topic Activate Object in QlikView

Activate Object

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 21:31:12 GMT

I wanted a button that would hide/show charts. I figure the 'Activate Object' will do that for me but I don't know how to identify the object. How do I determine the unique identifier for the chart object I want to activate?

Activate Object

rwunderlich — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 22:36:47 GMT

The objectId can be found on the object properties General Tab, ObjectId field. However, Activate does not show/hide charts. Note also that Activate is obsolete in QV11.

If you want to show/hide charts, use the Conditional Show property on the object Layout tab. Usually we put a variable name there and then toggle the variable value between 0 (false) and -1 (true) to hide or show the object.

-Rob

Activate Object

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 02:14:45 GMT

@MonkeyHouse - what does your design entail? User choices for different graphs or you want to show graphs only if a certain event occurs.

For the prior you can use as Rob said the Conditional Show - maybe in conjunction with variables. For the latter you can maybe use Container Objects. I used it to replace dropdown choices where I had conditional shows on the charts - I found Container Objects to be a much more elegant solution. Note you'll need QV10 or higher to installed.