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Improved filter value selection - Select All (Search), Select excluded (search)

Ken_T — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 18:16:31 GMT

In a Qlik Sense app, a filter has the ability for the user to search, but there is a serious gap in the functionality of the filter when a search has been performed.

Suppose there are 1,000 items in the list for the filter. The user searches for items that start with a certain word and suppose there are 500 items that match that search. Suppose the user wants to select all 500 of those values.

Currently the only way for the user to select those 500 items is to click 500 times, once on each item. It is a ridiculous and horrible user experience.

There should be an option to select all the items that match the current search. and an option to select excluded, based on the current search. These options should be under the 3 dot menu.

All of the options that currently exist under the 3 dot menu in the filter completely disregard the current search and apply to all values in the list. This is a huge gap in the end user functionality.

There should be an option under the 3 dot menu to

1. Select all (search) ---this takes the current search results and selects them all
2. Select excluded (search) -- this shows up when a search has been done in the filter and at least one item is selected from the search results, and it then selects all of the search results minus the ones the user had manually selected

The label will indicate that it is for the results of the search, based on the word SEARCH in the name shown.

This will be a tremendous improvement to the end user experience and save countless hundreds of thousands of unneeded clicks. Please consider this improvement

Re: Improved filter value selection - Select All (Search), Select excluded (search)

Henri_Rufin — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 22:23:02 GMT

Actually that feature already exists. When making your search, instead of selecting each value manually, just press enter. By default Qlik will select all values matching your search criteria. Sure there is no indication you can do that in the filter menu but it a basic filter feature. After you’ve applied your selection you can use the exclude feature as usual and get the expected result.

Re: Improved filter value selection - Select All (Search), Select excluded (search)

Ken_T — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 14:13:43 GMT

Hi @Henri_Rufin , thanks for that share. That does give half of what this idea asks for. However, I think the UI would be more intuitive if the two menu items I suggested were added. Using enter to perform the action is a great shortcut, but there is no way for a user to know that is how to do it except by finding it by mistake accidently.

There is no way to do a select excluded based on the search results in the filter, unless you know another secret undocumented trick for that part.

Using the example, 1000 filter items, search for a string that returns 500, pick a handful of those, lets say 10, and attempt to do select excluded to select 490 of them. Select Excluded does not obey the current search results and works for the entire full list. The only way to do it is to use your trick to select all the search results and then shift click one by one to remove the others.

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Meghann_MacDonald — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 15:37:39 GMT

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