Databases Reference
In-Depth Information
5.
In the
Sort by
section, uncheck the
Text
option, and mark the
Load
Order
checkbox.
6.
Click on
OK
to apply the settings and close the
Multi Box Properties
page.
The resulting multi box should look like the one shown in the following screenshot.
Notice how the list of values is expandable when clicking on each field. Also note
that the sort order for the
Distance Interval
is no longer alphabetical, but uses the
order in which the values were loaded into QlikView:
During this exercise, you may have noticed that, unlike the listbox, the
Sort
tab for
the multi box contains multiple fields and that we can set different sort orders for
each field. This is also the case for the alignment options on the
Presentation
tab and
the number format options on the
Number
tab. This is not only true for multi boxes,
but for any object that contains multiple dimensions and/or expressions, such as
table boxes and charts.
The Current Selections Box
QlikView lets us select data in many different ways: listboxes, clicking in charts and
entering search terms, just to name a few. While this is incredibly flexible, it can also
become hard to see which information is actually selected at any given moment.
Fortunately, QlikView has an option to show the user exactly which selections are
currently applied to the data: the
Current Selections
dialog. To open this dialog, we
simply need to press
Ctrl
+
Q
or select
View
|
Current Selections
from the menu
bar. This floats the
Current Selections
dialog window on top of our worksheet. Once
we have had a glance at the
Current Selections
window, we can close the dialog.
It is sometimes useful to permanently display the
Current Selections
dialog. This
is where the
Current Selections Box
object comes in handy. To add a
Current
Selections Box
object to our
Dashboard
sheet, follow these steps:
1.
Select
Layout
|
New Sheet Object
|
Current Selections Box
.
2.
Click on
OK
to apply the settings and close the
New Current Selections Box
dialog window.
