topic Re: Nprinting Conditional page display in Qlik NPrinting

Nprinting Conditional page display

gerald_lebret — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 15:58:50 GMT

Dear all,

I created a report on nprinting based on a Qlik Sense application.

Now, there are some pages of these report that I eventually need to hide.

I wanted to use a variable but I can't figure out where to define the visible or not option based on the result of this variable.

Can anyone please help?

Thank you.

Gerald

Re: Nprinting Conditional page display

Frank_S — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 22:50:26 GMT

Hi @gerald_lebret

I'm going to share a rather simple solution.

Create 2 reports (or use the 'move reports ' steps to essentially make a copy of an existing report and take out the unneeded charts from the copy - report 2. See https://help.qlik.com/en-US/nprinting/May2021/Content/NPrinting/AdministeringQVNprinting/Import-export-report-from-different-NP-environments.htm#anchor-1)

Report 1 with one set of charts
Report 2 with another set of charts

Create 2 conditions: (create your condition based on perhaps some variable in your data or perhaps simply with a chart has or does not have data. For more details, see Conditions)

Add condition 1 to report 1
Add condition 2 to report 2

Create 1 publish tasks:

Add Report 1 > Publish task 1 (and and set report condition 1 to 'true')
Add Report 2 > Publish task 1 (add and set report condition 2 to 'true')

This, in theory, should only send report 1 if condition 1 is met and only send report 2 if condition 2 is met.

The key here is defining 2 unique conditions to meet your requirement.

If the condition is met, the report is sent

If the condition is not met, the report will not be sent because the condition will be evaluated to 'false'

I'm sure others here will have other ideas for you as well.

Kind regards...

Re: Nprinting Conditional page display

Ruggero_Piccoli — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 11:03:07 GMT

Hi,

In a similar case you need to specify what kind of template you are creating and its structure.

For example in PixelPerfect in some cases you can create formatting rules that show/hide parts of the template. Instead in Office templates you can use the Page node and add a straight table on it that contains a row only for the pages you want to create. In this case created pages are not hidden, they are not created at all.

So we need more details to help you.

Best Regards,

Ruggero

Re: Nprinting Conditional page display

gerald_lebret — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 13:49:18 GMT

Hello all,

Thanks for your assistance.

I did create copies of the reports and delete unnecessaries elements / page.

However, this is not the way I would have liked to proceed. I would have liked to create a variable and set the visible to yes or no depending on the variable value.

Thanks thoug.

Best regards,

Gerald

Re: Nprinting Conditional page display

Ruggero_Piccoli — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 13:57:11 GMT

Hi,

Without knowing the type of template you are developing and having an idea of the structure and the data model we cannot suggest more. Another idea could be to check here in the community because similar questions appeared in the past.

Best Regards,

Ruggero

Re: Nprinting Conditional page display

Frank_S — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 14:04:46 GMT

You can indeed use a variable to use a variable in your condition @gerald_lebret.

But not necessarily for individual objects.

If using pixel perfect report template editor, as @Ruggero_Piccoli suggested, you can use conditional to show hide individual objects.

https://help.qlik.com/en-US/nprinting/May2021/Content/NPrinting/PixelPerfectReports/Manage-Conditional.htm

Kind regards...

Re: Nprinting Conditional page display

gerald_lebret — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 14:08:48 GMT

Hi,

I'm sorry if my explanations were not complete.

I created an app in qlik sense, then created a pixel perfect report in nprinting.

In this report, each page is in a separate band, and I know there is a visible option for each band, allowing to show (and print) or not a page.

Thus, as explained before, instead of creating a copy of this report, I would have liked to create a variable that I would assign to a user and depending on the value of the variable, some of the report pages would print or not.

Do you have enough information?

PS: I did check the community already but couldn't find such topic.

Thank you for your help

Best regards

Gerald

Re: Nprinting Conditional page display

Frank_S — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 15:20:58 GMT

@gerald_lebret

I think that some (if not all) of what you want to accomplish can be done with NPrinting user filters so that for example, you set a user filter(s) on a specific user (create your filters for each user first)

This way, regardless of what charts you use in your report, data associated with that user will appear.

Kind regards...

Re: Nprinting Conditional page display

Ruggero_Piccoli — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 13:01:05 GMT

Hi @gerald_lebret

PixelPerfect has the Formatting Rules that can be applied to bands

When the condition is true you can change the visibility of the band to true or false

This is the theory. How to apply the Formatting Rules to your specific template depends on the structure of the template. So we cannot be 100% sure that you can apply formatting rules to your case but I suggest you to evaluate them.

Best Regards,

Ruggero