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Paging

Paging is a concept used in Qlik Sense to allow access to selected parts of data tables.

The number of table rows returned by hypercubes and list objects can in many case become very large, and it will often be impractical to retrieve all cells of the table in a single call to engine. A typical application of paging would be to populate a list box in a GUI. The GUI can know up front how many rows it will be able to display, and scrolling through a list box containing millions of rows could quickly suffer from performance problems unless a paging strategy is implemented.

The structure NxPage is used to define a page. The structure contains the properties Top, Left, Height, and Width, which together define a rectangle of cells within a table. For instance, NxPage structures are provided as arguments to the engine for methods that get data from hypercubes and list objects, and those methods return data in the form of NxDataPage structures. The NxDataPage structure contains a matrix representing the rows and columns of the data returned as well as metadata concerning the data that was returned.

The methods provided by the engine (for instance GenericObject.GetData) take lists of pages as arguments, which makes it possible to retrieve multiple pages in one call. A typical application of this is to get both the first and the last few rows of a table to make it possible to implement a smooth scrolling behavior in a component that allows scrolling to wrap around to the top.

Example: Get the second and third row from the table below

NxPage to use: { Top = 1, Left = 0, Height = 2, Width = 3 }

Result:

2014 February 101412
2014 March 90233

Example: Get Month and Sales (but not Year) from the first 5 rows of the table below.

NxPage to use: { Top = 0, Left = 1, Height = 5, Width = 2 }

Result:

January 101235
February 101412
March 90233
April 128923
May 154321

Example: Get the first 2 and last 2 rows of the table below.

NxPages to use: [{ Top = 0, Left =0, Height = 2, Width = 3 }, { Top = 14, Left =0, Height = 2, Width = 3 }]

Result:

2014 January 101235
2014 February 101412
2015 March 112455
2015 April 105567

Example: Source data

Dimensions Measures  
Year Month Sum(Sales)
2014 January 101235
2014 February 101412
2014 March 90233
2014 April 128923
2014 May 154321
2014 June 112552
2014 July 192134
2014 August 90213
2014 September 90576
2014 October 90227
2014 November 106311
2014 December 112394
2015 January 145621
2015 February 174566
2015 March 112455
2015 April 105567

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