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Creating Stunning Dashboards with QlikView

By : Julian Villafuerte
Book Image

Creating Stunning Dashboards with QlikView

By: Julian Villafuerte

Overview of this book

QlikView is one of the most powerful analytical tools in the market. Based on an in-memory associative model, it lets users freely navigate through the data, spot trends and make better decisions. This platform is capable of integrating a wide range of data sources like ERP systems, data warehouses or spreadsheets into a single application in order display dashboards with state-of-the-art visualizations. Creating Stunning Dashboards with QlikView is an easy to follow handbook that guides you through the process of creating an effective and engaging dashboard that delivers tangible value to the business. It starts with the identification of the business needs and the definition of the main KPIs, and takes you all the way to the application rollout. Throughout the book, you will learn how to apply some of the best practices in the field of data visualization, create a robust navigation schema, chose the best chart types for each scenario and many other things that will help you create effective dashboards that uncover all the stories behind the data.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Creating Stunning Dashboards with QlikView
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
4
It's Not Only about Charts
Index

Opening and closing scripts


Chances are that most of your dashboards share some features such as variables, colors, and even some visual cues. To ensure that all the apps in the QlikView environment are consistent, and to save some valuable time, you can create standard text files to use them as opening and closing scripts. These files can collect shared functionality, such as:

  • Environmental and format variables

  • Connection strings

  • Frequently used variables such as vToday or vCurrentYear

  • Standard color variables (RGB codes)

  • Subroutines

  • Section access

  • Commonly used statements such as HidePrefix or NullAsValue

You can easily import these files in all your apps by going to Insert | Include Statement.