topic How to GetCurrentSelections in an extension object? in QlikView

How to GetCurrentSelections in an extension object?

Andrea_Ghirardello — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:26:21 GMT

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to retrieve the current selections in my extension.

I tried the example from QlikView Ajax JavaScript Library but when I select more than 6 values, I get a result in the form "x of y".

Could anyone please help me? Is there a method like the GetFieldSelections in desktop API?

Andrea

Re: How to GetCurrentSelections in an extension object?

Gysbert_Wassenaar — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 16:19:50 GMT

You can add a parameter to the getcurrentselection function to make it return more values: GetCurrentSelections('',':',',',100). The default is 6, in the example this is set to 100.

Re: How to GetCurrentSelections in an extension object?

Andrea_Ghirardello — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 07:34:32 GMT

Hi,

GetCurrentSelections('',':',',',100) works correctly in QlikView desktop but I need to get current selections from within my extension (from java script).

I tried the following example that you can find in the QlikView Ajax JavaScript Library but it works as I wrote: The red higlighted row returns "x of y".

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

Re: How to GetCurrentSelections in an extension object?

patrik_seger — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 08:27:07 GMT

Hi Andrea

I haven't used this method, so I do not know. But have you looked through the other elements in the array? Element 1 and possible elements 3, 4 or more (if they exists). And are there other properties part from .text that could give what you are looking for?

As you probably are aware of, the documentation of these things are not living up to the standards one would wish for.

Br Patrik

Re: How to GetCurrentSelections in an extension object?

Andrea_Ghirardello — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 09:11:14 GMT

Hi Patrik,

Unfortunately Element 1, 3, 4, etc... retrieve "undefined" result.

Re: Re: How to GetCurrentSelections in an extension object?

patrik_seger — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 09:32:29 GMT

Now I got curious and tested the code from JsDoc and it worked fine in my test.

I put this code in a Script.js file (in the global namespace):

Qv.GetCurrentDocument().GetCurrentSelections({
onChange: function () {
var f, data = this.Data.Rows;

      for (f = 0; f < data.length; f++) {
        alert(data[0].text + ":" + data[2].text);
      }
}
});

And I got alerts for all selections of all fields.

What version of QV are you using? I'm running 11 SR2.

Br Patrik

Re: How to GetCurrentSelections in an extension object?

Andrea_Ghirardello — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 09:43:05 GMT

The code you posted is the same that I tried and it works.

But if you select more than 5-6 values for a specific field, data[2].text will returns selections in the form "x of y".

Try your code with a lot of selections and let me know if it works.

I'm using 11 SR2 too.

Re: How to GetCurrentSelections in an extension object?

patrik_seger — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 11:27:28 GMT

Sorry, read to quick. Yes, I get the same response too. And the same when running the plugin as well. I think this is delivered from the server and I have not been able to find any setting for this (part from the VBScript/JScript API reffered above).

In the documentation there is a reference to a Qv.FieldOptions and there some fields indicate some kind of size setting, but passing the fields does not work. I looked into the JavaScript for GetCurrentSelections and CurrentSelectionMgr and it looks like the fields data is never used.

I guess that one way to solve this is to read data from a listbox as soon as there are more than 6 values selected.

Br Patrik

Re: How to GetCurrentSelections in an extension object?

Wed, 28 Aug 2013 13:41:33 GMT

Hey,

there is one workaround to solve your problem: The API from QlikView I think is a little bit buggy. So, first define a
Textbox object. In this object you can write an expression, something like this:

=GetCurrentSelections('',':',',',100)

Now you have the CurrentSelection in an defined object;

next you must read via the JS-API the object data out;

doc.GetObject("OBJECTID", function () {

//then you must split the string you get by the signs you have defined

...

}

This is some solution to solve the problem.

Re: How to GetCurrentSelections in an extension object?

Andrea_Ghirardello — Wed, 28 Aug 2013 13:57:21 GMT

Thanks,

We have already tried that but we want to avoid using a specific graphic object in the qvw.

Re: Re: How to GetCurrentSelections in an extension object?

patrik_seger — Wed, 28 Aug 2013 14:11:51 GMT

Lets try this then (inspired by Steoel above)...

Define an "invisible" text property in the Define.xml file:

Make it invisible by not supplying any code for this Text input in the .qvpp file.

Then, in JavaScript, read the value of the corresponding text field:

currentSelections = this.Layout.Text##.text;

where ## is the corresponding text number (0 for the first Text in the Definition.xml, 1 for the next and so on).

I use this technique to get the current QlikView version (<Text Expression="=QlikViewVersion()"/>) and it works fine, so this should probably work as well.

Br Patrik

Re: How to GetCurrentSelections in an extension object?

Andrea_Ghirardello — Wed, 28 Aug 2013 14:23:37 GMT

Thanks....we had come to the same conclusion.

Re: How to GetCurrentSelections in an extension object?

Clever_Anjos — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 16:32:50 GMT

I would suggest you use the API to do this: http://qlikcommunity.s3.amazonaws.com/misc/symbols/Qv.Document.html#GetCurrentSelections

Re: How to GetCurrentSelections in an extension object?

andrewpettit — Fri, 22 Aug 2014 19:29:01 GMT

Do you know of any limitations on this method? I tried using an expression I need as a property but I get an error. If I use the expression "=today()" it works just fine. However my expression does not work. To validate things the expression I am trying to use works fine in a textbox and if I unhide the property I still cannot set the default to my expression and things work, but I can paste it in via the properties dialog and everything works after.

So I can get my extension to work properly but I cannot default the one property to the required value and hide it without error.