topic Re: Save variable state in bookmark not working in App Development

Save variable state in bookmark not working

jan-ri — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 13:14:39 GMT

As per https://help.qlik.com/en-US/cloud-services/Subsystems/Hub/Content/Sense_Hub/Bookmarks/create-bookmark.htm#anchor-1 we should be able to save values of variables in bookmarks but unfortunately this doesn't work.

I created a simple app and added a variable input object to manipulate the value of the variable:

Next, I created a bookmark including the option 'Save variable state in bookmarks'. After manipulating the variable value and apply the bookmark I would assume that the value of the variable will change to the old value, when the bookmark was created, but the value always stays untouched.

I am not sure if I understand the function correctly or if it is a different problem. I hope someone can help me.

Regards
Jan

Re: Save variable state in bookmark not working

marcus_sommer — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 13:40:34 GMT

I don't know how Sense handles this matter but in QlikView you must also set an option within the variable-properties (within the document properties or within the input-box settings) to make the variable savable in a bookmark. Maybe this logic exists in Sense, too.

Re: Save variable state in bookmark not working

Or — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 13:42:24 GMT

I had a quick play with this in Qlik Cloud and it seems to be working as expected - after saving a bookmark with the variable checkbox toggled on, the value kept reverting to the original when I applied the bookmark. Not sure what's going on if that's not the case elsewhere.

Re: Save variable state in bookmark not working

jan-ri — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 14:19:32 GMT

It's really strange... I double-checked it, but after setting the option to save the variable state, the information of the bookmark says 'Variable state: None' (even in a vanilla app)

Re: Save variable state in bookmark not working

jan-ri — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 13:51:49 GMT

Hello all, after several months I came back to this... and 'solved' it.

Variables that are generated in script (these ones, marked with the script icon) won't get saved as variable state in bookmarks. However, variables that are generate in the UI through the variables dialog will be saved. Unfortunately this functionality isn't documented anywhere so it's a bit misleading.

Re: Save variable state in bookmark not working

PedroC — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 11:17:45 GMT

I'll give it a try, though it would be great if Qlik would let us decide whether a variable should be saved or not in the bookmark.

Thanks!