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Support <url> in table box

Has anyone found a way to do a <url> in a table box? Not a chart table or a chart pivot table but a table box.

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Thanks, I understand what you did. But why does everyone disagree with fixing the system so that you should not have to do that.

disqr_rm
Partner - Specialist III
Partner - Specialist III

Well, Textbox is working as designed – this is the answer we would get from QlikTech. It’s like you cannot place calculated fields in a TableBox. If you are ok now, could you mark the thread answered?

Here is the link to place your ideas.

http://community.qlik.com/ideas

If you place your comments there, people will vote on it and QlikTech will add it in their list according to number of votes, etc.

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The field I am placing in the table box is a fully calculated string already prior to be loading into QlikView, there is no expression to be done on it. It has the value of "documentxyz<url>url address" already built when loaded. So the table box would not be doing a calculated expression. it would be a column that should have the option of displaying as a link.

disqr_rm
Partner - Specialist III
Partner - Specialist III

Well I did not say your issue is about calculated expressions. I was just giving another example of what TableBox cannot do, and it’s as designed.

Anonymous
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This is a wrong expectation.  Notice that it is not enough to create a "url-type" expression, you also must use "link" representation, which is not possible in a table box.


In general, I don't see a reason to use table boxes at all in the production applications.  Straight tables are more flexible - and faster at the same time.
The only use of a table box is during the development phase, when you want to see what exactly is loaded in a logical table.

Regards,
Michael

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We have the <url> column in a straight table now. We have 20 columns of data that are all conditional. When we display any columns that have a null value the underline under the link turns off. What causes this?

terrykavouras
Contributor III
Contributor III

I have a pretty compelling reason to include a URL 'link' representation in the table box.  It is this:

I have about 60 columns of data that I'd like to show the user along with a link on each line to several related PDFs.  I could use a straight table with 60 dimensions and the URLs as expressions however, I can't control the width of the dimension in a straight table, so my 60 columns stretch off to the right about 6,000 pixels.  This can't be altered. So it is better to use a table box, but then I'm unable to show the URLs as links.  It's a conundrum. 

A fair solution would be to allow a URL in the table box or to allow the user to control the width of a straight table. 

terrykavouras
Contributor III
Contributor III

The problem with all this is the if you use a straight table you can't control the width of the table.  If you have 60 dimension columns and the URL in the expression column, the object width will be as wide as all the columns.  Even if you display a modest 75 pixels per column you'll have an object width of about 4500 pixels.  And you can't shrink it.

Anonymous
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You can create a straight table with the full length horizontal scrollbar.  Search the forum for solutions, I'm sure there are multiple.

rwunderlich
Partner Ambassador/MVP
Partner Ambassador/MVP

You can't control the width of the Dimension portion. But if you code the Dim values as expressions, you can use a scroll bar, yes?

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