topic reuse buttons on multiple sheets in QlikView

reuse buttons on multiple sheets

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:07:40 GMT

hi, is there a way to save a group of common buttons and reuse them on multiple sheets by group import?

The alternative is to copy and paste each individual button and this is time consuming + a pain when the actions of each button have to be changed.

reuse buttons on multiple sheets

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:29:49 GMT

You can copy and paste a multiple objects as well......

you can use a themes......but i think or i dont know how can use that......is not really pratice!!!!

I still prefer copy and paste!!!!!!more faster and easy for my solutions!!!!

reuse buttons on multiple sheets

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:57:44 GMT

thanks erico, do you have any examples or resources to illustrate the copy and paste multiple objects function + how themes can be used in this way?

What i basically want to do is create a set of buttons and then group them so they can be 'pasted by group'.

It would be very useful if i could build a custom header/footer with these buttons so they can be used on every sheet.

Any thoughts?

reuse buttons on multiple sheets

johnw — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:04:17 GMT

"Group save" them by selecting them all and hitting Ctrl-C. "Group Import" them by hitting Ctrl-V. I'm not sure how having actions on the buttons would make this any more difficult since the actions are copied as well.

reuse buttons on multiple sheets

johnw — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:06:49 GMT

You select multiple objects the same way you do in most Windows programs. Either drag an outline around them all, or Ctrl-click on each in turn. Unfortunately, the ctrl-click approach won't really work on buttons, since it interprets the click as pressing the button instead of just selecting that object. But dragging works fine, assuming your buttons are arranged together in some way, such as by having them all at the top of the screen in a "header".

reuse buttons on multiple sheets

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:12:48 GMT

thanks John, this may be very simple but i am unable to GROUP SAVE the buttons by hitting ctrl-c

reuse buttons on multiple sheets

rwunderlich — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:27:51 GMT


John Witherspoon wrote:Ctrl-click on each

I think you meant Shift-click for Qlikview.


John Witherspoon wrote:it interprets the click as pressing the button instead of just selecting that object

Shift-click will fire the button if pressed in the middle, but it also selects You just don't always get a select indicator. So you can select multiple buttons in this way.

You can keep the button from firing on a Shift-click by clicking when you have a sizing handle -- when hovering on the edge of the button.

-Rob

reuse buttons on multiple sheets

johnw — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:42:30 GMT


Rob Wunderlich wrote:I think you meant Shift-click for Qlikview.

Yep. Whoops. And no wonder it didn't work when I tried it on multiple buttons with ctrl-click!

reuse buttons on multiple sheets

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 08:15:23 GMT

QlikView 10 includes a feature to be able to have the same object in several locations, with each modification done to it propagating to other instances of the object