HIER_ORDER

HIER_ORDER sorts the members of a dimension with children immediately after their parents, and returns a sequential number for each member.

Return Value

NUMBER

Syntax

HIER_ORDER ( 
   [member_expression] [WITHIN]
   {DIMENSION dimension_id | HIERARCHY hierarchy_id} )

Arguments

member_expression

Identifies a single dimension member within the hierarchy used for the calculation. If this optional argument is specified, then the result does not vary across dimension members.

dimension_id

The dimension over which the values are calculated using the default hierarchy.

hierarchy_id

The hierarchy over which the values are calculated. If dimension_id is used instead, the default hierarchy is used.

Example

This example orders the values of the Time dimension:

HIER_ORDER(DIMENSION "TIME")

Time	Order
2006	138
Q1.06	139
JAN-06	140
FEB-06	141
MAR-06	142
Q2.06	143
APR-06	144
MAY-06	145
JUN-06	146
Q3.06	147
JUL-06	148
AUG-06	149
SEP-06	150
Q4.06	151
OCT-06	152
NOV-06	153
DEC-06	154

The next example returns 78 as the order number of Business World in the Market hierarchy of the Customer dimension.

HIER_ORDER('BUSN WRLD' WITHIN HIERARCHY CUSTOMER.MARKET)