Current selections clear out when another selection criteria returns no results

[#1]

I know this is a very basic question, but I've been searching the forum and can't find the answer. Let's say I'm looking at orders.

Issue: when selecting too small of a date range (intentionally or by accident), my current selection of order types (regular and return) gets cleared out b/c there is no data for that date range (this really creates a problem when I lock the order type field for the user, as then they are unable to re-select the appropriate order types and must exit out and reopen the qlikview doc).

Question: How do I simply solve this?

I could obviously create empty order records for every order type for every day of the year, but I'm sure there's better way to go about keeping my current selections regardless of the data it finds. Can't I select regular and return orders regardless of the date range--even if say, I select a Sunday and there are no orders on that date. Shouldn't QlikView just give me 0 records but keep my current order types selection?

This is happening on all my selection boxes.

Thanks for help.

-Ryan

[#2]

Bumping this since I have the same problem.

Trying to use select in field to show the user a detailed view of events in the selected time span but if there are no matching events the time span is cleared.

No replies since 2010 is not very encouraging, hope someone knows how this should be done.

- EDIT -

Worked around my problems by showing the details in a Straight Table Chart with a calculated dimension doing the filtering using a couple of variables.

- Robin

[matthewp]

I'm having the same issue but with a table box.

Surely there is a way to do this?