Can we have sliders taking alphanumeric and text values

[kkkumar82]

Hello All,

I have a situation where I have a list box named Quarter year, by the name you can except the values it can have like

Q1'12,Q2'12........., Q1'16.

Now I want to have a slider for this field where I want to select two Quarters and I want to run the analytics.

The problem I have is when go for the properties and select "field" in the slider nothing is shown on the slider and even the slider got struck.

As of now I maintaining it with numeric values for the thing to work, but is there a chance to make it work, the slider

or any other suggestion is suggestible.

Regards

KK

[Peter_Cammaert]

Whenever you are sending the slider value through some function, the text value is lost. You can easily recreate it using an expression. It would be better if the numerical value is still a date instead of an articifial year and quarter, so that you can do limit checks or calculations on those.

If you do not want all selected values, but just the first and last quarter, use Min () and Max() in a text box or in an expression to display those values or restrict some object to quarters between those limits. In expressions it's always better to use the date value instead of the text string.

Best,

Peter