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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

Sheet-level security


At the sheet level, we can also determine what actions our users are allowed to make. The sheet-level privileges can be opened by selecting Settings | Sheet Properties in the menu and selecting the Security tab. This tab is shown in the following screenshot:

The following table lists and describes the various user privileges that can be set at the sheet level:

User privilege

Description

Add Sheet Objects

Allows users to add new sheet objects.

Remove Sheet Objects

Allows users to remove any of the sheet objects, not just the ones that they created.

Move/Size Sheet Objects

Allows users to move and size sheet objects. On sheets where we do not want the users to move or size any of the objects, this option is a lot more convenient than deselecting Allow Move/Size on each individual sheet object.

Copy/Clone Sheet Objects

Allows users to create a copy of existing sheet objects.

Access Sheet Object Properties

Allows users to access the Sheet Properties...