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Anonymous
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Alternate States and Drill-Down Groups

Has anyone gotten this to work in QlikView 11?

I have some alternate states set up for comparison purposes and was hoping to use a drill-down chart that I'm using elsewhere in the same document.

* I copied the working drill-down chart into two new places and assigned each its own alternate state.

* No, they're new objects, not links!

No mas. When I attempt to make a selection and drill down, it simply doesn't drill down - I get a single bar.

Has anyone else gotten these two to work together, or might this be Yet Another QlikView Bug?

Thanks,

Kent

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bhorneber
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Hi all,

based on Cesar's answer I build a file using conditional dimensions (with function GetPossibleCount) and a text object with actions (to clear selections).

It's not a solution, but might help some people to build a workaround.

Benedikt

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This is working as expected/designed.

Groups(drill down/cyclic) are defined under Document Properties, which reflects the entire document with a default state, rather than a particular object with an alternate state.

This is a consequence of the fact the groups are defined globally for the entire document and not locally for a specific object, and the way alternate states is implemented.  Alternate states only propagates to a specified object (i.e. not a global group).

Anonymous
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Daniel,

I can understand that it's working as "expected" because it sounds like Alternate States were an outgrowth of Detach. However, I sure hope it wasn't "designed" that way - There's already an awful lot of weird undocumented dependencies, quirks, and inconsistencies in QlikView that are the antithesis of good design.

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You apply the alternate state to a Set expression and not the sheet or an object on a sheet. Do this and drill down works as it should.

e.g SUM({yourAlternateState<your Set Expression>}your Variable)

bhorneber
Luminary Alumni
Luminary Alumni

Hi John,

could you please provide a demo file (feel free to use my attached file from above)?

I tried, but cannot make your proposal work.

Anonymous
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Yes, agreed. this does work.

It's a bit of a mission though but it does work.

Anonymous
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Thank , this has helped

How would the condition statement "=if(GetPossibleCount(Country)=1,False(),True())"  look


if i want to create a drill down to the 4th dimension e.g. Continent>Country>State>City ?


Regards

Anonymous
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hi Nhlanhla, i have the same problem as you do. I am curious did you find a solution? thanks

Anonymous
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HI Jinhua

In my case I wanted to drill down 4 levels. Province>Local_Market>Centre>Name.

Each level gets more specific.

NBA drilldown.PNG

The conditional statements I used for each level were as follows:

Province_NBA : =if(GetPossibleCount(PROVINCE_NBA)=1,False(),true())

Local_Market: =if(GetPossibleCount(PROVINCE_NBA)=1,True(),False())

Centre_NBA: =if(GetPossibleCount(LOCAL_MARKET)=1,True(),False())

AE_Name_NBA: =if(GetPossibleCount(CENTRE_NBA)=1,True(),False())

At each level the formula counts the level above it except for the first 2 levels. If you want your graph to drill down more than 2 levels you will have to use a line chart because bar graphs don't drill down more than 2 levels.

This is how my graph looks

First level:  Province_NBA : =if(GetPossibleCount(PROVINCE_NBA)=1,False(),true())

Second level:  Local_Market: =if(GetPossibleCount(PROVINCE_NBA)=1,True(),False())

Third level: Centre_NBA: =if(GetPossibleCount(LOCAL_MARKET)=1,True(),False())

Fourth level:  AE_Name_NBA: =if(GetPossibleCount(CENTRE_NBA)=1,True(),False())

I hope this was helpful.