topic Re: Does Dynamic Bookmark work? in QlikView

Does Dynamic Bookmark work?

Fri, 20 Jun 2014 10:23:34 GMT

I am testing Dynamic Bookmark in the qlikview demo page, document: Retail Omni-Channel Analytics

and it does not work.

I select in Year list box by search: =Rank(Year)=1

and I created a bookmark:

When I applied the bookmark it does not do a dynamic selection, it apply 2014 even if I have 2013 selected.

What is wrong with that?

Thanks

Re: Does Dynamic Bookmark work?

tresB — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 10:49:51 GMT

Sometimes back, I noticed the same issue (SR2,SR6). I suggest to contact qlik support and please let us know here - the response you get.

Re: Does Dynamic Bookmark work?

Fri, 20 Jun 2014 11:28:16 GMT

I can not get Qlikview Support

In my opinion it is very strange that it does not work and there is no information about it.

Maybe Qlik staff have something to say about it

Re: Does Dynamic Bookmark work?

Mon, 07 Jul 2014 13:09:59 GMT

Re: Does Dynamic Bookmark work?

Tue, 15 Jul 2014 15:11:44 GMT

up again

Re: Does Dynamic Bookmark work?

hopkinsc — Tue, 21 Apr 2015 15:24:58 GMT

Hi, i am not sure if you still need an answer to this, but here it is if anyone else wants to know.

for some reason you cannot create a dynamic bookmark in v11/v11.2.

BUT

you can create it in v10 and export, import to the V11 qvw and it works. there just seems to be an issue with creating in v11. (you will obviously need to edit the XML with the correct fields and ID before importing)

I have had to do this many times for our clients.

Also, once you have a working one in v11, you can also export that and import to another qvw successfully.

Hope that helps.

Re: Does Dynamic Bookmark work?

Fri, 22 May 2015 12:26:14 GMT

Dear hopkinsc,

Is it possible for you to provide some sample xml file containing the definition of a dynamic bookmark.

Since I don't have the possibility to generate a working bookmark file with QV10, I would like to build them up by editing a working one and importing it to QV11 application.

Thanks in advance

Re: Does Dynamic Bookmark work?

hopkinsc — Fri, 22 May 2015 13:09:40 GMT

Hi Fridtjof,

I have attached an XML

Hope it helps.

Re: Does Dynamic Bookmark work?

Fri, 22 May 2015 14:21:59 GMT

Great, got it working.

Thanks a lot

Re: Does Dynamic Bookmark work?

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Nov 2016 20:24:55 GMT

Great post thanks for this.

Summary of steps i took for QV 11.2

1. Create Bookmark

2. From Bookmarks menu select more

3. Select desired bookmark and export

4. Edit xml as per below in a text editor.

5. Import the bookmark via the Bookmarks->More

The key elements to edit are the following.

<TextSearch> will not have the dynamic search string. Rather it may have the selected fields or no value

I.e. Original Value : <TextSearch></TextSearch> or <TextSearch>2017/2018</TextSearch>

Edited Value: <TextSearch>=rank(Fiscal.Year)=1</TextSearch>

I also edited the values node.

original

</FieldValue>

</Values>

Edited

Re: Does Dynamic Bookmark work?

evan_kurowski — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 20:02:21 GMT

Thank you Damian for preserving knowledge that was nearly lost. This worked on Qv 11.2 (and wondering if there was ever a time that putting the search-expression into a field, and then saving bookmark kept the dynamic aspect? For now the issue appears the dynamic expression gets converted to a static value when saving the bookmark, and the "dynamic" behavior can only be reinstated by manually editing the XML to place the expression inside the proper tags)

But once the expression in inside the proper tags in the bookmark, the edit has the intended effect.

Re: Does Dynamic Bookmark work?

uacg0009 — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 08:19:48 GMT

Hi Damian,

Thanks for you answer, that works, but if I have more than 2 values in one field want to be selected, do you have any ideas to do that?

Because I tried to use '(' & concat.... & ')', it doesn't work.

Thanks.

Aiolos

Re: Does Dynamic Bookmark work?

uacg0009 — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 08:21:21 GMT

Hi Chris,

According to your answer, I created my dynamic bookmark, but if I have more than 1 values want to select in one field, how to do that?

Thanks.

Aiolos

Re: Does Dynamic Bookmark work?

er_abhichandra — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 09:03:03 GMT

Hi Evan, when you say proper tags, what does it exactly mean?

Thanks,

Abhinava

Re: Does Dynamic Bookmark work?

evan_kurowski — Sat, 07 Apr 2018 13:53:28 GMT

Abhinava, Edits made inside the proper XML tags.

Re: Does Dynamic Bookmark work?

MarcoWedel — Sat, 07 Apr 2018 21:57:45 GMT

old thread, but maybe some context might help:

https://community.qlik.com/message/520915?&_ga=2.227435098.698612365.1523138045-232309800.1521332352#520915

Bookmark as an expression do not work | Qlik Community

https://community.qlik.com/blogs/qlikviewdesignblog/2015/03/02/the-search-string?&_ga=2.159942138.698612365.1523138045-2…

regards

Marco

Re: Does Dynamic Bookmark work?

evan_kurowski — Sun, 08 Apr 2018 03:04:34 GMT

There's a lot of "Did it" or "Didn't it" murkiness in terms of this feature's history. It seems to have some version # specificity.

All I can attest from personal experience, is that I had a client who was exhaustive about testing (in a good way), and documented dynamic bookmarks as a tested feature across one of our major applications. This worked for us for over a year. (and the technique that was used at that time was entering a dynamic expression into search and saving the bookmark. We exported the bookmarks to XML several times to verify what was encapsulating in the <> </> tags. Any editing XML that i attempted was a separate "fix" that came later, tried at other clients)

For subsequent clients, I haven't been able to observe the same functionality, so I'm not sure what changes in the equation (is it versioning? Did the clients ever add a little nudge of their own? There were times when QV release numbers were client specific & customized)

Re: Does Dynamic Bookmark work?

er_abhichandra — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 04:19:27 GMT

Could you kindly show me an example? which particular tag to edit?

Thanks,

Abhinava