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Application-defined or object-defined error with Excel Slicer


In a KPI dashboard on course attendance, I have a dropdown list with course names. A user picks a course and a macro must select the picked course in a slicer (connected to a cube).

When using the macro recorder, I see that the recorder uses a kind of index to pick up the course the user wants, and not the name (&[18] in my example):

ActiveWorkbook.SlicerCaches("Slicer_Course2").VisibleSlicerItemsList = Array("[Course].[Course].&[18]")

I want to browse through the different slicer items and only select the item which corresponds to the choice of the user in my dropdown list, but based on the name of the course. For example, if user chooses the course "Introduction To Slicer":

Sub TestSclicer()
Dim i

ActiveWorkbook.SlicerCaches("Slicer_Courses2").ClearManualFilter

For i = 1 To ActiveWorkbook.SlicerCaches("Slicer_Courses2").SlicerItems.Count
     If ActiveWorkbook.SlicerCaches("Slicer_Courses2").SlicerItems(i).Name = "Introduction To Slicer" Then
        ActiveWorkbook.SlicerCaches("Slicer_Courses2").SlicerItems(i).Selected = True
    Else
        ActiveWorkbook.SlicerCaches("Slicer_Courses2").SlicerItems(i).Selected = False
    End If
Next
End Sub

It bugs on ActiveWorkbook.SlicerCaches("Slicer_Courses2").SlicerItems.Count with message

application-defined of object-defined error


Solution

  • OK, I think that you can't get SlicerItems straightly from SlicerCaches according to this reference.

    So, you got error. Here my suggestion, try as follow:

    Sub TestSclicer()
    
    Dim sC As SlicerCache
    Dim sI As SlicerItem
    Dim index As Integer
    
    Set sC = ActiveWorkbook.SlicerCaches("Slicer_Courses2")
    
    sC.ClearManualFilter
    
    For index = 1 To sC.SlicerCacheLevels.count
    
        For Each sI In sC.SlicerCacheLevels(index).SlicerItems
    
            If sI.Name = "Introduction To Slicer" Then
                sI.Selected = True
            Else
                sI.Selected = False
            End If
    
        Next sI
    
    Next index 
    
    End Sub