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QlikView: Advanced Data Visualization

By : Miguel Angel Garcia, Barry Harmsen, Stephen Redmond, Karl Pover
Book Image

QlikView: Advanced Data Visualization

By: Miguel Angel Garcia, Barry Harmsen, Stephen Redmond, Karl Pover

Overview of this book

QlikView is one of the most flexible and powerful business intelligence platforms around, and if you want to transform data into insights, it is one of the best options you have at hand. Use this Learning Path, to explore the many features of QlikView to realize the potential of your data and present it as impactful and engaging visualizations. Each chapter in this Learning Path starts with an understanding of a business requirement and its associated data model and then helps you create insightful analysis and data visualizations around it. You will look at problems that you might encounter while visualizing complex data insights using QlikView, and learn how to troubleshoot these and other not-so-common errors. This Learning Path contains real-world examples from a variety of business domains, such as sales, finance, marketing, and human resources. With all the knowledge that you gain from this Learning Path, you will have all the experience you need to implement your next QlikView project like a pro. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • QlikView for Developers by Miguel Ángel García, Barry Harmsen • Mastering QlikView by Stephen Redmond • Mastering QlikView Data Visualization by Karl Pover
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
QlikView: Advanced Data Visualization
Contributors
Preface
Index

Hidden script


When QlikView script is being executed, the results of the actions are written to the Script Execution Progress window (and, if enabled, the log file). While this is a very useful feature to see what happened during reload, sometimes you do not want certain things (for example, login credentials) to be visible to everyone. In fact, sometimes you do not even want all developers to have access to the entire script. This is where the hidden script comes into play.

The hidden script is a password protected part of the script. It is always the left-most tab (and cannot be moved), so it is executed before the regular script is reloaded. Anything that is executed within the hidden script is not written to the log.

Note

Logging for the hidden script can be turned on by checking the Show Progress for Hidden Script checkbox on the Security tab of the Document Properties. Note that this will allow others to use the debugger to step through the hidden code. Since this defeats a main point...