When Are charts Rendered??

[prees959]

Hi,

I have a an app that uses variables to show if a chart should be shown (or not).  My question is are charts rendered "in the background" on sheets that aren't currently activated?  Im trying to speed up our application and show/hide variables are used across different sheets...

Should I use a second variable eg , show_this_chart=1 and current_page='this_page' ?  Or doesn't matter?

Many thanks,

Phil

[atoz1158]

Hi Phil

We use the Calculation Conditions option on the General Tab of chart proprieties dialog rather than the show condition on the Layout tab together with a custom error message informing the user what they need to do for the chart to display which may be as simple as clicking a show chart button right up to a complex set of required selections being made first.

We found that this did improve the time that it took to load the first tab of the document and also improved move from tab to tab within the document.

Regards

Adrian

[prees959]

HI, thanks for the reply.

It more a question if charts are rendered 'in the background' on a non active sheet ?

Thanks,

Phil

[Brett_Bleess]

Phil, as far as I recall, only the active sheet objects are calculated, and I believe hidden objects are not but minimized I cannot recall whether those are or are not.  I found a Design Blog post on the Calculation Engine that may provide some useful help with things though, and there are some further blog URLs at the bottom of that post for further information.  Sorry my memory is not as good as I would like to tell you for sure, but you can sort of tell yourself by checking upon things, but you will need to be sure things are 'clean' when you do the check and that means everything started fresh so you have nothing cached.  Once an object is calculated, that is all cached, so unless the selection state changes etc., we will use the cache if another user makes the same selection set on that sheet...  Hopefully the below helps:

https://community.qlik.com/t5/Qlik-Design-Blog/The-Calculation-Engine/ba-p/1463265

Regards,
Brett