topic Re: qlikview capturing format settings of a document in QlikView

qlikview capturing format settings of a document

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:26:21 GMT

Hi All,

Is it possible to capture the format settings (font, color,size etc) of a qlikview report?

Thanks and Regards,

Anju

Re: qlikview capturing format settings of a document

Alexander_Thor — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 18:37:34 GMT

Hi Anju,

Yes every object in QlikView has their styling exposed in the JavaScript API through the Qv.Document.Object.Style class.

There is no way to grab the default document settings at the moment through the JavaScript API.

Re: qlikview capturing format settings of a document

Tue, 27 Aug 2013 06:12:30 GMT

Hi Alexander,

Thank you for replyiing!

But is it possible to copy paste objects via javascript API?

Re: qlikview capturing format settings of a document

Alexander_Thor — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 15:42:28 GMT

There is no official method in the api to do it. You could however use the object you want to copy as a base for a new object. You would have to re-wire some inheritance but should be doable in theory. Don't have any code to back it up though.

Re: qlikview capturing format settings of a document

Mon, 02 Sep 2013 05:09:08 GMT

Hi Alexander,

Do you have any documentation of the api?

Re: qlikview capturing format settings of a document

Alexander_Thor — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 13:22:01 GMT

Sure, you can find it on http://community.qlik.com/docs/DOC-2673

Re: qlikview capturing format settings of a document

Tue, 10 Sep 2013 11:29:19 GMT

Thank You!!

Re: qlikview capturing format settings of a document

Tue, 08 Oct 2013 17:12:00 GMT

Hi Alexander,

I tried this macro.

But, there is some error in it..

sub font

qv.document().getobject("LB0").style.bordercolor=rgb(77,89,600)

end sub

could you pls help me with the syntax?

-Anju

Re: Re: qlikview capturing format settings of a document

Alexander_Thor — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 17:23:39 GMT

Ah, you can't leverage the JS API inside of a macro. If you want to use macros you should look into the Automation API that you can find here: http://community.qlik.com/docs/DOC-2640

Also here is a snippet that might help you

set mybox = ActiveDocument.GetSheetObject("LB01")
mbp = mybox.GetProperties
mbp.Layout.Frame.BorderEffect = 3
mbp.Layout.Frame.Color.PrimaryCol.Col = RGB(255,0,0)
mbp.Layout.Frame.BorderWidth = 5
mbp.Layout.Frame.Dark = 0.25
mbp.Layout.Frame.Light = 0.9
mybox.SetProperties mbp

Re: qlikview capturing format settings of a document

Wed, 09 Oct 2013 16:16:51 GMT

Hi Alexander,

If I were to create an extension,is it possible to list out the different types of objects possible and its features so that the user can give inputs?

Is it possible to write some code like this

for(i=0;i<=objectlist.size();i++)

{

for(j=0;j<=i.attributes;i++)

{

give a dropdown list for each attribute//so that user can give inputs for each attribute and it will automatically be applied to all objects of that type?

}

Thanks,

Anju

Re: qlikview capturing format settings of a document

Alexander_Thor — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 20:22:35 GMT

Yes that would be possible, however even if they would select something it would not be saved back to the original QV document. As soon as you publish something out to accesspoint you can't allow users to save things back into the core document as that would be a major security issue.

Re: qlikview capturing format settings of a document

Thu, 10 Oct 2013 05:54:39 GMT

I don't want to use it with accesspoint.

I only want to use it locally, on the desktop .

And create , say a .qvt file so that some one else could use it and import a

default template.

Could you share some sample code that accesses the qlikview objects please?

Thanks,

Anju