Why is the option "Select all" in my criteria bar not active (grey)?

Louise Stub Hansen ·

Consequently the option "Select all" in my criteria bar is grey (not possible to use). Why is that?

It is the same problem whether I use the Windows client or the Anywhere Client, and regardless which dimension I choose.

And for the record it is not just me but all our users I have asked this question, who have the same problem.

Example Anywhere:

Example Windows client:

The problem is that I would like to select all dates except 31-12-9999. So instead of selecting every dates on the long list, I would like to "select all" and then deselect 31-12-9999. I would be mush easier. But the "select all" option doesn't work?

Does anyone know why?

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  • Marlene Knaup

    Hi Louise,

    The button "Tilfoj alle / Apply all" is just useful when you search per text. 

    In this example I searched for U* in Country dimension and it's not grey anymore.

    If you want to exclude one entry, I would suggest to click on "Editor" and select "different from":

     

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  • Louise Stub Hansen

    Hi Marlene

    Thanks for the tip! It is very useful in the Windows client (and I wasn't aware of it - so thanks)

    But I don't have this option to edit or search in the Anywhere client. And all our standard users only have the Anywhere client.

    Any others ideas?

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  • Louise Stub Hansen

    Sorry, I can see that I can do a search and then "Select all" in Anywhere too. It is just placed in the top instead of in the buttom of the window. But I can't "Select all" without doing a search. And I haven't got the option to "Edit". So if I have a long list of categories, and I would like to select all except one, I still don't know how to do this in Anywhere?

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  • Niels Thomsen

    Hi Louise

    I'm afraid that's just how select all works for the time being in the Anywhere Client.
    It will only be active when you have a subset of values found through search.

    There is no shortcut to simply select all without doing a prior search.

    A simple workaround would be to search out all members with a search like this: !xyz

    The ! sign means not in the TARGIT search syntax. So basically you are searching for something not = xyz

    In a list of eg. employee names I guess that would be everyone. Then TARGIT will find all your members and you are able to use the select all button.

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  • Louise Stub Hansen

    Thanks Niels!

    I didn't know the "!..." search option. That will do the job :-)

    Thank you very much. 

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  • Marlene Knaup

    If you click on the yellow marked part in the criteria bar, it shows a list and explanation with all operators. This is only visible in Anywhere Client!

    (in this case German language)

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  • Louise Stub Hansen

    Hi Marlene

    Thanks for the tip. But I'm not sure I understand where to click to get the explanation?

    I don't see any yellow place to click on my Anwhere screen?

    But otherwise I can just try to refresh my german with the list you have sent above ;-D

    Thanks

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  • Marlene Knaup

    Hi Louise, if you want to get the drop down list with data, click here:

    If you want to get the operator list, click here: 

    (Notice the yellow highlighted mouse pointers)

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  • Louise Stub Hansen

    Thanks a lot.. Now in danish too :-) Perfect!

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