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Finally, you can pass an alias name from any alias table as the argument to IEssCube.
getMember and the method will successfully return the correct member. However, calls
to IEssMember.getName on the instance returned will not return the member name, but
rather will return the alias name passed as the argument.
// get the member object using the alias
member = cube.getMember("Cola");
Depending on how you intend to use the information from the object, this behav-
ior could cause you to get incorrect information. Here are the results from getting an
IEssMember using the alias. Note how the name property should contain the mem-
ber name, 100-10. Instead, t ...