topic Re: Button action - Show Information in QlikView

Button action - Show Information

Thu, 13 Mar 2014 12:41:06 GMT

In the help files, under Button Properties -> Actions -> Show Information, is the following:

Shows the associated information, such as a text file or an image for the field

specified by Field. This function does not work in AJAX client.

But nowhere does it tell you how to associate information to a field.

Could someone show me how to associate a text file or an image to a field?

With thanks
James

Re: Button action - Show Information

jsingh71 — Thu, 13 Mar 2014 12:45:49 GMT

What exactly you want to do. Can you let us know little deeper about your requirement?

Re: Button action - Show Information

Thu, 13 Mar 2014 13:04:19 GMT

In the 'Properties' window of the object, go to 'Caption' and at the bottom, you will see 'Help Text' with a textbox underneath it. You can put your text or expression for text to be displayed here.

Re: Button action - Show Information

Thu, 13 Mar 2014 13:08:29 GMT

Thanks for the reply, but this is not related to Show Information.

Show Information is at a field level, and apparently allows association of a text file or image to a field.

I want to understand how this works, as the ability to show information at a field level might be helpful in providing interactive help for users. Sadly, the QV documentation is lacking in this area.

Thanks

James

Re: Button action - Show Information

Thu, 13 Mar 2014 13:08:44 GMT

See my second post.

Thanks!

James

Re: Button action - Show Information

stevedark — Thu, 13 Mar 2014 13:16:17 GMT

I've not done much myself with this functionality, so can't vouch for how it will work under Ajax, but I think what you want to be looking at is Meta Data, as described in this post:

Metadata

Hope that helps,

Steve

Re: Button action - Show Information

Thu, 13 Mar 2014 13:23:47 GMT

I think this can be used where you have loaded an image as a field (using the Bundle Info load). When you add the action using this image field and click on the button you will get a pop up box show the image of the selected field item.

Re: Button action - Show Information

rwunderlich — Thu, 13 Mar 2014 13:40:35 GMT

I just did a brief test of Show Info under ajax and I got a new window but it only displayed broken image link. You may want to check with support on this one.

-Rob