topic Re: Tabs on a Container object in QlikView

Tabs on a Container object

richard_chilvers — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 15:40:11 GMT

Does anyone have any hints regarding the tabs on a Container object. My main issue is finding a good way to highlight the tab which has been selected. This is especially tricky where there are just 2 tabs. One shows darker than the other, but which is the selected one ?

Re: Tabs on a Container object

alexandros17 — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 15:45:43 GMT

Maybe you could choose other colours (blue, red ...) in order to show the selected one. (I use Blue)

Re: Tabs on a Container object

giakoum — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 15:46:45 GMT

Well, that is actually a good question

You could write it on the chart caption :

"Hey user, the right tab is selected"

Just joking of course, but if you duplicate the same caption in the chart as in the container tab, it will be clear I guess

Re: Tabs on a Container object

richard_chilvers — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 15:52:33 GMT

Yes, I have tried including the chart caption, but this seems to confuse people even more. This is probably because the chart titles are often very similar.

Re: Tabs on a Container object

richard_chilvers — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 15:57:37 GMT

Ah, are you suggesting a colour which is calculated based on a condition? If so, what would the condition be to choose a colour based on the tab having been selected?

Re: Tabs on a Container object

alexandros17 — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 16:11:56 GMT

Take a look at this example, I think it's quite clear which tab is selected!

Re: Tabs on a Container object

richard_chilvers — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 16:18:54 GMT

Hi Alessandro

That's more or less what I have done, but as I suggested, when there are just 2 tabs, I think its less obvious which is selected.

Re: Tabs on a Container object

alexandros17 — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 16:21:33 GMT

Unfortunately you cannot do more ...

Re: Tabs on a Container object

tcullinane — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 16:31:57 GMT

You could probably set a variable that changes on selection of the chart, then use this variable in a conditional statement in each chart caption to display something like '(active)' or possibly change the text format to bold/larger font.

Re: Tabs on a Container object

alexandros17 — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 16:35:58 GMT

No you cannot because there is not a trigger that "listen" the changing of tabs

Re: Tabs on a Container object

tcullinane — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 16:46:17 GMT

That's unfortunate. I suppose creating a 'custom' container (ie. not using an actual container) using buttons to trigger show/hide on charts would be an alternative then.