Symbolic Names in the Report Writer
A symbolic name can represent the row or column coordinate for a single cell or a range of cells within a report. The system uses cells to determine locations within the column-row matrix of a report. For more information, see Defining Cells .
Symbolic names are defined within sets. You can assign symbolic names to:
Set lines
Set line symbolic names refer to a value or a set name in a set line. For basic, data, and single-dimension sets, you define set line symbolic names using the
Symbolic Name
field on the
Create and Change Set:Basic Entries
screens.
Set line symbolic names can also be used in multi-dimension sets, for example, for set variables that have been entered directly into a multi-dimension set. You enter symbolic names for set lines under
Create Set: Basic Entries
and
Change Set: Basic Entries
. This way you can address the highest row total in cell calculations.
Note
The symbolic name that you assign to a set line in a multi-dimension set does not overwrite existing header symbolic names, which have been defined in the set entered in the multi-dimension set. Instead, two symbolic names exist for the set line and the set header.
An entire set
Set header symbolic names refer to all values within a set. For basic, data, and single-dimension sets, you define symbolic names for the entire set using the
Symbolic name
field on the
Create and Change Set: Header
screens.