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QlikView Scripting

By : Matt Floyd
Book Image

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

Chapter 5. Basic Data Model and Table Viewer

This chapter describes associative data modeling and how the QlikView Table Viewer can assist you in creating a logical, efficient data model. The QlikView Table Viewer can assist you in documenting and analyzing QlikView applications (exporting data model images and structure), finding connection issues that create synthetic keys and tables, identifying opportunities to conform to the desired star schema model, and previewing data and statistics of data inside QlikView tables.