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PivotItem.SourceName Property

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Excel Developer Reference

Returns a Variant value that represents the specified object’s name as it appears in the original source data for the specified PivotTable report.

Syntax

expression.SourceName

expression   A variable that represents a PivotItem object.

Remarks

The value of this property might be different from the current item name if the user renamed the item after creating the PivotTable report.

The following table shows example values of the SourceName 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, as shown in the following table.

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

Example

This example displays the original name (the name from the source database) of the item that contains the active cell.

Visual Basic for Applications 
  Worksheets("Sheet1").Activate
ActiveSheet.PivotTables(1).PivotSelect "1998", xlDataAndLabel
MsgBox "The original item name is " & _
    ActiveCell.PivotItem.SourceName

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