QuickView Set Tags

A Spectre QuickView Set script is defined using a quickview-set tag with optional tags between open and close { } braces. This topic describes the tags that can be used within the quickview-set code block. The tags are listed in alphabetical order, after the quickview-set tag, in the following table.

QuickView Set Tags

Tags Examples Notes
quickview-set

quickview-set {

cplan "/cbases/sales.cplan"

dimension-quickview "Region"

}

 Defines the block for the Spectre QuickView Set definition.
alias

dimension-quickview "Direction" label="NSEW" {

alias "dir"

}

 Specifies an alias name for the named QuickView.
all-values dimension-quickview "Date" all-values=false

Indicates that All Values is not an option for the end-user. Spectre's default value for all-values changes based on single-selection. If single-selection=false or it is not set, the default for all-values is true. If single-selection=true, the default for all-values is false.
column

sort {

column "Order Date" reverse=true

}

 Specifies the dimension used in the QuickView for a sort block.
cplan

cplan "/common/basic.cplan"

cplan {

text-input "data.txt"

}

Points to the cPlan in the project.

Can also refer to a text file.
default-values

dimension-quickview "Direction" {

default-values "East" "West"

}

 Sets the values for the default selection.
dependency

quickview-set dependency="circular" {

cplan "/common/basic.cplan"

dimension-quickview "Color"

dimension-quickview "Mood"

dimension-quickview "Taste"

}

Indicates dependencies for individual QuickViews in the set. The default is sequential.

  • A circular dependency means all QuickViews are updated when one is—they all depend on each other.
  • A sequential dependency means that a QuickView is updated only if it is downstream in the hierarchy defined in the qvset script—the higher value dictates what is available in the lower QuickViews.

NOTE: To create independent QuickViews for use on a DivePort page, use separate QuickView Sets and separate QuickView portlets. DivePort will run the QuickView Sets separately, so there is no dependency between them.
dimension-quickview dimension-quickview "Color" Defines a QuickView for the named dimension found in a cPlan.
dimension

dimension-quickview "Region" {

dimension "Sales Region"

}

Names a dimension to differentiate the dimension from the dimension QuickView.
group

quickview-set {

cplan "/common/basic.cplan" {

dimension "Direction" {

group "Northeast" "North" "East"

}

}

dimension-quickview "Color"

dimension-quickview "Direction" {

default-values "Northeast"

}

}

Defines a group for the cPlan that can be used in a dimension QuickView. The group can be defined using specific values or by using an expression. As a sub-component of the dimension definition, the group expression must use the dimension column itself, not other columns in the cBase.

NOTE: Named groups defined in a cPlan can be referred to by a qvset. This approach allows the dive and mrk files to reference the cPlan directly to use the named groups. Named groups are brought in automatically from the cPlan, so there is no extra syntax needed in the qvset file.
include-unknown include-unknown=false Indicates if the unknown value is in the values list.
include-null default-values "North" "South" include-null=false Indicates if a null value is in the default values list. A null value appears as <Blank Value>.
label dimension-quickview "Date" label="Anchor" all-values=false Specifies an alternative label for the dimension QuickView.
list-quickview

list-quickview "Percentile" {

values "All" "5" "10" "20" "50"

}

 Names and defines a List style QuickView and its values.
offset offset=2 Applies an offset to default-last-value or last-value tags.
single-selection single-selection=true

Indicates that only one value can be selected from a QuickView. When such a qvset file is used by a client, the end-user is only allowed to select one value. Adding single-selection=true to a QuickView that does not have an all-values tag will by default set all-values to false.
sort

dimension-quickview "Order Date" {

sort {

column "Order Date" reverse=true

}

}

 Indicates sorting for a dimension quickview. You can only specify one column.
take-parameter

take-parameter "Date" default="2018/06/30"

 Accepts the parameter value from the calling Dive script.
values

list-quickview "Color" all-values=true {

values "Red" "Green" "Blue"

}

 Specifies the QuickView values in line for a list-quickview.

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