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CUBEMEMBER

Unsupported (not recognized)

Category: Cube · Last tested 2026-09-01

Real compatibility results for the CUBEMEMBER function: executed in Excel for the web, Google Sheets and LibreOffice Calc, with desktop Excel behavior from Microsoft’s official documentation (we do not run desktop Excel — Excel for the web is a different application and is executed separately). Syntax and links to that documentation are below.

Support matrix

EngineDocumentedLive-testedVerdict
Excel (desktop)Yes No — documented only n/a
Excel for the web— Yes (recalc, 2026-09-01) Unsupported (not recognized)
Google SheetsNo Yes (Drive import, 2026-08-31) Unsupported (not recognized)
LibreOffice CalcNo Yes (25.8.7.3, 2026-08-31) Unsupported (not recognized)

LibreOffice version history

We executed the same test cases under each LibreOffice release to show exactly when CUBEMEMBER’s support changed — not documentation claims, real results.

LibreOffice versionVerdictTested
24.2.0.3 Unsupported (not recognized) 2026-08-31
24.8.7.2 Unsupported (not recognized) 2026-08-31
25.2.0.3 Unsupported (not recognized) 2026-08-31
25.8.7.3 Unsupported (not recognized) 2026-08-31

Why isn't CUBEMEMBER working in LibreOffice?

LibreOffice Calc does not implement CUBEMEMBER as of 25.8.7.3 — in our executed tests it returns a #NAME? (unrecognized function) error. This is not a typo or a settings problem, and saving the file as .xlsx does not change it: the function simply isn’t available yet. The same formula is documented for Excel. Watch the LibreOffice version support page — we re-run every test on each new release, so it will flip to Supported here as soon as it lands.

Why isn’t CUBEMEMBER working in Google Sheets?

Google Sheets does not implement CUBEMEMBER: we imported the formula into Sheets on 2026-08-31 and every case came back #NAME? (unrecognized function). Sheets is a rolling service with no version to pin, so this is a statement about the service on that date, and Google’s own function list does not document it either. Rewrite the formula with a documented Sheets equivalent — see the Excel ↔ Sheets equivalents table.

Executed test cases

Excel for the web (executed 2026-09-01 via OneDrive recalculation)

These values come from Excel for the web, not from desktop Excel. They are two different implementations of the calculation engine, and this run measured only the web one: the corpus was uploaded to OneDrive as .xlsx, recalculated by Excel for the web on open, and downloaded again for readback. Excel for the web is a rolling service with no pinnable version, so the run is identified by its date. Where a value here disagrees with the Expected column — which is Microsoft’s documentation of the desktop product — we cannot tell you whether the web engine diverges from the desktop one or the documentation is wrong about both, because we do not run desktop Excel.

FormulaDescriptionResultExpectedVerdict
=CUBEMEMBER("NoSuchConnection","[Time].[Fiscal].[2004]") Existence probe only: the member-lookup form from Microsoft's own example, against a connection name that does not exist in this workbook. No OLAP connection can exist in a flat workbook, so this records what the engine actually returns rather than asserting a documented value #NAME?
Provenance

NOT EXECUTABLE AS DOCUMENTED, and deliberately recorded as a probe rather than a support claim. Microsoft documents this function as returning data from an OLAP cube reached through a named workbook connection -- the CUBEKPIMEMBER page states outright that the cube functions are "supported only when the workbook is connected to a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services or later data source". A flat .xlsx carries no such connection, and neither LibreOffice Calc nor Google Sheets can supply one, so the documented behaviour cannot be reproduced by this harness in any engine. Microsoft's page documents that "if the connection name is not a valid workbook connection stored in the workbook, CUBEMEMBER returns a #NAME? error value", and the same for an OLAP server that is not running. The trap this case exists to avoid: Excel itself documents that an invalid connection name yields #NAME?, which is the SAME token an engine emits for a function it has never heard of. A #NAME? here therefore does NOT distinguish "present but unconnected" from "absent", and this case is recorded with no asserted expected value so it can never be scored as documented behaviour. What the run does establish is recorded separately: probing all four pinned LibreOffice builds (24.2.0.3, 24.8.7.2, 25.2.0.3, 25.8.7.3) with the plain name, the _xlfn. storage form and the COM.MICROSOFT. add-in form returned #NAME? for all three spellings on every build, which is the signature of a name the engine does not implement at all rather than of a missing data connection

