Special characters in picklist in Excel

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vladino
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Special characters in picklist in Excel

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Hi all,
we have to use special characters in picklist attribute. One of our picklists should look like this:
static:1-:1:1+:2-:2:2+...

From cube viewer it is working correctly, but in Perspectives i can see only numbers without "-" and "+" signs. We have tried quotes but then we saw zeros instead of numbers, ie. when used "1-":"1":"1+" in picklist, in Excel there were three zeros.

How to fix this?

Thanks,
Vladino
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Re: Special characters in picklist in Excel

Post by tomok »

Did you define your attribute as string or numeric?
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vladino
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Re: Special characters in picklist in Excel

Post by vladino »

Hi,
attribute "picklist" is defined as string.
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