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SelectPivotCells Method

Overloads

SelectPivotCells(String, IEnumerable<NxSelectionCell>, Boolean, Boolean)

Pivot table

Makes selections in the top or left dimension cells of a pivot table or in the data matrix. Only expanded dimensions can be selected.

Stacked table

Makes selections in the left dimension cells of a stacked table or in the data matrix.

Example of a pivot table

Please refer to Engine API reference for illustrations.

In the representation above:

Please refer to Engine API reference for table definition.

The member Change returns the handles of the objects that are updated following the selections.

qSuccess is set to true if the selections are successful and is set to false in the following cases:

* The object contains some invalid fields (fields that are not in the data model).

* The selection applies to a locked field.

* A range selection is performed and the parameter OneAndOnlyOne is set to true in the definition of the object.

SelectPivotCells(String, IEnumerable<NxSelectionCell>, Boolean, Boolean)

Pivot table

Makes selections in the top or left dimension cells of a pivot table or in the data matrix. Only expanded dimensions can be selected.

Stacked table

Makes selections in the left dimension cells of a stacked table or in the data matrix.

Example of a pivot table

Please refer to Engine API reference for illustrations.

In the representation above:

Please refer to Engine API reference for table definition.

The member Change returns the handles of the objects that are updated following the selections.

qSuccess is set to true if the selections are successful and is set to false in the following cases:

  • The object contains some invalid fields (fields that are not in the data model).
  • The selection applies to a locked field.
  • A range selection is performed and the parameter OneAndOnlyOne is set to true in the definition of the object.

Declaration

      bool SelectPivotCells([QixName("qPath")] string path, [QixName("qSelections")] IEnumerable<NxSelectionCell> selections, [QixName("qSoftLock")] bool softLock = false, [QixName("qDeselectOnlyOneSelected")] bool deselectOnlyOneSelected = false)
    

Parameters

Type Name Description
System.String path

Path to the definition of the object. For example, /qHyperCubeDef .

System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable<NxSelectionCell> selections

Information about the selections to perform.

System.Boolean softLock

Set to true to ignore locks; in that case, locked fields can be selected.

System.Boolean deselectOnlyOneSelected

Set this parameter to true to unselect the last single selected value. There must be only one selected value in the field. The default value is false.

Returns

Type Description
System.Boolean

Remarks

This method only applies to hypercubes that are not represented as straight tables. The parameter qMode in HyperCubeDef must be set either to P or K .

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