Specify values to exclude in Section Access

[#1]

Is it possible to define values in a field to exclude for specific users in Section Access?

For instance, an organisation may have 500 products and they want users to see all of them except 5.  Instead of specifying 495 products a user does have access to, can you specify the 5 that should be excluded?

[jagan]

Hi,

You can do this by arriving a additional Field like ProductCategory which has two values like 'Show', 'Hide' in the Products table.  All the 495 products should have 'Show' value and the remaining 5 Products should have 'Hide'.

You can use similar script like this

Section Access;

LOAD * INLINE [

    ACCESS, USERID, PASSWORD, REDUCTION

    ADMIN, Admin, password, *

    USER, Sales, password1, 1   

];

Section Application;

star is *;

Departments:

LOAD * INLINE [

   REDUCTION, ProductCategory

    1, Show

    2, Hide];

Sales:

LOAD

     *,

     If(Match(Product, 'Product1', 'Product2', 'Product3','Product4','Product5'), 'Hide', 'Show') AS ProductCategory //Product 1-5 are products to hide from users

FROM DataSource;

Finally, you should select Settings -> Document Properties -> Opening tab -> select  "Initial Data Reduction based on Section Access"

Hope this helps you.

Regards,

Jagan.

[#3]

Thanks for the reply Jagan.

This would work, but it is not as elegant as it could be with an "exclude" or "not in" style function.

[jagan]

Hi,

You can try Exclude(Exists()) or Not In would exclude the data from the Qlikview file.  Is it ok for you.  But the above solution will keep the data in Qlikview file and show/hides the data based on the logged in user.

Regards,

Jagan.

[#5]

The first option is preferable.  There would be users who need to view all data.