Name Property

Name Property

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Returns or sets the name of the object. The name of a Range object is a Name object. For every other type of object, the name is a string.

The following table shows example values of the Name property and related properties, given an OLAP data source with the unique name "[Europe].[France].[Paris]" and a non-OLAP data source with the item name "Paris".

Property Value (OLAP data source) Value (non-OLAP data source)
Caption Paris Paris
Name [Europe].[France].[Paris] (read-only) Paris
SourceName [Europe].[France].[Paris] (read-only) (Same as SQL property value, read-only)
Value [Europe].[France].[Paris] (read-only) Paris

When specifying an index into the PivotItems collection, you can use the syntax shown in the following table.

Syntax (OLAP data source) Syntax (non-OLAP data source)
expression.PivotItems("[Europe].[France].[Paris]") expression.PivotItems("Paris")

When using the Item property to reference a specific member of a collection, you can use the text index names shown in the following table.

Name (OLAP data source) Name (non-OLAP data source)
[Europe].[France].[Paris] Paris