I am trying to create dynamic buttons using the entries made in a field. I have a field called shows that contains show names. I want the button labels to reflect those names.
I have looked at using text fields as the labels and Set Field, but I cannot make a loop work to get the names.
Any help or direction is appreciated.
Thanks
It looks like you are trying to do something complicated where you do not need it.
I think, you have a field where you have a list of entries separated by carriage returns and you want every entry to appear as a label on a button.
In FileMaker 13 the default button label can not be calculated, so you will need to create buttons without labels and create and place the labels on top of them.
You will have to set labels to Insert/Merge.. and decide if you use calculated fields or global variables. You will need extra fields for calculating stored labels or you will need to populate your variables through the script.
To get the list item you can use GetValue() with a list (your field) and item number (starts at 1) as parameters.
As Michael mentioned, to make it dynamic you will have to use a portal, you are better off storing your labels as separate records.
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I would like to add on a map a calculated field, that show the progression between 2 values overtime. So I did this on a separated views, using the month, the value and using a double table calculation to get that. But now I want to add it to my map view and I can't get the Date property on it without breaking everything (I only can use the latitude and the longitude) which is a problem I encountered on another views aswell.
So is there a way to add a dimension to a view, but define it as unused (so it does not appear on the graph, or modify the data already there on any way), so I can use my calculated properties and display it as a tooltip for example. Or maybe another way to achieve this since I'm a little stucked right now :)
Working on Tableau desktop[Making a visualization] have two filters one cascaded to another.Need a help when making multiple selections in one filter should disable another filter. If one selection is made in a filter then other filter should be enabled and shown.
Looking for answers
Tableau graph
You could solve this in a dashboard using the sheet/object swapping and popping technique as explained here. Basically how it works is having a dummy sheet which is empty on a certain condition but which will have values if not. The parameter will be placed below this sheet which results in it moving downwards/upwards whenever the condition changes. Together with a motionless opaque text field it becomes possible to hide the filter. I tested the solution underneath.
You will need a calculated field hide_names which results in True if the condition is filled. In your case:
if COUNTD([Manager]) > 1 then False else True end
Next create a dummy worksheet which you will fill with another calculated field which does almost nothing e.g. 'a'. This sheet will be used to 'pop out' the filter in your dashboard. To have this functionality you need to drag the newly created hide_names into filters and filter on the custom value False.
Now let's look at the dashboard.
First bring in the original sheet together with the relevant filters.
Right click the manager filter and select "all using this data source". This way your dummy sheet will also be aware of changes in the filter.
Then create a horizontal floating object in which you need to drag the names filter. On top of the names you need to drag the dummy sheet so if the sheet is active it will push down the second filter.
What you should have now is once you select more than one manager a sheet containing 'a' is shown and the second filter is pushed down. This is not ideal. You will need one or two more things depending on the actual lay-out of your dashboard.
You can make your dummy sheet entirely white by changing the format so all rows/columns/text display white, disabling the tooltip and removing headers and titles.
Create a new empty floating text object. Right click on it and select format text object. Select white shading for this object. This way it becomes opaque. Drag and change dimensions of this object so it hides the second filter whenever the dummy sheet is shown.
Once you have all of these elements you can sort of play with it to make it work. You can find a demo of a dashboard with similar but not exactly the same functionality here.
I'm using Tableau Desktop v9.0. I have data that looks like this:
code,items
02050252,7
03040620,19
03060423,3
I want to create a bar chart of the items grouped by the first two characters of the code field.
So effectively a chart that shows this underlying data:
new_code,items
02,7
03,22
Is it possible to do this within Tableau? Or do I need to group the data manually myself first?
You can definitely do this within Tableau.
Make sure that your code column is a string. If it's not, right click on it in the dimensions section and choose Change Data Type.
Then, create a calculated field (Analysis -> Create Calculated Field) and enter the expression LEFT([Code], 2), which will take the first two characters of the code field.
Drag your new_code field to the Rows shelf and Items to the Columns shelf and voila, you have your desired data. You can of course change the type of the chart, make it a table, etc. from here.
I group my table by 3 attributes, and set page break on every group, and now i want to display that three attribute outside the table. I want to place them on the top of the report, and when i type the expression and i go in run view it's display only the first value, when i go to the next page nothing change
I tried to drag field from table, from data set, and nothing working.
In expression i type
=Fields!My_Field.Value.
Also if some of that three attributes i placed in table it normally displays values, but when i try to move it somewhere it stops displaying.
The issue is that a table is associated with a dataset but a text box is not.
You can reference a field from a text box using the Dataset field ( =Sum(Fields!AMOUNT.Value, "Dataset1") ) but you need to use an aggregate function like First, Last, or SUM.
It sounds like you don't want to use an aggregate since you are grouping by these fields, though.
display the three attribute outside the table
If your trying to display the current grouping in the table at the top of each page, add a new Row in your matrix above your header row and add your group fields there.
I am already using Filemaker Pro 10, I have two questions:
I have a text field in a portal, and whenever I am entering values like "B12C45" in it, it works well, but when the string is longer like "BC12F42, B45z87" it doesn't show whole the strings and omits the letters from it. what Can I do?
My second question is that: I have a portal in a layout, in this portal every row has an id sometimes the id is repeated in other rows but the value of another field called Position is changing. Now I want to have those rows of this portal which have the same id in another layout. I have tried using scripts for it, but scripts don't work well in this case, and they are entering whole the portal in the new layout not the parts I want . How can I write a script which does this?
I will really appreciate any help.
For the first question there are many ways you could display more data in a field and the best one will depend on the particular implementation in your database. There are three main ways to solve this problem: field-size adjustments, text-size adjustments and programming adjustments to dynamically change the text-size.
Field-size adjustments include:
Making the field longer
Using the autosizing aspect of a field so that as the window grows, so does the field
Text-size adjustments include:
Making the font size for that field smaller.
Setting the font style for that field to condensed.
Programatically, though, three things stand out to me as possibilities. I like the third one the best for most of my solutions:
Set the tooltip for the field to "Self" (without the quotes). A user can see the entire contents of the field by hovering the mouse over the field.
In "Define Database" set the field's calculated value to: "TextStyleAdd(self;Condense)" (without the quotes) and make certain that "Do not replace existing value of field" is turned off
Use Conditional formatting to add the Condense style or use a smaller font when the number of the characters in the field gets long.
The steps for using conditional formatting are as follows:
In layout mode select the field and select 'Conditional Formatting...' from the pop-up menu
Add a new condition
Change the condition to 'Formula is'
In the text field enter "Length(Self) > 8" (without the quotes)
Press the "More Formatting..." button
Select "Condense" as the Style from the text
You can add multiple conditions, so you might have "Condense" only for Length(Self) > 8 and another condition for Length(Self) > 16 where you set both "Condense" and reduce the Font Size.
As for your second question, I'm not able to get a picture of what you're trying to do from the question you asked. You might be able do the following in a script:
Go to Related Record [the portal relationship]
Sort Records [by ID]
And then use a summary field (Count of ID) to determine how many of each ID you have.
If you clarified what you were trying to do, gave more information about your tables and table occurrences, we might be able to provide a better answer for this instance.