According to Debra Dalgleish,
to make pivot items visible, you need to set the sort property for the field
to manual. Here is one of her postings on the topic with sample code. It
captures the current sort setting, sets the sort to manual, makes all items
visible and set the sort option back to its original setting.

Debra Dalgleish

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...&output=gplain

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The following code will capture and reset the sort order for each field:
'========================================
Sub PivotShowItemResetSort()
'For version 2000 -- show all items in field
'sort is set to Manual to prevent errors, e.g.
'unable to set Visible Property of PivotItem class
'returns sort order to previous setting
Dim pt As PivotTable
Dim pf As PivotField
Dim pi As PivotItem
Dim intASO As Integer

Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Application.DisplayAlerts = False
On Error Resume Next
For Each pt In ActiveSheet.PivotTables
For Each pf In pt.VisibleFields
intASO = pf.AutoSortOrder
pf.AutoSort xlManual, pf.SourceName
For Each pi In pf.PivotItems
If pi.Visible < True Then
pi.Visible = True
End If
Next pi
pf.AutoSort intASO, pf.SourceName
Next pf
Next pt
Application.DisplayAlerts = True
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub
'========================================

--
Regards,
Tom Ogilvy

"Goran" wrote in message
...
Hi,

What am I doing wrong... I have Pivot Table with all data and then I want
a
chart do display this, everything is fine, but now I have to buttons one
for
select and one for unselect,
Unselect works fine, but select does not....

Unselect macro:

Sub Reset_BB()

For i = 1 To
ActiveChart.PivotLayout.PivotFields("BB").PivotIte ms.Count - 1
With ActiveChart.PivotLayout.PivotFields("BB")
.PivotItems(i).Visible = False
End With
Next

End Sub

Select macro:

Sub Set_BB()

MsgBox "Diese Funktion ist leider noch nicht implementiert."
Exit Sub

Sheets("Grafik nach BB").Select
For i = 1 To
ActiveChart.PivotLayout.PivotFields("BB").PivotIte ms.Count - 1
With ActiveChart.PivotLayout.PivotFields("BB")
.PivotItems(i).Visible = True
End With
Next

End Sub


Thanx
/goran