Selecting Members

For reports, member selection is used to retrieve data and to determine how many members are displayed. You can also search for specific members.

Member selection tasks:

Table 5. Items from the Member Selection Web Page

Item

Description

Cancel button

Cancels changes made to the Member Selection dialog box

Find button

Used to select the type of search. A member can be searched for and displayed as the name of the member, the description or name in the alias table, and the name of the member and description/alias from a particular table. To search, click Find.

Find text box

Enter search criteria (not case sensitive)

Find icon

Displays members that match the search criteria

Use Wildcards

Enables use of wildcards in the Find text box (selected by default)

  • ? for one character

  • * for multiple characters

    Note:

    If search criteria includes a space, enclose the search phrase in double quotation marks. For example, *IC Offset* is "*IC Offset*". If the "*" wildcard is at the end only, for example, IC Offset*, quotation marks are not required.

Rows Per Page

Specifies the rows per page displayed on the member list (default is 20). If the number of members exceeds the number of rows, use buttons on the Edit Member Selection header to scroll through the rows:

Next Page button Next Page

Previous Page button Previous Page

Show Properties icon

Displays member properties

Expand All icon

Expands all row members of the hierarchy down to the child level

Collapse All icon

Collapses all rows