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IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Converting an Alias Back to the Element Name in TurboIntegrator

 

December 21, 2021

By Lee Lazarow

Have you ever needed to convert an alias back to the original element name within an IBM Planning Analytics TurboIntegrator script? Maybe you have a data source where the value entails an alias but further logic references the element code.

You can do this by unconverting an element via the DimensionElementPrincipalName function. The DimensionElementPrincipalName function returns the true element code (called the “principal name”) of an element. The function allows you to reference the element using any allowable reference … the original element or any alias value.

The syntax of the command is:

DimensionElementPrincipalName (dimName, elementName)

For example:

The following details exist in a dimension called Names:

IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks: Converting an Alias

DimensionElementPrincipalName (‘Names’, ‘Johnny’) will result in the value ‘John’

This can be used in conjunction with logic in your load script. If I have a source file with a person’s name, then I don’t know if the data will include John or Johnny. I can therefore create logic to convert the input value back to the element name via the following code snippet:

IF (DimensionElementPrincipalName (‘Names’, InputValue) @= ‘John’)

Note: the InputValue would be written as a CELLGETx pull

The use of this function will allow you to have a single point of reference to an element, no matter how many aliases exist.

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