Solved: How to spot an Alternate State has been chosen - Qlik Community

AndyC · ‎2019-10-14

Hi

I'm using Alternate State in my QV document to compare two financial periods.

I have a table with a number of expression based columns and what I want to do is to hide the alternate state column if the user has not selected any of the alternate state options by using the conditional function on the Expression.

Anyone got an idea how to do this?

TIA

Andy

rwunderlich · ‎2019-10-21

You can specify a statename in the GetSelectedCount() function like this:

=GetSelectedCount(Month, False(), 'mystate')

-Rob
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Brett_Bleess · ‎2019-10-21

Just providing the Help for Alternate States, which may seem crazy, but there are some other features of Alternate States I am thinking you may be unaware that may provide a means to do what you wish here, in particular the StateName() function, thinking that may be what you need in your condition...

https://help.qlik.com/en-US/qlikview/12.1/Subsystems/Client/Content/Alternate%20States.htm

Regards,
Brett

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rwunderlich · ‎2019-10-21

You can specify a statename in the GetSelectedCount() function like this:

=GetSelectedCount(Month, False(), 'mystate')

-Rob
http://masterssummit.com
http://qlikviewcookbook.com
http://www.easyqlik.com

AndyC · ‎2019-10-22

That did the trick!

Thanks