topic issue with $ sign expansion in QlikView https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/issue-with-sign-expansion/m-p/655874#M239492 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I am using $ sign expansion to dynamically reference a field in a filter and it is workinig great.&nbsp; The one issue I am running into is that it doesn't work if the field name has a blank or any special characters in it (other than an underscore).&nbsp; Has anyone else run into this and is there a work around?</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 25 Jun 2014 18:35:57 GMT 2014-06-25T18:35:57Z issue with $ sign expansion https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/issue-with-sign-expansion/m-p/655874#M239492 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I am using $ sign expansion to dynamically reference a field in a filter and it is workinig great.&nbsp; The one issue I am running into is that it doesn't work if the field name has a blank or any special characters in it (other than an underscore).&nbsp; Has anyone else run into this and is there a work around?</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 25 Jun 2014 18:35:57 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/issue-with-sign-expansion/m-p/655874#M239492 2014-06-25T18:35:57Z Re: issue with $ sign expansion https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/issue-with-sign-expansion/m-p/655875#M239493 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Try enclosing the name in [ and ], like in [Variable with spaces]</P><P></P><P>Eduardo</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 25 Jun 2014 18:56:07 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/issue-with-sign-expansion/m-p/655875#M239493 eduardo_sommer 2014-06-25T18:56:07Z Re: issue with $ sign expansion https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/issue-with-sign-expansion/m-p/655876#M239494 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thank you Eduardo.&nbsp; Just had to realize to apply the brackets to the field name in a variable prior to using the $ sign expansion.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 25 Jun 2014 19:34:42 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/issue-with-sign-expansion/m-p/655876#M239494 2014-06-25T19:34:42Z