How to Use Specific Filters with NPrinting On-Demand Reporting

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We suggest that you do How to Use Current Selections with On-Demand Reporting before doing this tutorial.

You will explore the interaction between Reports with filters applied in the NPrinting Project file and Current Selections you set on the QlikView On-Demand sheet.

Attention: remember to save QlikView documents used as NPrinting connections with WebView mode deactivated. NPrinting cannot open QlikView documents with WebView mode activated because it doesn't have full control of QlikView functionalities.

Prepare NPrinting Filter

                  

                              

        

• Open NPrinting Project document C:\NPrintingTraining\NPrintingFiles\OnDemand.nsq
• Create a new filter or use the one that is already present in the training environment. Read this tutorial: How to Create Static and Dynamic Filters Based on Fields to learn how to create a filter based on fields.
• Call it French Offices
• Select the field Sales Office
• Add the value Paris and Nice
• OK
• Save and Close

   

Create New NPrinting Report Extension

        

Create a new NPrinting Report Extension in the QlikView document (see: How to Use NPrinting Extensions in QlikView Documents).  We’ll use an NPrinting report that doesn’t have any NPrinting filters connected in this example. We’ll add an NPrinting filter but using the NPrinting Report Extension Object. Finally, we’ll generate the report with different combinations of filters to see how they work together.

• Turn on WebView if it is not already on
• Right click on the sheet
• Select New Sheet Object
• Click on the Extension Objects bar
• Drag and drop the NPrinting Report object onto the sheet

  

Configure NPrinting Report Extension Object

                  

                              

        

• Right click on the object
• Select Properties
• Click on Button appearance if it is not already selected
• Text: PowerPoint Report with Multiple Pages - French Offices
• Bottom Color: =rgb(66,80,80)

   

Configure On-Demand Service Connection

                  

                              

        

Click on On-Demand Service Connection

1. Hostname: localhost
2. HTTP Port: 9001

Configure Report settings

                  

                              

        

Click on Report settings

• Friendly name: PowerPoint Report with Multiple Pages - French Offices
• NPrinting Project path: C:\NPrintingTraining\NPrintingFiles\OnDemand.nsq
• Report ID: PowerPoint Report with Multiple Pages - Current Selections
• Connection ID: Sales Demo
• Output format: PPTX

 

Configure Filter settings

                  

                              

        

Click on Filter settings

1. Use current selections: check marked
2. Additional saved filters: insert here the name of the NPrinting filter you want to apply to the report. For this tutorial insert FranceOffices, the name precisely as it is in the NPrinting Project file
3. Close the configuration editor

Clear and Demand

                  

                              

        

1. Clear all Filters/Selections
2. Click on the PowerPoint Report with Multiple Pages - French Offices button to generate the report

  

Select and Open Report

                  

                              

        

• Click on the Report queue button
• Click on the topmost report
• Click on Open

Inspect Report

                  

                              

        

The report has 21 slides for sales managed by the Paris and Nice sales offices as set in the saved NPrinting filter.

Set Current Selection

                  

                              

        

1. Set a current selection, Sales Office=Lund, in the QlikView document. It’s a filter on the same field filtered inside NPrinting.
2. Request report generation

    

Inspect Report Again

                  

                              

        

The report has 17 slides for the sales managed by the Lund office. The saved NPrinting report filter was ignored.

Reconfigure Filter Settings and Demand Report Generation Again

                  

                              

        

1. Keep the current selection, Sales Office = Lund and right click on the NPrinting Report button
2. Open the properties windows by right clicking and selecting Properties
3. Go to Filter settings
4. Uncheck the option Use current selections
5. Close the window by clicking on the 'X'
6. Demand report generation another time

 

Inspect This Last Report

                  

                              

        

The current selection has been ignored and the resulting report contains only sales from the Paris and Nice offices.

We suggest that you do How to Use NPrinting On-Demand to Set Recipients in Tasks now that you have completed this tutorial.