topic Applying a filter to a chart - Tabular report in Reporting Service & Alerting

Applying a filter to a chart - Tabular report

florian63 — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 08:54:06 GMT

Hello,

Our company is in the process of moving to Qlik Cloud. We are in the process of migrating Nprinting reports to the cloud, mainly tabular reports, as they are based on Excel models.

On some reports, we are encountering migration problems. For example, we are applying a filter on a line graph for data from a specific week (filter CSL_Last_Week_Actual_Year on graph <wyEBjY>, screenshot below of Nprinting design).

When I export this Nprinting template to a tabular report template (with "Export Qlik Cloud reports" on Qlik Nprinting web console), I get an error because this functionality is not available in tabular reports : "Object filters are not supported. The following tags will not be filtered"

How can I apply a specific filter to a specific graph on Qlik Cloud Reporting? With tabular reports, Pixelperfect, automation, etc...

Thanks,

Florian

Re: Applying a filter to a chart - Tabular report

Lech_Miszkiewicz — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 09:13:56 GMT

Hi @florian63

simple answer is: you cannot.

This is well known and documented gap between NPrinting and Tabular Reporting.

The workaround could be to use:

dedicated chart with set analysis or variable filter
dedicated chart with alternate state since tabular reporting supports alternate states.

cheers

Lech

Re: Applying a filter to a chart - Tabular report

florian63 — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 13:52:38 GMT

@Lech_Miszkiewicz Thank you very much for your fast answer ! I have to admit I didn't know about this gap..

@Andrew_Kruger I heard a few months ago that the chart filter functionality might soon be available in Tabular report? Is it true?

Do you have any news about the progress of this feature or a roadmap for it?

Or maybe it's not planned, and I just didn't understand correctly.

Thank you very much,

Florian

Re: Applying a filter to a chart - Tabular report

Andrew_Kruger — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 18:07:37 GMT

Thanks for the post.

In Qlik Cloud Analytics for "like" capability you can consider using Alternate states - have a look at the filtering section here https://help.qlik.com/en-US/cloud-services/Subsystems/Hub/Content/Sense_Hub/Reporting/cloud-in-app-reports-filters.htm.

Feel free to add the interest for Object level filters to Ideation. As far as cloud reporting goes Ideation is up to date for idea lifecycle status.

Re: Applying a filter to a chart - Tabular report

florian63 — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 16:14:08 GMT

Hello Andrew,
Thank you very much for your reply. I'm going to look into the possibilities offered by the alternate states.

We followed your recommendation and created an idea, which you can find at the following address:

Request | Feedback

As a workaround, can we overcome this problem with automation? or Pixelperfect ?

Thank you, Florian

Re: Applying a filter to a chart - Tabular report

Andrew_Kruger — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 16:57:00 GMT

Please see the post here for an example of using Alternate States for the purpose of an object based field reduction. https://community.qlik.com/t5/Qlik-Reporting-Service/Filtering-an-object-in-a-report-Tabular-and-PixelPerfect-Report/m-p/2503362/thread-id/1399

Re: Applying a filter to a chart - Tabular report

SharonLevy1 — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 08:43:37 GMT

Hey,

There are any updates regarding this feature, or if it’s currently included in the roadmap?
Thank you for your time and help.

Re: Applying a filter to a chart - Tabular report

Lech_Miszkiewicz — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 10:01:58 GMT

Hi @SharonLevy1

it is on the list for consideration: https://community.qlik.com/t5/Reporting-Service-Alerting/Delivering-analytic-reports-to-the-inbox-H1-reporting-roadmap/td-p/2522150 (object filters)

as per this very recent post.
cheers

Re: Applying a filter to a chart - Tabular report

SharonLevy1 — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 10:06:23 GMT

Good news! Thank you!

Re: Applying a filter to a chart - Tabular report

SharonLevy1 — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 13:23:18 GMT

Hi, it’s me again.
Do you have any update on the Object-level filters that were planned for Q2 2025?
We have many reports that rely on object-level filtering, and we’re debating whether to wait for the update or start rebuilding the reports now, which would take a significant amount of time.

Thank you

Re: Applying a filter to a chart - Tabular report

martingries — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 10:43:30 GMT

Hi @Andrew_Kruger

would be very helpful to hear, if or when we could expect the solution "chart filter"

Alternate states is a huge effort and that "little topic" would make life so much easier

So please give us a christmas gift 😉

BR
Martin

Re: Applying a filter to a chart - Tabular report

Lech_Miszkiewicz — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 12:20:23 GMT

@martingries - this feature is on Roadmap so i think it is a matter of “when?” This becomes available.
I wouldn’t expect it in this year though. There are other things in pipeline to be released so lets keep our expectations realistic.
cheers