ChildItems and ParentItem of PivotItem object dont seem to work

[Guest]

Hi there,

I need to retrive data from a pivot table that is not from an OLAP source. I
need to get the data for a item and then also display that data for the
parent of that item. Basically they want to see sales for a particular
product and then the sales of that product group. There are hundreds of
products so I need to be able to lookup its parent from the pivot table. Once
I have the parent I can retrieve data using getPivotData.

However I just get the message ""Unable to get the ParentItem property of
the PivotItem"

It says something similar if I try to get the ChildItems collection.

Any help is appreciated.

 

[Debra Dalgleish]

ParentItem and ChildItem are for grouped items. The following code
should work for adjacent column fields.

'==============================
Sub GetOuterFieldItem()
Dim pt As PivotTable
Dim pf As PivotField
Dim pi As PivotItem
Dim rngPG As Range

Set pt = ActiveSheet.PivotTables(1)
Set pf = pt.PivotFields("Product")
Set pi = pf.PivotItems("ProductA")
Set rngPG = Range(pi.LabelRange.Address).Offset(0, -1)

Debug.Print rngPG.PivotItem.Name

End Sub
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