topic Re: Hide Text Box when Object is not selected in Container in QlikView

Hide Text Box when Object is not selected in Container

ivandrago — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 15:32:40 GMT

Hi,

I want a Text Object to Hide when a different Object within the container is selected, is this possible?

Thanks

Re: Hide Text Box when Object is not selected in Container

vgutkovsky — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 15:38:32 GMT

Ivan,

No, this is not possible. There is currently no way to check what object is active in a container. To get around this problem, I usually just create buttons and hide/show groups of objects based on those buttons--i.e. I just avoid the container altogether. Depending on client requirements, I sometimes make the buttons look like container buttons so users may not even know the difference.

Regards,

Vlad

Re: Hide Text Box when Object is not selected in Container

jagan — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 15:38:48 GMT

Hi,

There is no event/method to capture which object is selected in Container, so by using container it is not possible. You can do this by using buttons and variables.

Regards,

Jagan.

Re: Hide Text Box when Object is not selected in Container

Gysbert_Wassenaar — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 15:47:26 GMT

I think the only way to do this is with a macro.

sub GetIndex

Set obj = ActiveDocument.GetSheetObject("CT01")

Set p =obj.GetProperties

vIndex= p.SingleObjectActiveIndex

ActiveDocument.Variables("vIndex").SetContent vIndex, true

End Sub

And set the conditional display expression of the text box to something like if(vIndex=2,1,0) to show it when the third object in the container is active and otherwise hide it.

Re: Hide Text Box when Object is not selected in Container

ivandrago — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 16:40:12 GMT

Hi Gysbert,

Have you got a example document, I'm using version 11 sr2; I've tried to do what you asking but does not seem to be working?

Re: Hide Text Box when Object is not selected in Container

Gysbert_Wassenaar — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 16:50:56 GMT

Sorry, I forgot it won't work in QV11 since the OnActivate object triggers were removed in that version.

Re: Hide Text Box when Object is not selected in Container

ivandrago — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 20:25:39 GMT

Thanks for your advice guys! Hopefully QlikTech will have a workaround the next release as its useful function the Container.