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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

The Sheet Properties dialog


Just as there are document-level properties, we can also set properties at the sheet- and object-level. Let's have a quick look at the Sheet Properties dialog.

Open this window by right-clicking on an empty space in the Dashboard worksheet and selecting Properties….

The following screenshot shows the Sheet Properties dialog:

As its name implies, the Sheet Properties dialog can be used to set various properties of a worksheet. Let's quickly review the available options.

On the General tab, the following properties are of interest:

  • Title: This property can be used to set the title that appears in the tab row. In addition to static text, this can also be a calculated value.

  • Show Sheet: This property can be used to conditionally hide/show the sheet. For example, we can use an expression like GetSelectedCount([Carrier Name]) = 1 to only show the sheet when a single carrier is selected.

  • Sheet ID: This property is the internal ID of the sheet. This ID can be used to...