ParentItems Property

Microsoft Excel Visual Basic

Returns an object that represents either a single PivotTable item (a PivotItem object) or a collection of all the items (a PivotItems object) that are group parents in the specified field. The specified field must be a group parent of another field. Read-only.

expression.ParentItems(Index)

expression    Required. An expression that returns a PivotField object.

Index    Optional Variant. The number or name of the item to be returned (can be an array to specify more than one item).

Remarks

This property isn’t available for OLAP data sources.

Example

This example creates a list containing the names of all the items that are group parents in the field named "product".

Set nwSheet = Worksheets.Add
nwSheet.Activate
Set pvtTable = Worksheets("Sheet2").Range("A1").PivotTable
rw = 0
For Each pvtItem In pvtTable.PivotFields("product").ParentItems
    rw = rw + 1
    nwSheet.Cells(rw, 1).Value = pvtItem.Name
Next pvtItem