Jedox Spreadsheet Functions

Many functions can be implemented in Jedox Spreadsheets. We have them grouped in this article under the following topics:

Jedox Spreadsheet functions (without PALO functions)

Special spreadsheet functions

ODBC functions

Export behavior of functions that do not exist in Excel or that diﬀer from those in Excel

All PALO functions are described in the article Jedox/Palo OLAP Functions.

Note: Jedox Spreadsheets do not support R1C1 reference style. Only the A1 style is supported.

Jedox Spreadsheet Functions (without PALO functions)

Almost all Jedox Spreadsheet functions are programmed in the same way as their corresponding Excel counterparts. There are three exceptions:

The Jedox CELL() function has a few limitations compared

The Jedox function HYPERLINK() has more functionality than the function in Excel with the same name. You can read more about the HYPERLINK function in Jedox here.

The Jedox function INFO() returns other information than the function in Excel with the same name. You can read more about the INFO function in Jedox here.

Here is a list of all implemented Jedox spreadsheet functions (without PALO functions):

1 ABS ACOS ACOSH ACOT

2 ACOTH ADDRESS AND ARABIC

3 AREAS ASARRAY ASIN ASINH

4 ATAN ATAN2 ATANH AVEDEV

5 AVERAGE AVERAGEA AVERAGEIFS BASE

6 BESSELI BESSELJ BESSELK BESSELY

7 BETA.DIST BETA.INV BETADIST BINOM.DIST

8 BINOM.INV CEILING CELL1) (diﬀerences) CHAR

9 CHISQ.DIST.RT CHISQ.INV.RT CHISQ.TEST CHOOSE

10 CLEAN CODE COLUMN COLUMNS

11 COMBIN COMPLEX CONCATENATE CONCATENATE.RANGE

12 CONFIDENCE.NORM CONFIG.GET CORREL COS

13 COSH COT COTH COUNT

14 COUNTA COUNTBLANK COUNTIF COUNTIFS

15 COVARIANCE.P CSC CSCH CURRENTUSER

16 DATE DATEVALUE DAVERAGE DAY

17 DB DCOUNT DCOUNTA DDB

18 DECIMAL DEGREES DELTA DEVSQ

19 DGET DMAX DMIN DPRODUCT

21 DVARP EDATE ENCODEURL EOMONTH

22 ERF ERF.PRECISE ERFC ERFC.PRECISE

23 ERROR.MSG ERROR.TYPE EVEN EXACT

24 EXP EXPON.DIST F.DIST.RT F.INV.RT

25 F.TEST FACT FACTDOUBLE FALSE

26 FILTERXML FIND FISHER FISHERINV

27 FIXED FLOOR FORECAST FORMULATEXT

28 FREQUENCY FV GAMMA.DIST GAMMA.INV

29 GAMMALN GCD GEOMEAN GESTEP

30 GROWTH HARMEAN HIDECOLUMN HIDEROW

31 HLOOKUP HOUR HYPERLINK (more functionality!) HYPGEOM.DIST

32 HYPGEOMDIST IF IFERROR IFNA

33 IMABS IMAGINARY IMARCCOS IMARCCOSH

34 IMARCCOT IMARCCOTH IMARCCSC IMARCCSCH

35 IMARCSEC IMARCSECH IMARCSIN IMARCSINH

36 IMARCTAN IMARCTANH IMARGUMENT IMCONJUGATE

37 IMCOS IMCOSH IMCOT IMCOTH

38 IMCSC IMCSCH IMDIV IMEXP

39 IMINV IMLN IMLOG10 IMLOG2

40 IMNEG IMNORM IMPOLAR IMPOWER

41 IMPRODUCT IMREAL IMSEC IMSECH

42 IMSIN IMSINH IMSQRT IMSUB

43 IMSUM IMTAN IMTANH INDEX

44 INDEX INDIRECT INFO (diﬀerent parameters!) INT

45 INTERCEPT IRR ISBLANK ISERR

46 ISERROR ISEVEN ISFORMULA ISLOGICAL

47 ISNA ISNONTEXT ISNUMBER ISODD

48 ISPMT ISREF ISTEXT KURT

49 LARGE LCM LEFT LEN

50 LINEST LN LOCALIZE LOG

51 LOG10 LOGEST LOGNORM.DIST LOGNORM.INV

52 LOGNORMDIST LOOKUP LOOKUP LOWER

53 MATCH MAX MAXA MAXIFS

54 MDETERM MEDIAN MID MIN

56 MIRR MMULT MOD MODE.SNGL

57 MONTH MROUND MULTINOMIAL MUNIT

58 N NA NEGBINOM.DIST NEGBINOMDIST

59 NETWORKDAYS NOEXPAND NORM.DIST NORM.INV

60 NORM.S.DIST NORM.S.INV NORMDIST NOT

61 NOW NPER NPV ODBCCOUNT

62 ODBCDATA ODBCERROR ODBCEXEC ODBCINIT

63 ODD OFFSET OR PEARSON

64 PERCENTILE.INC PERCENTRANK.INC PERMUT PI

65 PMT POISSON.DIST POWER PROB

66 PRODUCT PRODUCTIFS PROPER PV

67 QUARTILE.INC QUOTIENT RADIANS RAND

68 RANDBETWEEN RANK.EQ RATE REGRESSION

69 REPLACE REPT RIGHT ROMAN

70 ROUND ROUNDDOWN ROUNDUP ROW

71 ROWS RSQ SEARCH SEC

72 SECH SECOND SERIESSUM SHEETNAME

73 SHOWPICT SIGN SIN SINH

74 SKEW SLN SLOPE SMALL

75 SQRT SQRTPI STANDARDIZE STDEV.P

76 STDEV.S STDEVA STDEVIFS STDEVPA

77 STDEVPIFS STEYX SUBSTITUTE SUBTOTAL

78 SUM SUMIF SUMIFS SUMPRODUCT

79 SUMSQ SUMX2MY2 SUMX2PY2 SUMXMY2

80 SYD T T.DIST.2T T.DIST.RT

81 T.INV.2T T.TEST TAN TANH

