topic How can I get the name of the active bookmark? in QlikView https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/How-can-I-get-the-name-of-the-active-bookmark/m-p/200262#M58859 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Yeeee Haaaww!! - it's Cowboy Qlikview pre-sales work-around time!</P><P>This is a <EM>possible</EM> solution via a work around and may not be practical in a production environment but here goes:</P><P>I've looked for a vb solution to the issue but there seems to be no way to return the current active Bookmark so as a result we're left with the below:</P><P>Bin the Bookmark object. Instead use buttons to select your bookmarks (if there are hundreds obviously this won't work too well), lets say for simplicity we have BM A and BM B, you'd have 2 buttons (you guessed it one labelled 'A' and the other 'B') upon clicking the button labelled 'A' an action is called to 'Apply Bookmark' A and then (here's the crucial bit) set the value of a variable (vCurrentBookmark?) to 'A'. Conversley when button B is pressed BM B is applied and the vCurrentBookmark is changed to 'B'.</P><P>In theory this could work for any number of BM's but above a few it's going to cause issue of managability...as I said; 'Cowboy workaround'.</P><P>Hope that helps,</P><P>Matt - Visual Analytics Ltd</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 26 Jan 2011 18:07:36 GMT matt_crowther 2011-01-26T18:07:36Z How can I get the name of the active bookmark? https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/How-can-I-get-the-name-of-the-active-bookmark/m-p/200260#M58857 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Can someone supply code that will return the name of the active bookmark?</P><P></P><P>Thanks in advance.</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 14 Sep 2010 12:53:37 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/How-can-I-get-the-name-of-the-active-bookmark/m-p/200260#M58857 m_woolf 2010-09-14T12:53:37Z How can I get the name of the active bookmark? https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/How-can-I-get-the-name-of-the-active-bookmark/m-p/200261#M58858 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>i have the same problem, i need the name of the current selected bookmark in my variable.</P><P>please, who can help me with this issue.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:42:14 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/How-can-I-get-the-name-of-the-active-bookmark/m-p/200261#M58858 2011-01-26T16:42:14Z How can I get the name of the active bookmark? https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/How-can-I-get-the-name-of-the-active-bookmark/m-p/200262#M58859 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Yeeee Haaaww!! - it's Cowboy Qlikview pre-sales work-around time!</P><P>This is a <EM>possible</EM> solution via a work around and may not be practical in a production environment but here goes:</P><P>I've looked for a vb solution to the issue but there seems to be no way to return the current active Bookmark so as a result we're left with the below:</P><P>Bin the Bookmark object. Instead use buttons to select your bookmarks (if there are hundreds obviously this won't work too well), lets say for simplicity we have BM A and BM B, you'd have 2 buttons (you guessed it one labelled 'A' and the other 'B') upon clicking the button labelled 'A' an action is called to 'Apply Bookmark' A and then (here's the crucial bit) set the value of a variable (vCurrentBookmark?) to 'A'. Conversley when button B is pressed BM B is applied and the vCurrentBookmark is changed to 'B'.</P><P>In theory this could work for any number of BM's but above a few it's going to cause issue of managability...as I said; 'Cowboy workaround'.</P><P>Hope that helps,</P><P>Matt - Visual Analytics Ltd</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 26 Jan 2011 18:07:36 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/How-can-I-get-the-name-of-the-active-bookmark/m-p/200262#M58859 matt_crowther 2011-01-26T18:07:36Z How can I get the name of the active bookmark? https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/How-can-I-get-the-name-of-the-active-bookmark/m-p/200263#M58860 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>t depends on how you define an "Active" bookmark. Bookmarks set a state but are no longer in play once the state is set. The same state matching a given bookmark could be arrived at through selections. And a user can modify pieces of a bookmark state after the bookmark is applied, making it no longer "active/matching".</P><P>In addition to Matt's suggestion above, Jonathan has offered a novel take on bookmarks here:</P><P><A href="http://yahqblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/novel-bookmark-display.html">http://yahqblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/novel-bookmark-display.html</A></P><P><A href="http://yahqblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/novel-bookmark-display.html"></A>-Rob</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 26 Jan 2011 18:24:15 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/How-can-I-get-the-name-of-the-active-bookmark/m-p/200263#M58860 rwunderlich 2011-01-26T18:24:15Z