DON'T EVER DO THIS!

I know, two days in a row. In some countries, it would be considered spam. Communist countries.

But this is important. You should never do this. Ever. Unless you have express written approval from me. It does, however spotlight a creative way to use Qlikview. Consider this your express written approval to test this, but not to publish.

Enter:

=if(Odd(Second(Now(1))),Cyan(),Yellow())

Into any object’s background color. It will make it blink from cyan to yellow and back every second. Variations of the commands can be used for things like scrolling text, changing comments in a text box, etc. . A possibly positive use might be to blink the caption on an important warning, such as a known data problem.

Remember, with great power comes great responsibility. The fancy-pants among you might want to attribute this to Voltaire, be we all know it’s about Spiderman.

Hat tip to QlikView Maven for this trick.