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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

QlikView script debugger


The QlikView debugger is a tool used to help you identify the problems in the script that cause errors or other issues. The debugger allows close monitoring of the script and also allows you to view the script actions and variable settings. The debugger window, as shown in the following screenshot, is accessed by clicking on the Debug button in the main toolbar in Script Editor.

The following illustration is a screenshot of the QlikView Debugger dialog (debugger):

The features of the QlikView debugger include:

  • Clear: In the Breakpoints section, this button clears all the established breakpoints. You can set a breakpoint (a pause in the script created by clicking a line number). Breakpoints are represented in the debugger main window by a red circle near the code line numbers. You can set as many breakpoints as you want in the code. Not all lines can support a breakpoint, so it may sometimes be helpful to set breakpoints on multiple lines near where the breakpoint...