String Expressions (MDX)

A string literal (a double quote character, followed by any characters, followed by another double quote character). For example: "label" or "my property"

A numeric literal.

An expression that uses an MDX function to return a string. These functions include:

• PROPERTIES, which returns the value of a property of a member. For example: homed.city.magnolia.PROPERTIES("Population")

  See the reference section Intrinsic Properties for intrinsic properties that you can use.

• IIF, which returns one of two values, depending on the value of a given logical expression.

• LOOKUP, which looks up a given key in a term list and returns a substitute string.

• %LOOKUP, which returns one value from a term list.

An expression that refers to a string-valued measure. For example, suppose that you define a calculated member as follows:

CREATE MEMBER patients.measures.stringtest AS 'IIF(MEASURES.[avg test score]<60, "low","high")'

Then the expression MEASURES.stringtest is a string expression.

An expression that uses the MDX concatenation operator (+) to combine other string expressions. For example:

"string 1 " + "string 2"

For another example:

"Pop: " + homed.city.magnolia.PROPERTIES("Population")

A reference to a pivot variable that contains a string value. To refer to a pivot variable, use the following syntax:

$VARIABLE.variablename

Where variablename is the logical variable name. Do not enclose this expression with square brackets. This syntax is not case-sensitive; nor is the pivot variable name.

For information on defining pivot variables, see Defining and Using Pivot Variables.

As an argument to the ORDER function or to the PROPERTIES function.

As an element of a set.

As the definition of a calculated member (in this case, a measure).