Linking different apps in the Browser - how to set up the URLs

[datanibbler]

Hi,

I want to implement something like "document chaining", but in the Browser - all between apps that are viewed and used in the Browser, running on the server because the data_load will become too big for local execution.

I know there is some how-to around here for doing that - I had that once, when I developed a Dashboard_system implemented in QlikView, before that entire concept was trashed (by now that is current again, but it's another tool's turn now 😉

I will try searching for this on the forum, but i have relatively little hope of finding it since I don't know what keyword(s) to look for ...

Could someone here tell me how to set up the URl to use for that and how to implement the selection of a specific sheet in the URL - I remember that is possible. Any other selections are not necessary, only the app and the sheet.

Thanks a lot!

Best regards,

DataNibbler

[datanibbler]

Hi,

well, the URL itself is easy - I only have to open an app in the browser and I can copy it from the address_line - I need only a way to specify the sheet.

Another related question: Is there some way to get more shapes in QlikView - like an arrow for links to other documents - without any add-ons to install (installing anything here is not something I can do myself)?

I only know a way to make a textbox appear circular in the Browser - it can take on many more shapes in the Client, but in the Browser, it's only circular or square or square ...

Thanks a lot!

Best regards,

DataNibbler

[Anonymous]

Hi

Please have a look at this link.

The table at the end shows you how to add the command to the URL to select a sheet:

AJAX and URL parameters

Hope this helps!

[marcus_sommer · Accepted solution]

Hi DataNibbler,

I think this: AJAX and URL parameters will be helpful to open on a certain sheet or select something and this for using shapes: Replacing images with Geometric Shapes as visual cues.

- Marcus

[datanibbler]

Hi Marcus,

both links look very good! Thanks indeed!

Actually, about the shapes, the standard shapes that Arturo mentions at the outset of his article would do nicely for me - I want some arrows in this specific instance. Where do I find that image_selector?

Thanks a lot!

Best regards,

Datanibbler

[marcus_sommer]

Hi DataNibbler,

the image-selector is here:

- Marcus

[datanibbler]

Hi Marcus,

thanks again!

One last thing: I have now built some links into my apps to jump from one to the other - in the Browser. All the buttons have URLs, so I cannot really use them in the Client or I would suddenly end up in the Browser. Not a problem, just confusing.

I have looked in the help and found some variables to do with the operating_system and hardware and stuff - but I don't know whether it's possible to tell whether the currently open app is being viewed in the client or in the browser.

Thanks a lot!

Best regards,

DataNibbler

[marcus_sommer]

Hi DataNibbler,

I could imagine that clientplatform() could be used to detect a browser and might be used within a if-loop within your buttons or as visibility-condition to show different ones maybe with a launch-action.

- Marcus

[datanibbler]

In comes the stupid help_file: I cannot search for "clientplatform" because it's on one page with many others ... but I have found it.

I'll just give it a go and open the app once in the client and once in the browser and see what I can see.

P.S.: That works - at least in our environment it does - that function returns "browser.msie" for the Internet_Explorer, which is the standard browser installed on near all machines here, nothing for the locally installed client.

I'll have a colleague try it out on Firefox, just in case - no one here has any other than IE or Firefox for sure - no, I'll make it even simpler: It displays nothing on my locally installed client - I will just assume that the setup of other colleagues'  working_machines is no different from mine, so I can say that if the function does not return a value, I want these buttons to work for regular document_chaining and in all other cases (if it does return some value), I want it to work with the URLs.

Regards,

DataNibbler