82 TDIST TEXT TIME TIMEVALUE

83 TODAY TRANSPOSE TREND TRIM

84 TRIMMEAN TRUE TRUNC TYPE

85 UNFORMATTED UPPER USERGROUPS USERLOCALE

86 VALUE VAR.P VAR.S VARA

87 VARIFS VARPA VARPIFS VLOOKUP

88 WEBSERVICE WEEKDAY WEEKNUM WEIBULL.DIST

89 XOR YEAR Z.TEST

Copyright © Jedox AG 1) The Jedox spreadsheet function CELL(info_type,reference) has following differences to the corresponding Excel function: All info_types: as reference a XLSX file accepts also a range of cells, a WSS file accepts only one cell. All info_types: in a XLSX file the parameter “info_type” can also be written in big letters. A WSS file accepts this parameter only in small letters. The parameter „info_type“ is not yet translated: In all locations you must use the English names of this parameter: address, col, color, contents, filename, format, parentheses, prefix, protect, row, type and width. Info_type “filename” returns in a XLSX file path+filename, in a WSS file is only filename returned.

2. Special Spreadsheet Functions

In addition to the Jedox/PALO functions in category Jedox (implemented in Jedox Web and in Jedox Excel Add-in), Jedox spreadsheets (only in Jedox Web) have specially programmed functions for applications and for database access:

ASARRAY() Takes a series of (unspeciﬁed number of) arguments and returns their values as an array. Can be used to make functions like Microchart or SUMIF work when they reference cells in DynaRanges.

HIDECOLUMN(cellreference) Hides column if cellreference is TRUE. Cellreference is TRUE, if ABS(cellreference)>0. Please use a cellreference or a function which returns dynamically TRUE / FALSE. Hardcoded arguments like HIDECOLUMN(TRUE) resp. HIDECOLUMN(FALSE) don’t work dynamically!

HIDEROW(cellreference) Hides row if cellreference is TRUE. Cellreference is TRUE, if ABS(cellreference)>0. Please use a cellreference or a function which returns dynamically TRUE / FALSE. Hardcoded arguments like HIDEROW(TRUE) resp. HIDEROW(FALSE) don’t work dynamically!

Note: Due to the cell design in Jedox Web, cell borders for which adjacent columns or rows are hidden with a HIDE function are not displayed on the left or on the top.

NOEXPAND(reference)

SHOWPICT(url,name,title) Displays an image within a cell. The image is fetched from a URL and shown in the cell in which the formula is used. You can also preﬁx the image path with @ to reference an image in the Report Designer; for example, =SHOWPICT("@//Default/Public Files/icons/settings.png")

2.2 Function Category: Information

CONFIG.GET(“Key”) Returns the value of the speciﬁed key from the entries of Jedox Web Administration/Settings, e.g. =CONFIG.GET("studio.files.default_storage_path").

CURRENTUSER() Returns the current user.

ERROR.MSG(cellreference) This function returns a detailed error message for OLAP functions or macro functions when pointed to a cell containing such a function.

Examples: Entry in A1: =PALO.DATAC("localhost/Demo","xx","All Products","Europe","Year","All Years","All

Entry in A2: =ERROR.MSG(A1) Returned message: Libpalo ng : Cube not found: Couldn’t resolve cube name “xx” in database “Demo”.

SHEETNAME() Returns the name of the worksheet on which the formula is used.

USERGROUPS() Returns the groups of the current user.

USERLOCALE() Returns the language setting of the current user.

2.3 Function Category: Text

CONCATENATE.RANGE(cellrange,string_delimiter) Concatenates entries of cellrangrange, separated with string_delimiter (optional).

LOCALIZE(“Text”) Returns the translation of “Text” in the language which is used in Jedox Web if there exists the translation in localization tool.

UNFORMATTED(text)

2.4 Function Category: Engineering

There are several functions for complex numbers: IMARCCOS, IMARCCOSH, IMARCCOT, IMARCCOTH, IMARCCSC, IMARCCSCH, IMARCSEC, IMARCSECH, IMARCSIN, IMARCSINH, IMARCTAN, IMARCTANH, IMINV, IMNEG, IMNORM, IMPOLAR, IMTANH.

