Symptom
The setting OperatorContainsPattern of Analysis Office can be used to define whether the operators Contains Pattern (CP) and Does Not Contain Pattern (!CP) should be enabled for filtering and prompting.
When setting the OperatorContainsPattern to TRUE, the operators CP and !CP are only available when calling the filter dialog from the variable screen, but they are not available when calling the filter dialog of a range selection directly from the crosstab or from the Design Panel.
Environment
SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office
Cause
This is the intended behavior and it is working as designed.
Resolution
As described in chapter "To filter data by member", the operators CP and !CP are only available when calling the filter dialog from the prompts dialog.
See Also
Keywords
add to filter, by range, filter by range, cp, !cp, wildcard , KBA , BI-RA-AO-XLA , Excel Addin , Problem