topic Show a comment indicator in QlikView https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Show-a-comment-indicator/m-p/1108220#M366850 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>A very common topic in Qlik Apps: How to cover comments.</P><P></P><P>There are many solutions available from macros that write back input values to a text file to sophisticated extensions. To get around the input problem on small installations, I simply load the comments with the data and do not offer an input interface. Not user friendly, but robust and cheap.</P><P></P><P>What was left open to me (maybe I did not search enough) was the question, <STRONG>how to indicate that for a specific data point we have a comment</STRONG>. My solution is "value on data point". The enclosed app creates a measurement "comment indicator" during load if a comment is available for a data set. Then it puts a marker "comment available" by the side of this data point in a line chart.</P><P></P><P>I would be curious if anyone did something similar and what the general opinion is. Happy for suggestions to improve it.</P><P></P><P>Keep Qliking</P><P>Michael</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 14 Jun 2016 10:37:09 GMT michael_klix 2016-06-14T10:37:09Z Show a comment indicator https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Show-a-comment-indicator/m-p/1108220#M366850 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>A very common topic in Qlik Apps: How to cover comments.</P><P></P><P>There are many solutions available from macros that write back input values to a text file to sophisticated extensions. To get around the input problem on small installations, I simply load the comments with the data and do not offer an input interface. Not user friendly, but robust and cheap.</P><P></P><P>What was left open to me (maybe I did not search enough) was the question, <STRONG>how to indicate that for a specific data point we have a comment</STRONG>. My solution is "value on data point". The enclosed app creates a measurement "comment indicator" during load if a comment is available for a data set. Then it puts a marker "comment available" by the side of this data point in a line chart.</P><P></P><P>I would be curious if anyone did something similar and what the general opinion is. Happy for suggestions to improve it.</P><P></P><P>Keep Qliking</P><P>Michael</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 14 Jun 2016 10:37:09 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Show-a-comment-indicator/m-p/1108220#M366850 michael_klix 2016-06-14T10:37:09Z