topic Re: Button to Filter on value in a Straight Table in QlikView https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Button-to-Filter-on-value-in-a-Straight-Table/m-p/1341996#M843964 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>When you make a selection on an expression, you are actually making selections on the underlying fields. Depending on the expression, this may give results different to what you expected. If you display a current selections box you can see exactly what selections were actually created.</P><P></P><P>The reason is that the expression value is a transient value meaningful only in the table. Selections are done on fields which persist throughout the model.</P><P></P><P>If you replace the expression with a derived field calculating the expression in the load script, you will be able to make simple selections on the derived field.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 19 Apr 2017 12:52:43 GMT jonathandienst 2017-04-19T12:52:43Z Button to Filter on value in a Straight Table https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Button-to-Filter-on-value-in-a-Straight-Table/m-p/1341995#M843963 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P style="font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; color: #3d3d3d;">Hi,</P><P></P><P style="font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; color: #3d3d3d;">&nbsp;&nbsp; I have a Straight table with ID and an Expession, I want to select the values in the expression by creating a Button (Like a Flag between 1 and 0). But Is it possible, I have tried it and attached is the QVW but it is displaying null when I use same expression as a Button.&nbsp; Please help on this.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 25 Nov 2020 16:16:04 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Button-to-Filter-on-value-in-a-Straight-Table/m-p/1341995#M843963 2020-11-25T16:16:04Z Re: Button to Filter on value in a Straight Table https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Button-to-Filter-on-value-in-a-Straight-Table/m-p/1341996#M843964 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>When you make a selection on an expression, you are actually making selections on the underlying fields. Depending on the expression, this may give results different to what you expected. If you display a current selections box you can see exactly what selections were actually created.</P><P></P><P>The reason is that the expression value is a transient value meaningful only in the table. Selections are done on fields which persist throughout the model.</P><P></P><P>If you replace the expression with a derived field calculating the expression in the load script, you will be able to make simple selections on the derived field.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 19 Apr 2017 12:52:43 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Button-to-Filter-on-value-in-a-Straight-Table/m-p/1341996#M843964 jonathandienst 2017-04-19T12:52:43Z