Dynamic Filter Nprinting 17

[ManuelRühl]

Hello,

I want to filter on yesterday by date(today()-1) but the filter doesn't work.

The report is not generated at all.

I tried this:

http://help.qlik.com/en-US/nprinting/17.3/Content/FiltersCycles/StaticDynamicFilters/Static-dynamic-...

"For example, to retrieve the value of the last year, enter =Year(now())-1. "

but neither =Year(now())-1 nor =date(today()-1) works.

Filter option is "evaluate".

In Nprinting 16 it works perfectly.

[Lech_Miszkiewicz · Accepted solution]

Hi

For testing i am attaching an application Total.qvw

I am using this app and i am creating a filter to calculate a yesterdays date in it. I am not having any other filters applied on top of my "Yesterday" filter. If you are using recipient list to distribute reports, make sure that there aint no filters interfering or even excluding each other.

Here are the steps:

1. Create a connection to your QlikView or QlikSense application

2. Recognise what type of data you want to filter. This is important as dates are usualy DUAL values (text and number)

• If field value is numeric you need to create numeric filter
• If field value is DUAL - you need to create numeric filter with numeric value associated to text(dual) value. this may be your issue as dates are usually duals - so you need to create numeric filter for it
• If field value is text - you need to create strng filter

3. in my example my date is actualy numeric value - so i will need to create numeric filter in nprinting 17

4. create a filter in NPrinting - i called my "Yesterday":

...

5. Add fields to your filter:

I have added my Date field and I have chosen to evaluate value to be Yesterday numeric value due to data type recognised in my pt.2. Therefore I am using num(Today()-1)

6. Then simply create a report and add this filter to report or task

(this is my source document and i want it to be filtered by yesterdays date (i am looking at Date Chart table))

(creating nprinting excel template)

(adding filter to report or task - wherever you like)

Create a publish task and see results:

(worked for me )

hope this helps you

cheers

Lech

[Anonymous]

you could alternatively try:

= YOURYEARFIELD = Year(now())-1

(--> deactivate evaluate)

[rubenmarin]

Hi Manuel, I didn't tested but seems that Lech already posted a good answer.

If still doesn't works maybe the problem comes from another way... is the app updated? maybe you are doing tests in an app not scheduled to reload and doesn't have data loaded for yesterday.

Just to give another option, in some cases I found useful use auxiliar field in apps to apply filters:

Calendar?: //Table where date field is loaded

     LOAD ...

     If(DateField=Today()-1, 1, 0) as isYesterday

First you can check in the app if the values are applied correctly, and second you can use this field as the filter by value, without the need of doing evaluations.

[Lech_Miszkiewicz]

I like an idea of flaging records during script reload an refer to flag in Nprinting filters

[Anonymous]

yes, it's a good idea, but the dynamic filters should also work...

[Lech_Miszkiewicz]

Hi Manuel,

did it work for you?

regards

Lech

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[ManuelRühl]

Thanks a lot for your answers!

I think my mistake is around dual and num .....

I didnt have the chance yet to check it, but ill let you know.

[andrefpc]

I Lech, like Manuel I'm struggling with dynamic filters using NPrinting 17.3.

I've tried to follow the steps you described but I get the "Wrong content node response type"

My date is numeric, timestamp. I've tried the filter with num() and timestamp() with no results.

Any ideas?

Maybe it's easier to flag the records that fall in the desired date range?

Thanks in advance,

Andre Costa

[Lech_Miszkiewicz]

Hi Andre,

What formula are you trying to apply in your filter? Is your formula rteturning 1 value or multiple values?

If you can flag records- then i would sugest to do that to keep your filters simpler and keep logic on Qlik side.

regards

Lech