topic Re: Nprinting Filter not Fully Cached in Qlik NPrinting

Nprinting Filter not Fully Cached

ekurt — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 11:29:53 GMT

Hello,

today we wanted to upload several filters in Nprinting via Excel and we noticed the following conflict:
Our dimension (filter) has exactly 130 entries (also distinct values) in the data model and is not fully cached. We can update the values manually via "Search". If we do not update the filters via Search, sometimes we get an error message that the filtering are incorrect in our Reports.

On the Nprinting help page it says:
"The Qlik NPrinting cache only stores the first 1000 values from QlikView fields with a large amount of distinct values. In this case, the Fully cached green label does not appear. You will instead see a Search button on the right side of the value field. Type the string, or part of the string, that you want to find. Click Search to force Qlik NPrinting to look for the string in the connected QlikView document. When there is a large amount of distinct values, you have to manually insert the whole value that you want to filter."

Is there a control option to fully cache a specific field?

Re: Nprinting Filter not Fully Cached

Lech_Miszkiewicz — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 12:08:19 GMT

Hi @ekurt

i am not aware of issues like yours.
i guess this is a candidate for a support ticket rather than community post as it will require testing, access to your environment etc.

@Ruggero_Piccoli - what do you think?

Re: Nprinting Filter not Fully Cached

Frank_S — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 16:38:02 GMT

@ekurt

It's currently not possible to fully cache specific or all dimension values.

However this should not result in any filtering issues. It is only that you may not see the filter values pop up as you start typing the filter value when creating the filter if the value is one of those that is not cached.

If your filtering is failing based on a valid filter/dimension value, then this would be reason for a support ticket.

Otherwise, I would suggest if all is actually working and you want to see this feature (option to fully cache all dimension values), I can suggest that you post your feature request to our 'Ideas' site here:

Ideas | Qlik Community

Kind regards...

Re: Nprinting Filter not Fully Cached

ekurt — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 17:24:26 GMT

Thank you for advices, i will check it again and will create a support ticket

Re: Nprinting Filter not Fully Cached

Frank_S — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 18:01:18 GMT

@ekurt
If your dimension values are numeric, make sure to change the filter type to 'numeric value is' as shown here:

https://help.qlik.com/en-US/nprinting/May2021/Content/NPrinting/ReportsDevelopment/Static-dynamic-filters.htm#anchor-6

Re: Nprinting Filter not Fully Cached

Ruggero_Piccoli — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 16:10:48 GMT

Hi,

There is not a control to fully cache a specific field. It is very strange that a field with 130 distinct values is not fully cached. How are you retrieving that there are only 130 distinct values? Be sure it is not a visualization issue. For example if you have a date hour field and you are seeing only 130 values in a chart that displays only the date.

All fields with less than 1000 distinct values are fully cached. So, if a field is not fully cached, it means that the distinct values are more than 1000. Try to check the data model.

Best Regards,

Ruggero

Re: Nprinting Filter not Fully Cached

ekurt — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 18:41:10 GMT

Hi Ruggero,

regarding your question:

How are you retrieving that there are only 130 distinct values?

- We load an Excel file as a separate table with additional information for a supplier. In the Excel file exactly 130 rows/supplier are maintained.

Attached is an snippet from our datamodel.

I just do not understand why the other fields from the table "fully cache" and the required field not.

Best regards

ekurt

Re: Nprinting Filter not Fully Cached

Ruggero_Piccoli — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 07:38:36 GMT

Hi,

Try to insert a text box in your Qlik Sense app with the formula =FieldValueCount('City') https://help.qlik.com/en-US/sense/February2022/Subsystems/Hub/Content/Sense_Hub/ChartFunctions/InterRecordFunctions/fieldvaluecount.htm. This will display the number of distinct values of the specified field, City in my case, loaded in your app.

If they are more than 1000 it means that you have an issue in the load script. If they are 130, or less then 1000, I suggest you to open a support ticket with everything we need to reproduce. So the Qlik Sense app, the source Excel file etc.

Best Regards,

Ruggero