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balexbyrd
Contributor III
Contributor III

Qlik Sense 2.1 Engine API; AddAlternateState method

Adding an alternate state to the document using the Qlik Engine API is pretty straight forward. I know the Alternate State exists and how one can use the alternate state in an expression using set analysis on the visualization objects.

How do we apply the Alternate State to a field object to be used as a filter? If I can't apply an alternate state to a filter object, I can't use the filters within that Alternate state in the expression in my visualization objects.

Do I use GetObject() and then SetProperties() using the qStateName: parameter set from the AddAlternateState method?

Any help?

Regards,

Alex

Resources for others:

http://help.qlik.com/sense/2.1/en-US/developer/#../Subsystems/EngineAPI/Content/Classes/AppClass/App...

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Alexander_Thor
Employee
Employee

That was just QlikView, we don't cascade states in Qlik Sense.

Here is a sample that is working against the app you attached previously, Sales Discovery_ab.qvf

I haven't edited the app at all, just loaded it up using the script attached and refreshed the app after it ran.

altstate.PNG

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Alexander_Thor
Employee
Employee

Hey Alex,

Here is a sample using qsocks that will add a alternate state, then patch a list object to use that new state.

var qsocks = require('qsocks')

qsocks.Connect({appname: 'Sales Discovery.qvf'}).

then(function(global) {

  return global.openDoc('Sales Discovery.qvf')

})

.then(function(app) {

  app.addAlternateState('MyNewState').then(function() {

       return app.getObject('QEECN').then(function(object) {

            return object.applyPatches([{

                 "qPath": '/qListObjectDef/qStateName',

                 "qOp": 'add',

                 "qValue": '"MyNewState"'

            }])

       })

  })

  .then(function() {

       app.doSave();

  })

})

Or as a Gist if the syntax highlighting is a bit annoying here

https://gist.github.com/mindspank/cbd243cdf4ec15f365eb

This is the end result, top Listbox is now in its own state

altstate.PNG

balexbyrd
Contributor III
Contributor III
Author

Thank you for the quick reply.

I was walking through the logic in the Engine API Explorer and it didn't like the format of the parameters. Received a "Path value not on valid JSON format."

My Alternate State exists;

Checking the documentation the qValue should have a \" infront of the string values.

I tried a bunch of different ways to pass the alternate state name and received errors every time. I don't know how you did the above Maybe you have a demo you could attach?

applyPatches method

balexbyrd
Contributor III
Contributor III
Author

Also tried using qsocks.bundle.js and it doesn't work.

var config = { 

  host: 'localhost',  // Server name

  isSecure: false  //true on server

}; 

 

function connect() { 

     qsocks.Connect().then(function(global) {

        // from the global handle we can invoke methods from the global class

        return global.openDoc('Demo.qvf')

    })

    .then(function(app) {

        // returns a app handle which we can invoke app methods on

       

        app.addAlternateState("MyNewState").then(function() {  

           return app.getObject("GxUjhtd").then(function(object) { 

                return object.applyPatches([{ 

                     "qPath": '/qListObjectDef/qStateName', 

                     "qOp": 'add', 

                     "qValue": '"MyNewState"' 

                }]) 

           })  

      });

       

    })

    .then(function() {

        console.log('All Done')

    })

};

connect();

Alexander_Thor
Employee
Employee

The \ is just to escape the double quotes.

You can see in my example that I'm using single quotes instead of escaping the double quote.

I see you altered the example I submitted, did you call the DoSave method?
Otherwise you are not saving the properties.

Edit: I'd also recommend the latest Help documentation instead of 1.1 as we added more examples in there, https://help.qlik.com/sense/2.1/en-us/developer/Subsystems/EngineAPI/Content/Classes/GenericObjectCl...

balexbyrd
Contributor III
Contributor III
Author

Do you know why this wouldn't work? I've tried every way I could think of to pass the qValue and I still get errors.

Is it possible for you to attach a working demo with the full scripts/html you used? I can only get qsocks.bundle.js to run as I've had issues with using just straight require like you have.

Alexander_Thor
Employee
Employee

So the qValue you should set is a string but since it's json you need to pass in the double qoutes so either pass in

"qValue": '"MyNewState"'

or

"qValue": "\"MyNewState\""

In the second example the backslash is used to escape the double quote so it's parsed correctly as you send it to the engine.

Alexander_Thor
Employee
Employee

Here is again the same script but running in a html file instead.

You should be able to run it straight from file:// just replace the appname with a app in your desktop and a Object ID for a listbox that exists in your app.

altstate.PNG

balexbyrd
Contributor III
Contributor III
Author

Alexander,

Thank you so much for your continued replies and help. I'm about to give up trying to get this to work on qs desktop and try it on the server. It may also be a procedural issue:

1. I downloaded your test.html

2. I added a new screen to 'Sales Discovery' and added two new objects that were the same field "Channel Name" just like you have it.

3. I then found out one of the objects ID's and put that into the test.html script.

4. I then opened the test.html file in a browser and let the script run.

5. I then refreshed my Sales Discovery app using f5.

6. My filters are still on the same state.

prior to this, I reinstalled QS to make sure it wasn't a bug on my end. How in the world are you getting this to work! Thanks again.

Alexander_Thor
Employee
Employee

Hmm, that is strange.
I'm running Desktop also and rolled back to 2.1 just to be sure that it would work there also which it did. Also tried restarting my Desktop instance a few times just in case but it still works on my end.

Are you trying to target a Filterpane with multiple fields in it? Because then the path will most likely be different.

If you can share the app you have been testing against I can try it on my end so we have the same IDs, just in case