How to Use Specific Filters with NPrinting On-Demand Reporting

Bjorn_Wedbratt — Tue, 10 Nov 2015 09:36:52 GMT

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

Hostname: localhost
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

Use current selections: check marked
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
Close the configuration editor

Clear and Demand

Clear all Filters/Selections
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

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

Keep the current selection, Sales Office = Lund and right click on the NPrinting Report button
Open the properties windows by right clicking and selecting Properties
Go to Filter settings
Uncheck the option Use current selections
Close the window by clicking on the 'X'
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.

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