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DateMember

Owned by Gvido
Last updated: Jun 30, 2023
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Finds the Time dimension hierarchy level member from the date

Syntax

Time_Level_Expression.DateMember('Date')

Arguments

Time_Level_Expression

MDX expression that returns Time dimension level.

Date

MDX expression that returns a date

Examples

[Time].[Month].Datemember('Jan 10 2021')returns Jan 2021 based on the provided calendar date. Will work with the default hierarchy from Time dimension.

[Time].[Month].Datemember('Jan 15 2021')returns Jan 2021 based on the provided calendar date. Will work with the default hierarchy from Time dimension.

[Time].[Month].Datemember([Measures].[Imported cf date])returns the month for particular imported date value.

[Time].[Day].Datemember('Jan 15 2021')returns Jan 15, 2021 based on the provided date

[Time].Currenthierarchy.Levels("Day").Datemember('Jan 15 2021')returns Jan 15, 2021 based on the provided date. Will work with any hierarchy from Time dimension, as long as it has level name "Day"

[Time].[Year].Datemember('Jan 20 2021')returns the year 2021 based on the provided date

 

Can be used with another function when creating a measure (with correct output format) to return the start date of the period (defined in the level) of the member that is found by DateMember function

[Time].[Month].DateMember('Jan 10 2021').Startdate

This example will return the Jan 1, 2021

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