VIEW

In IBM® Cognos® Analysis for Microsoft Excel, a single VIEW function is used to specify the cube and cube element information.

Syntax

VIEW(cube, e1,e2[,...en])

The arguments are described in the following list.

cube
The name of the cube from which to retrieve data.
e1,...en
Either specific elements in the slice to be used as titles, or the string "!". The string "!" indicates that the corresponding dimension is a row or column in the view. These arguments can also be the names of aliases for dimension elements.

Example

VIEW("93sales",$B$2,$B$3,$B$4,"!","!")