3. ODBC Functions

With ODBC functions you can read databases that have an ODBC interface.

Before you can import data from an ODBC database, you must register the database source name(DSN). In addition, the computer on which Jedox Web is installed must have an installation of the “Data Connectivity Components” from Microsoft (in a search engine you can ﬁnd these components under the given name to download). For Linux installations, no additional components are needed.

You can create ODBC connections (using Windows System DSNs) in Connection Manager. As an example, Jedox Setup installs the ODBC connection

Under Tools – ODBC query you can access a SQL query editor with preview for the ODBC function ODBCEXEC. Only those ODBC connections that are established as such in Administration/Connections can be edited.

You can use ODBC results directly as source for ComboBoxes, or display results comfortably in Dynaranges.

Function Category: Database

ODBCINIT(dsn,username,password) Initializes a connection to a database using an existing system DSN(Database Source Name)

Note: Using empty strings for user and password will set them as default to the DSN deﬁned user and password (where appropriate).

ODBCEXEC(odbcinit,sql_querytext) Executes a SQL query through a previously initialized ODBC connection. Deﬁne the SQL statement using the syntax of the database accordingly. One or more ODBCEXEC functions can use the same ODBC connection in parallel.

odbcinit Cell of the ODBCINIT() function sql_querytext SQL query

ODBCDATA(odbcexec,row_number,column_index)

Copyright © Jedox AG The function returns the result of an executed SQL query. The ﬁrst parameter is the cell address that contains the ODBCEXEC function. The result of ODBCEXEC is organized as an array of rows and columns. Use row_number “1” and column_index “1” to display the ﬁrst value.

odbcexec Cell of the ODBCEXEC() function row_number Row of the result array column_index Column of the result array

ODBCCOUNT(odbcexec) Displays the number of rows returned by an executed SQL query.

odbcexec Cell of the ODBCEXEC() function

ODBCERROR(odbcinit) Displays the error code returned by an executed SQL query. In general, a positive value means success, a negative failure.

odbcinit Cell of the ODBCINIT() function

4. Behavior of functions that do not exist in Excel or that diﬀer from those in Excel

After an export the following Jedox Spreadsheet functions return

ASARRAY CONCATENATE.RANGE CONFIG.GET CURRENTUSER

ERROR.MSG IMARCCOS IMARCCOSH IMARCCOT

IMARCCOTH IMARCCSC IMARCCSCH IMARCSEC

IMARCSECH IMARCSIN IMARCSINH IMARCTAN

IMARCTANH IMCSCH IMINV IMNEG

IMNORM IMPOLAR IMTANH LOCALIZE

MAXIFS MINIFS NOEXPAND ODBCCOUNT

ODBCDATA ODBCERROR ODBCEXEC ODBCINIT

PRODUCTIFS REGRESSION SHEETNAME SHOWPICT

STDEVIFS STDEVPIFS UNFORMATTED USERGROUPS

USERLOCALE VARIFS VARPIFS

CELL() For this functions there are no restrictions after an export to Excel.

HIDECOLUMN() and HIDEROW() The functions HIDECOLUMN and HIDEROW also do not exist in Excel, but they do not return #NAME. Instead they are converted to PALO.HIDECOLUMN and PALO.HIDEROW for internal reasons, but these functions are not supported in Excel.

HYPERLINK() The Jedox Spreadsheet function HYPERLINK supports more arguments than in Excel: After export to Excel, the HYPERLINK function supports a maximum of two arguments.

Copyright © Jedox AG INFO() The function INFO has partially the same arguments as in Excel, but some arguments don’t exist in Excel. If the exported argument of the INFO function doesn’t exist in Excel, you will receive #VALUE in the corresponding cell.

Appendix

Supported data types in the SQL server

The following list shows whether and how a SQL data type will be transferred to Jedox Spreadsheet:

Bigint -> number Binary(n) -> string Bit -> boolean char(n) -> string Date -> string Datetime -> number Datetime2(n) -> string datetimeoﬀset(7) -> string decimal(n, decimals) -> number ﬂoat -> number geography -> not supported , users should cast it to string in sql queries

Copyright © Jedox AG geometry -> not supported , users should cast it to string in sql queries hierarchyid -> not supported , users should cast it to string in sql queries Image ->string Int -> number Money -> number Nchar(n) -> string Ntext -> string numeric(n, decimals) -> numeric nvarchar(n) -> string nvarchar(MAX) -> string, max. size of 64000 Real -> numeric Smalldatetime -> number Smallint -> numeric Smallmoney -> numeric sql_variant -> not supported , users should cast it to string in sql queries Text -> not supported , users should cast it to string in sql queries Time(n) -> not supported , users should cast it to string in sql queries Timestamp -> string Tinyint -> number Uniqueidentiﬁer -> not supported , users should cast it to string in sql queries varbinary(n) -> string varbinary(MAX) -> string, max. size of 64000 varchar(n) -> string varchar(NAX) -> string, max. size of 64000