Comments on: QlikView Buttons – When, Why and How

By: Steve Dark

Steve Dark — Tue, 26 Sep 2017 16:07:03 +0000

In reply to Paul Nockolds. Thanks for your comment Paul. Glad it works well for you.

By: Paul Nockolds

Paul Nockolds — Tue, 26 Sep 2017 15:34:17 +0000

This is great – thanks Steve. This is helping me tidy up a few messy looking sheets with too many objects at once into something much nicer for the user to look at and work with.

By: Steve Dark

Steve Dark — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 10:13:55 +0000

In reply to Liane Elon. Hi Liane, The great news is that you don't need to have a button, you simply need to add two list boxes to the sheet, one with continents and the other with countries. QlikView's associative engine will then sort the rest. IF you require a button for Europe as well as the list box, you want to attach a 'Select In Field' action, set the Field to Continent and the Search String to Europe. Hope that helps!

By: Liane Elon

Liane Elon — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 08:35:34 +0000

Hi Steve,
I’m new on QV and wondering if you could help me.
I’m trying to make a button that filters a list box.
I have a table which consists of continent and countries. I wish that whenever you select the Europe button it filters only the countries that are in Europe.
have any idea how can I do that?

thanks in advance for the help!

By: Steve Dark

Steve Dark — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 08:20:05 +0000

In reply to Julius.

Hi Julius, I’m not aware of how to change the tab of a container from a macro – not that I’ve tried either. This solution, with variables and show conditions, is an elegant alternative to containers.

By: Julius

Julius — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 04:42:42 +0000

i have question.

let’s say i have 5 chart in container(A, B, C, D, E), my requirement is: i have a button which the user click that button it will be directed to showing the chart E in that container. could you please help me how to do that?

Thanks.

By: Fernando Jara

Fernando Jara — Fri, 15 Jul 2016 19:07:40 +0000

Thanks, it’s very usefull for me.

By: Steve Dark

Steve Dark — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 21:02:00 +0000

In reply to sami Safraou.

Hi Sami,

There is a lot you can do by firing off macros from a button – but as these do not work 100% of the time (particularly in Ajax) I try to avoid them. Sadly you can not control the stack/group option with a variable, so that is not an option. The best bet in the case of group vs. stacked is to show and hide two different chart objects – there is an example of that in the demo app. Often you can simply change a variable to make things happen – for instance change the expression on a chart using a variable.

Hope that helps.

By: sami Safraou

sami Safraou — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 15:02:16 +0000

Hello Steve, I was wondering if it’s possible to change a chart’s properties with a button, for example changing the style of a chart and go from stacked to grouped for a histogram
thank you in advance

By: Steve Dark

Steve Dark — Tue, 26 Apr 2016 06:31:07 +0000

In reply to alipeqal.

Hi – you can get absolutely any shape of button, by using an image with a transparent background. The clickable area of a button like this will always be rectangular though – so try and pick images that fill the frame reasonably well. If you have objects or buttons where things overlap the transparent areas of your buttons you will need to ensure that you set the layer properties correctly to get the correct functionality.

Hope that helps…