topic Re: Listbox alignment in App Development

Listbox alignment

paulwalker — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 22:19:29 GMT

Hi Community,

I have a listbox and applied with below options, here listbox looks not correct alignment.

Can we make it proper alignment ? Or any work around?

Thanks in Advance!

Re: Listbox alignment

paulwalker — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 04:22:14 GMT

@tresesco, @MayilVahanan, @Kushal_Chawda, @marcus_sommer, @stevedark

and Experts - Can you please take a look!

Re: Listbox alignment

marcus_sommer — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 06:56:12 GMT

The list-box didn't provide a setting to define the vertically position of the content and aligned each to the top. But the additional check-boxes and similar features are - similar without any customizing options - aligned to the center. And by enabling multiple content-lines both features didn't match together. You may look if there are more options possible with macros whereby I would assume the likely isn't very high.

A workaround may be not to use two lines else three and changing the field to an expression like:

chr(10) & YourField

respectively to control the number of inserted line-breaks with repeat() and a check of the existing number of line-breaks and/or the lengths of the content.

Personally I don't like any of the provided alternative view-options from the list-box-selections and didn't apply them anywhere because there is no added value else only more efforts and therefore it would be also my recommendation for you.

Re: Listbox alignment

paulwalker — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 13:12:40 GMT

Got it Marcus, thanks for reply.

Another option I'm thinking - I have three buttons and one listbox.

If user select A button -A should be select in listbox

if user select A and after B button - listbox should be select A and B (Like Override Windows Checkbox option, here we can select multiple one by one)

also another combinations like .. A and B, B and C etc...

is there any possibility ?

Re: Listbox alignment

marcus_sommer — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 13:55:39 GMT

IMO it's a very heavy detour - not only in your case else in general. Creating buttons which perform actions to select any values - directly or with more or less complex variables/expressions if multiple actions needs to be performed and/or if there are any dependencies between them (the last could become very tricky).

Compared against the native and simple way of providing list-boxes and the user selects directly the wanted values and could track all selections through the belonging color-scheme of green/white/grey and maybe also through a selection-box. I have never seen any navigation-solution which was near to the native Qlik way. It could be done much more complicated but really resulting in a better user-experience? I have massive doubts.

Regarding to your scenario I assume the aim is providing an extended layout. For this you may consider to use not only a single list-box else at least two objects - list-box and/or table-charts and/or text-boxes side by side and/or within a container. Here an example of two table-charts side by side - one designed as multi-box and the other as check-box - to control flexible dimensions for pivot-tables with/without partial sums. Maybe it gives you some ideas ...