While listboxes are a very convenient way to quickly make selections, the downside is that they can also take up a lot of space. This is where the multi box offers an alternative. The multi box displays each field on a single line, alongside a drop-down that expands to allow selections to be made.
Let's add a multi box that contains some extra information on flights, by following these steps:
Flight Information
.The resulting multi box should look like the one shown in the following screenshot. Notice how the list of values is expandable when clicking on each field. Also note that the sort order for the Distance Interval is no longer alphabetical, but uses the order in which the values were loaded into QlikView:
During this exercise, you may have noticed that, unlike the listbox, the Sort tab for the multi box contains multiple fields and that we can set different sort orders for each field. This is also the case for the alignment options on the Presentation tab and the number format options on the Number tab. This is not only true for multi boxes, but for any object that contains multiple dimensions and/or expressions, such as table boxes and charts.