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Hands-On Dashboard Development with QlikView

By : Abhishek Agarwal
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Hands-On Dashboard Development with QlikView

By: Abhishek Agarwal

Overview of this book

QlikView is one of the market leaders when it comes to building effective Business Intelligence solutions. This book will show how you can leverage its power to build your own dashboards to tell your own data story. The book starts with showing you how to connect your data to QlikView and create your own QlikView application. You will learn how to add data from multiple sources, create a data model by joining data, and then review it on the front end. You will work with QlikView components such as charts, list boxes, input boxes, and text objects to create stunning visualizations that help give actionable business insights. You will also learn how to perform analysis on your data in QlikView and master the various types of security measures to be taken in QlikView. By the end of this book, you will have all the essential knowledge required for insightful data storytelling and creating useful BI dashboards using QlikView.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

Buttons

In this section, we will look at how we can add buttons, and then add actions to those buttons.

So, let's open our QlikView application, which we have been using in this chapter so far. To create a button, you need to right-click in the dashboard, go to New Sheet Object, and then select the Button option. This gives us the following window:

In this window, you can name the button, add text to it, and style it to make it as user-friendly as possible. Let's create a Clear button for our users, so that they can easily clear any selections that we make. Once you click on OK, you will see the Clear button on the dashboard. However, you will notice that it is disabled. That is because we haven't added any action to the button yet. To assign an action to the button, we will right-click, go to the Properties, and open the Actions tab, which looks similar to the...