Climber Selection Bar

Horizontal selection bar with initial selection capabilities. Selections through both click and swipes.

Purpose and Description

The selection bar that also serves as a "trigger" for initial selections. For feature list see screenshots below.

Works only with Qlik Sense 3.0 and up!!

Screenshots

1. Field - Standard horizontal selection from any field in the application. Intended for use with Year/Month field but will of course work with any field.
   
2. Variable - For variable selection of single ("always one selected") variable. Typical use is for currency selection.
   
3. Flags - Easy country selection where you don't have room for a map but want something that looks nice.
   
4. Initial selection - Any field/variable can be set for an initial selection using an expression or comma separated list.
   

Installation

1. Download the latest version of Qlik Sense (3.0 or higher)
2. Qlik Sense Desktop
   • To install, copy all files in the .zip file to folder "C:\Users[%Username%]\Documents\Qlik\Sense\Extensions\cl-horizontalselectionbar"
3. Qlik Sense Server
   • See instructions how to import an extension on Qlik Sense Server

Configuration

• Select the typ of list you need (Field,Variable or Flag)
• Enter a reference to:
  • Field - Any field or an expression that works as a dimension
  • Variable - Has to be an existing variable created either in the script or the gui. Selectable variables are entered in a comma separated list.
  • Flag - Select a field that has a country name corresponding with the flag names. (Has to be a perfect match with the flag name so check the list of flags if you are not sure.)
• Add a field label
• Add an initial selection if you want. This will also work with expressions such as "=Year(Today())-1".
• You can set initial selections to be set once per session or every time you move to a sheet.

Contributing

Contributing to this project is welcome. The process to do so is outlined below:

1. Create a fork of the project
2. Work on whatever bug or feature you wish
3. Create a pull request (PR)

I cannot guarantee that I will merge all PRs.

Author

Karl Fredberg @ Climber

• http://github.com/ClimberAB

Change Log

See CHANGELOG

License & Copyright

The software is made available "AS IS" without any warranty of any kind under the MIT License (MIT).

See Additional license information for this solution.