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QlikView Scripting

By : Matt Floyd
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QlikView Scripting

By: Matt Floyd

Overview of this book

<p>QlikView is a powerful business intelligence and data discovery platform that allows people to quickly develop relevant data visualization applications for business users. The relative ease of QlikView development—including backend scripting—allows applications to be developed rapidly, and allows for more collaboration in application development for business users.</p> <p>A comprehensive guide that offers QlikView developers a rich discussion of scripting topics, from basic to advanced concepts, features, and functions in a compact mini-book format. This book allows developers to quickly gain confidence in understanding and expanding their QlikView scripting knowledge, and serves as a springboard for even more advanced topics in QlikView scripting.</p> <p>The book starts off by covering basic topics such as connecting to data sources, scripting, dealing with load statements, data transformations, and the concepts of the basic data model. It then dives into advanced concepts such as advanced scripting and data model optimization, the creation and use of QlikView datafiles, debugging, and essential functions and features. It also provides layout tips for developers. Qlikview Scripting is a great overview and reference guide for beginner to intermediate Qlikview developers.</p>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
QlikView Scripting
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Organizing tabs in scripts


Now that you've seen how to connect to a data source and load fields from database tables, you may be wondering about how to organize the tabs in the QlikView Script Editor window. It will help to put some thought into the script architecture up front: how will the tabs be organized—by function or by the application tab? How about by data source? How will you handle variables? mapping tables?

It's up to you, and it will probably be a hybrid approach. There are two main schools of thought in the QlikView community about tab organization: some say organize them by data source and some say organize them by QlikView application's (QVW) user interface sheet tabs (for instance, each sheet tab will have a corresponding script tab).

The best way to organize and add tabs is likely the division along data source lines, with no consideration of the final user interface, QVW. Remember that tab order is important and connections and selections must flow in a logical order (promote...