topic Re: Access Text of one text object from another text object in QlikView https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Access-Text-of-one-text-object-from-another-text-object/m-p/564864#M1100002 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I was using an if condition to display something in textbox2 based on what is displayed in textbox1</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 11 Apr 2014 09:59:32 GMT Anonymous 2014-04-11T09:59:32Z Access Text of one text object from another text object https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Access-Text-of-one-text-object-from-another-text-object/m-p/564860#M1099998 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi</P><P></P><P>I have two text objects. I would like to access the text displayed in one them from the second one. For example, doing something like</P><P>TextObject2 = TextObject1.text</P><P></P><P>Is there a way to do this in qlikview?</P><P></P><P>Thanks</P><P>Hasnaa</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 11 Apr 2014 09:54:50 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Access-Text-of-one-text-object-from-another-text-object/m-p/564860#M1099998 Anonymous 2014-04-11T09:54:50Z Re: Access Text of one text object from another text object https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Access-Text-of-one-text-object-from-another-text-object/m-p/564861#M1099999 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Create a variable for Text Box 1</P><P></P><P>vText1 = YourTextExpression</P><P></P><P>Now Use the same in Text Box 2 expression</P><P></P><P>=vText1</P><P>or</P><P>=$(vText1)</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 11 Apr 2014 09:57:11 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Access-Text-of-one-text-object-from-another-text-object/m-p/564861#M1099999 MK_QSL 2014-04-11T09:57:11Z Re: Access Text of one text object from another text object https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Access-Text-of-one-text-object-from-another-text-object/m-p/564862#M1100000 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>No. But, what stops you to use the same expression in the textobject2 as in textobject1 ?</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 11 Apr 2014 09:57:16 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Access-Text-of-one-text-object-from-another-text-object/m-p/564862#M1100000 tresB 2014-04-11T09:57:16Z Re: Access Text of one text object from another text object https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Access-Text-of-one-text-object-from-another-text-object/m-p/564863#M1100001 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>It's not possible to reference values in other objects. What you can do is put the expression that returns the value in a variable and use that variable in both text objects:</P><P>vMyVar: Hello World</P><P>TextObject1: =vMyVar</P><P>TextObject2: =vMyVar</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 11 Apr 2014 09:57:45 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Access-Text-of-one-text-object-from-another-text-object/m-p/564863#M1100001 Gysbert_Wassenaar 2014-04-11T09:57:45Z Re: Access Text of one text object from another text object https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Access-Text-of-one-text-object-from-another-text-object/m-p/564864#M1100002 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I was using an if condition to display something in textbox2 based on what is displayed in textbox1</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 11 Apr 2014 09:59:32 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Access-Text-of-one-text-object-from-another-text-object/m-p/564864#M1100002 Anonymous 2014-04-11T09:59:32Z