topic Re: Resize Current Selection Box smaller, without horizontal scroll bar in QlikView

Resize Current Selection Box smaller, without horizontal scroll bar

atsushi_saijo — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 10:19:25 GMT

The Current Selection Box must be resized to save some space.

However, the horizontal bar gets in. Where can I change this horizontal bar so that either it appears smaller point, or does not appear.

I would appreciate for your feedback on how to.

Re: Resize Current Selection Box smaller, without horizontal scroll bar

Tue, 24 Feb 2015 10:29:31 GMT

Hi,

Go to the right most end,

A plus + mouse point will appear.

Drag that to left.

Regards,

Joshmi

Re: Resize Current Selection Box smaller, without horizontal scroll bar

morganaaron — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 10:30:09 GMT

Hi,

You can make it 'thinner' by right clicking, selecting properties, going to the layout tab and reducing the 'scrollbar width' option.

If you make a selection, on the far right of that selection around the edge of your box it should offer you a different cursor (the black column resizing cursor) - rather than just resize the box, first resize the "selection" column or the "field" column, and then you should be able to reduce the box size without encountering the horizontal scrollbar.

Re: Resize Current Selection Box smaller, without horizontal scroll bar

Tue, 24 Feb 2015 10:31:53 GMT

Re: Resize Current Selection Box smaller, without horizontal scroll bar

morganaaron — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 10:32:38 GMT

Alternatively, if you want to reduce the size dramatically, consider using a different object to show the current selections. A good example is this document by stevedark: http://community.qlik.com/docs/DOC-4290

Re: Resize Current Selection Box smaller, without horizontal scroll bar

atsushi_saijo — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 10:50:18 GMT

Thank you for fast response. I attempted, but there seems certain minimum width, and cannot drag to the left.

Re: Resize Current Selection Box smaller, without horizontal scroll bar

atsushi_saijo — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 10:57:32 GMT

Thank you for feedback. It is interesting to use of text box with:

=' Current Selections: ' &

if(vShowCS = 1, ' Click Here To Hide',

if(isnull(GetCurrentSelections()), 'Nothing selected',

GetCurrentSelections(' | ', ': ', ',')))

However, it lacks ability to remove the selection. But I will add it as an indicator on the top of the screen,

Re: Resize Current Selection Box smaller, without horizontal scroll bar

atsushi_saijo — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 11:05:04 GMT

It's quite intriguing. Another developer has her standard selection box like this. I imported her box to my doc, and it is still fine without horizontal bar.

Re: Resize Current Selection Box smaller, without horizontal scroll bar

morganaaron — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 11:10:20 GMT

If you follow what the document suggests, when a user then clicks on the "selections bar" it will show the full selections box and allow you to make/remove selections. If you need the user to be able to remove from the box as is then yes, unfortunately it won't offer that functionality.

Re: Resize Current Selection Box smaller, without horizontal scroll bar

atsushi_saijo — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 11:11:25 GMT

You are right. I had to slide upper-right corner. Thank you for your feedback.

Re: Resize Current Selection Box smaller, without horizontal scroll bar

atsushi_saijo — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 11:15:48 GMT

This is very interesting. I missed the comment section in the app. I will implement this in current app too.

Thank you for fast feedback.

Re: Resize Current Selection Box smaller, without horizontal scroll bar

stevedark — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 13:39:51 GMT

Thanks for posting the link to my example Aaron.

Re: Resize Current Selection Box smaller, without horizontal scroll bar

jonnaamb — Mon, 16 Jan 2017 07:58:24 GMT

Hello experts,

Continuing the above context, if we look at the screen shot of Atsushi Saijo, I'm facing an issue with Fields column where FieldOne and FieldTwo are not column-width optimized so they'll be seen as FieldO and FieldT

Please let me know how to correct this issue. It's a standard Current selection box, not a custom one.

Thanks and regards,

Ambareesh Jonnavittula

Re: Resize Current Selection Box smaller, without horizontal scroll bar

stevedark — Mon, 16 Jan 2017 08:48:40 GMT

If you hover your mouse over the end where the field name is truncated you will see the cursor change to indicate it can be used to resize the column. Left click and drag to give yourself more room here.

Giving more room to the column names though will in turn give you less room for the selection values.

What I tend to do is keep the current selection box minimised, with a counter of current selections. Users can then double click to maximise. An example of this can be seen here:

QlikView App - Generic Data Profiler

Alternatively you can use the app that morganaaron‌ has posted a link to above which has a more dynamic selections box.

Hope that helps,

Steve