topic Re: Setting Dimensions in Definition.xml in QlikView

Setting Dimensions in Definition.xml

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:26:21 GMT

Hi,

First time attempting to use Qlikview extensions and finding it difficult with the lack of decent documentation.

I'm familiarising myself with how extensions work and have given myself the simple task of seeing how to filter data within an extension. I'm using the extension provided with Qlikview documentation entitled 'template'

The Definition.xml looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

</ExtensionObject>

No matter what I change the Dimension 'Initial' attribute to be, such as 'STUDY' which is a dimension within my dataset, the initial dimensions within the extension when I drag it onto Qlikview Webview, are always something else. When I change these values within the properties of the extension once it is in Qlikview, it works okay.

My question is how do I set which Dimensions I wish to see when the extension is dragged into Qlikview?

I hope I've explained myself clearly.

Thanks,

Darren.

Re: Setting Dimensions in Definition.xml

Stefan_Walther — Fri, 31 May 2013 12:32:23 GMT

Use the Initiate tag for dimension, too, e.g.

Regards

Stefan

Re: Setting Dimensions in Definition.xml

justin_morley — Fri, 31 May 2013 14:26:47 GMT

Hi Stefan,

Thanks for the reply, I'm a colleague of Darren's continuing his investigation, and your answer worked fine up to a point - I'm looking at the next two problems:

1) My XML now contains this:

If I right-click on my new object in the Ajax client, I see 3 dimensions, labelled 1, 2 and 3, and the first is initiated to STUDY and the second to GROUP_ID.

The third dimension field however is blank, as if you can only initiate a maximum of two dimensions. Is this the case or am I doing something else wrong?

2) How do I similarly pre-populate my incoming Measurements?

The above lines in XML don't seem to work. I can't find any documentation about how to use the QV object model as above. What exactly is "Chart" in this context? Will the API documentation help me because I can't seem to find a "Chart" object type?

Thanks very much,

Justin

Re: Setting Dimensions in Definition.xml

justin_morley — Fri, 31 May 2013 14:51:04 GMT

I've answered number 2) for myself with some more investigation.

The answer is use the following term:

which I think is a tad unintuitive.

For the record, I found this information in the SDK documentation here:

http://qlikcommunity.s3.amazonaws.com/misc/Qv11/qvproperties.htm

which has lots of other interesting information, and is linked from the main SDK page for QlikView Version 11 which is here:

http://community.qlik.com/docs/DOC-2639