Category Archives: End User Experience

Better Current Selections Box to Translate & Hide Fields (QlikTip #49)

By Stefan Walther Comments closed
Also posted in Design & Layout, Extensions, Integration, QlikView 11

This article demonstrates how to overcome some limitations of the standard Current Selections Box of QlikView: Translating field values, translating “hardcoded” labels of the Current Selections Box, hiding specific fields and customizing the icons shown. The solution is based on a QlikView object extension I have created, called "Better Current SelectionsBox".

A Comprehensive List of QlikView Object Extensions (01/2013)

By Stefan Walther Comments closed
Also posted in Charts, Design & Layout, Extensions, Integration, Nice Read, QlikTips

QlikView Extensions are great, but it is not easy to find a list of all QlikView extensions available, so I have created this list of freely accessible QlikView extensions (all of them available for download plus source code).

OnOffSwitch QlikView Extension

By Stefan Walther Comments closed
Also posted in Extensions

"OnOffSwitch" is a QlikView object extension to enable the user to toggle the value of a variable in iPad style.

Nice read: “List boxes are all right”

By Stefan Walther Comments closed
Also posted in Design & Layout, Nice Read

Just wanted to point you to a very insteresting article by Stephen Radmond from “Qlik Tips”. He explains why it absolutely makes sense placing list boxes and selections in general on the right side of the screen … especially if you are designing your QlikView applications for an iPad. Imagine the difference: becomes (Images copied […]

Posting Data from QlikView to Other Systems using the Ajax Client

By Stefan Walther Comments closed
Also posted in Extensions, Integration

There are many scenarios where it is necessary to process QlikView data with other systems. There are many approaches and examples available how this can be achieved using Macros (based on the QlikView IE-Plugin) but this article cover how you can realize such a requirement by using only the QlikView Ajax client. Scenarios Let’s first […]

Formatting QlikView Data the Web Way (qTemplate Object Extension)

By Stefan Walther Comments closed
Also posted in Design & Layout, Extensions

I recently came across some projects with some special layout requirements. While it would certainly be possible to create a separate QlikView extension for every requirement I wanted to find a more generic an reusable approach for rendering QlikView content. The goal was to bring some capabilities into QlikView (using an extension) which makes formatting […]

QlikTip #41: Exporting Current Selections for Excel Export in Ajax/Mobile Client

By Stefan Walther Comments closed
Also posted in QlikTips, QV Server/Publisher

In one of my previous posts I explained how to enable the automatic integration of current selections within the Excel-export of QlikView Desktop or QlikView IE-Plugin. I received a lot of eMails how to force this for the Ajax-Client and/or Mobile-Client, here’s the answer: Setup for QlikView Server Open the settings.ini file for your QlikView […]