Error

Google Sheets (executed 2026-08-31 via Drive import)

Google Sheets is a rolling service with no pinnable version, so this run is identified by its date. The corpus was imported to Drive as .xlsx, recalculated by Sheets, and exported back for readback.

FormulaDescriptionResultExpectedVerdict
=CUBEMEMBER("NoSuchConnection","[Time].[Fiscal].[2004]") Existence probe only: the member-lookup form from Microsoft's own example, against a connection name that does not exist in this workbook. No OLAP connection can exist in a flat workbook, so this records what the engine actually returns rather than asserting a documented value #NAME?
Provenance

NOT EXECUTABLE AS DOCUMENTED, and deliberately recorded as a probe rather than a support claim. Microsoft documents this function as returning data from an OLAP cube reached through a named workbook connection -- the CUBEKPIMEMBER page states outright that the cube functions are "supported only when the workbook is connected to a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services or later data source". A flat .xlsx carries no such connection, and neither LibreOffice Calc nor Google Sheets can supply one, so the documented behaviour cannot be reproduced by this harness in any engine. Microsoft's page documents that "if the connection name is not a valid workbook connection stored in the workbook, CUBEMEMBER returns a #NAME? error value", and the same for an OLAP server that is not running. The trap this case exists to avoid: Excel itself documents that an invalid connection name yields #NAME?, which is the SAME token an engine emits for a function it has never heard of. A #NAME? here therefore does NOT distinguish "present but unconnected" from "absent", and this case is recorded with no asserted expected value so it can never be scored as documented behaviour. What the run does establish is recorded separately: probing all four pinned LibreOffice builds (24.2.0.3, 24.8.7.2, 25.2.0.3, 25.8.7.3) with the plain name, the _xlfn. storage form and the COM.MICROSOFT. add-in form returned #NAME? for all three spellings on every build, which is the signature of a name the engine does not implement at all rather than of a missing data connection

Error

LibreOffice Calc 25.8.7.3 (tested 2026-08-31)

FormulaDescriptionResultExpectedVerdict
=CUBEMEMBER("NoSuchConnection","[Time].[Fiscal].[2004]") Existence probe only: the member-lookup form from Microsoft's own example, against a connection name that does not exist in this workbook. No OLAP connection can exist in a flat workbook, so this records what the engine actually returns rather than asserting a documented value #NAME?
Provenance

NOT EXECUTABLE AS DOCUMENTED, and deliberately recorded as a probe rather than a support claim. Microsoft documents this function as returning data from an OLAP cube reached through a named workbook connection -- the CUBEKPIMEMBER page states outright that the cube functions are "supported only when the workbook is connected to a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services or later data source". A flat .xlsx carries no such connection, and neither LibreOffice Calc nor Google Sheets can supply one, so the documented behaviour cannot be reproduced by this harness in any engine. Microsoft's page documents that "if the connection name is not a valid workbook connection stored in the workbook, CUBEMEMBER returns a #NAME? error value", and the same for an OLAP server that is not running. The trap this case exists to avoid: Excel itself documents that an invalid connection name yields #NAME?, which is the SAME token an engine emits for a function it has never heard of. A #NAME? here therefore does NOT distinguish "present but unconnected" from "absent", and this case is recorded with no asserted expected value so it can never be scored as documented behaviour. What the run does establish is recorded separately: probing all four pinned LibreOffice builds (24.2.0.3, 24.8.7.2, 25.2.0.3, 25.8.7.3) with the plain name, the _xlfn. storage form and the COM.MICROSOFT. add-in form returned #NAME? for all three spellings on every build, which is the signature of a name the engine does not implement at all rather than of a missing data connection

Error

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