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QlikView for Developers

By : Miguel Angel Garcia, Barry Harmsen
Book Image

QlikView for Developers

By: Miguel Angel Garcia, Barry Harmsen

Overview of this book

QlikView is one of the most flexible and powerful Business Intelligence platforms around. If you want to build data into your organization, build it around QlikView. Don't get caught in the gap between data and knowledge – find out how QlikView can help you unlock insights and data potential with ease. Whether you're new to QlikView or want to get up to speed with the features and functionality of QlikView, this book starts at a basic level and delves more deeply to demonstrate how to make QlikView work for you, and make it meet the needs of your organization. Using a real-world use-case to highlight the extensive impact of effective business analytics, this book might well be your silver bullet for success. A superb hands-on guide to get you started by exploring the fundamentals of QlikView before learning how to successfully implement it, technically and strategically. You'll learn valuable tips, tricks, and insightful information on loading different types of data into QlikView, and how to model it effectively. You will also learn how to write useful scripts for QlikView to handle potentially complex data transformations in a way that is simple and elegant. From ensuring consistency and clarity in your data models, to techniques for managing expressions using variables, this book makes sure that your QlikView projects are organized in a way that's most productive for you and key stakeholders.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
QlikView for Developers
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Additional interactivity


Besides properly styling your QlikView documents, how your document responds to user interaction is also critical to ensuring a pleasant user experience. Fortunately, most of the interaction is already built into the list boxes, charts, and so on, but there are a few options that can help you make your document even more polished.

We will first look how we can make QlikView respond to certain events by using triggers and actions. We'll then see how we can create an advanced search expression that lets us search for data in a flexible manner. We will see how we can use these advanced search expressions to send out alerts when predefined conditions are met. We will end this section by looking at how to conditionally calculate or show an object.

Triggers

By using triggers, QlikView lets us respond to certain events (for example, when a sheet is selected) with an action. Triggers can be defined at various levels.

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