topic Re: Prevent objects from moving in QlikView

Prevent objects from moving

Tue, 11 Feb 2014 12:55:25 GMT

When i resize the Qlikview application in Windows, all the sheet objects move and the page layout gets changed. Ordinarily this isn't an issue as the application is maximized, however some of my users tend to reduce the window size and sheet objects start overlapping each other.

How do i lock all the sheet objects down so that they don't move about when the window is resized?

Re: Prevent objects from moving

MK_QSL — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 13:11:39 GMT

go to sheet properties by right clicking empty space on any sheet

go to Security tab

untick move/size sheet objects.

Re: Prevent objects from moving

MK_QSL — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 13:13:19 GMT

Or may be go to respective sheet

CTRL + A

Right Click on any object and go to Properties

Layout tab

and untick Size to Data

and untick Allow Move/size under option.

Re: Prevent objects from moving

Tue, 11 Feb 2014 13:25:13 GMT

This does work, sort of. The position of the objects relative to each other remains unchanged, but the position of the objects overall on my background has moved, which I think may have been the problem initially.

How would i stop them moving relative to my background?

Re: Prevent objects from moving

Tue, 11 Feb 2014 13:27:51 GMT

Slightly correction to my above issue. The sheet objects actually remain unchanged relative to each other, but they all move on the background. How can I 'pin' them to the background?

Re: Prevent objects from moving

Colin-Albert — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 13:34:21 GMT

The position of objects relative to the background is affected by the windows display settings.

If the scaling percentage is set different on your machine to the machine that the QVW was created on, then objects will shift compared to the background.

I had this problem when my laptop was set to 125% but other developers were using 100% scaling.

Changing my laptop to 100% scaling fixed the problem.

Re: Prevent objects from moving

Tue, 11 Feb 2014 15:56:04 GMT

So essentially, there is no way of pinning the sheet objects then? As i can't stop my users making their windows smaller on their desktops

Re: Prevent objects from moving

Colin-Albert — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 19:34:58 GMT

This scaling issue only affects background images on the sheet, and the position of the background image relative to the other objects.

Re: Prevent objects from moving

Thu, 13 Feb 2014 09:19:21 GMT

So just to be clear, it's impossible get round this issue if my users are resizing their own windows?

Re: Prevent objects from moving

Thu, 13 Feb 2014 12:02:31 GMT

FYI, the answer was simply setting the 'Image Formatting' to No Stretch!

Re: Prevent objects from moving

Thu, 13 Feb 2014 12:05:49 GMT

and the horizontal as Left and the Vertical as Top