topic Re: Mysterious behavior - nonexistent field name in filter bar in App Development

Mysterious behavior - nonexistent field name in filter bar

Lauri — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:00:35 GMT

We're on QS Enterprise Nov 2025 patch 2. We have an app that has a field named "Site" and a master dimension also named "Site". We experienced some odd behavior: When I selected a value from Site, the filter bar showed "SITE" (all caps). There is absolutely no field or dimension with that name or title. Why did it do this?

The app also caused trouble with an NPrinting report -- it would fail with a filter error: "False to current document data" that was supposed to filter based on Site. It failed for 3 of 5 values and succeeded for the other 2.

I got everything working normally (in Sense and NPrinting) by reloading the data with the field renamed (Load Site as "Site Name") and then reverting back to "Site" so it seems that the table in the database was somehow corrupt.

I've never seen anything like this. Wondering if it's a new problem. Maybe I'll never see it again.

Re: Mysterious behavior - nonexistent field name in filter bar

Or — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:13:01 GMT

Is the master item's Title (not name) ='SITE'? This is what shows up in the selection bar.

Re: Mysterious behavior - nonexistent field name in filter bar

Lauri — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:16:37 GMT

The master dimension Name is "Site" and the Label expression is empty.

Re: Mysterious behavior - nonexistent field name in filter bar

WeLoveQlik — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:41:25 GMT

was the data loaded via a SQL select statement?

Re: Mysterious behavior - nonexistent field name in filter bar

Lauri — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:53:50 GMT

No not with a SQL statement. The data all came from CSVs and Excel files.

Re: Mysterious behavior - nonexistent field name in filter bar

marcus_sommer — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 07:18:57 GMT

Renaming a single field within the load - forward and backward - doesn't change mandatory the field because the field-index could keep the same and just the label for the field needs to be adjusted.

Therefore you may try to repeat the measurement by adding anything like: 'Dummy' as MyDummy before Site is loaded and/or dropping this field + saving the app and then reloading to enforce a change to the field-index.

Re: Mysterious behavior - nonexistent field name in filter bar

rwunderlich — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:34:01 GMT

FWIW I had a similar problem recently on May 2025 patch 6. There was a field selection ( with a legitimate name) showing in the selection bar. But there was no actual selection in that field. I couldn't clear this phantom selection chip. I also "fixed" the problem by reloading the field with a different name and then swapped back.

Anyone else seen this?

-Rob