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Set modifiers with dollar-sign expansions

Variables and other dollar-sign expansions can be used in set expressions.

Examples:  

Examples and results
Example Result
sum( {$<Year = {$(#vLastYear)}>} Sales )

Returns the sales for the previous year in relation to current selection. Here, a variable vLastYear containing the relevant year is used in a dollar-sign expansion.

sum( {$<Year = {$(#=Only(Year)-1)}>} Sales )

Returns the sales for the previous year in relation to current selection. Here, a dollar-sign expansion is used to calculate previous year.

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