topic Re: Definition.xml help in QlikView

Definition.xml help

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:26:21 GMT

Is it possible to refer to a text that you have created in the xml. Here is an example to what I mean:

Now I want to make one more Text field to use for my scrolling ticker, but I do not know the syntax. In this field I would want the Expression to look something like this

Expression = "=concat( "+Title +" & " +Statements+". '.....')

where Title and Statements have already been filled.

The reason I am trying to do it this way is because I have the Title field in bold in the script and the statement to not be in bold.

Thanks,

Kevin

Re: Definition.xml help

Clever_Anjos — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 20:12:54 GMT

fields inside your definition.xml are not accessible as fields.

They can be accessed using javascript API

this.Layout.Text1.text.toString() returns your first Text tag and so on

Re: Definition.xml help

Tue, 25 Feb 2014 20:26:18 GMT

Yes that is what I thought. Problem occurs that when I create a function string in the script (ie. concat(Field1,'...') I am just going to see this function, where in if I put it in the xml file it will run appropriately.

Ok thanks for the reassurance

Re: Definition.xml help

Clever_Anjos — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 20:34:27 GMT

Unfortunately those values are not visible into QlikView scope