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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

Standardizing and organizing script


Have you ever experienced the following situation? A challenging problem presents itself. After many hours of thinking, developing, thinking some more, and developing some more, you have crafted a solution. "This is brilliant work!" you say to yourself, "It completely solves the problem, and in a very elegant way too."

Fast-forward a few months. A new business question presents itself and a small change to your original solution is required. You look at your original work, and after some poking around decide that you can make neither head nor tail of it."This is horrible work!" you say to yourself, "What was I thinking at the time?".

Did your script really go from brilliant to rubbish over the course of 6 months? Most likely not. You have just lost familiarity with the script. Fortunately, there are ways to ensure that you (and others) are able to quickly get up to speed when modifying existing QlikView script. The secrets are organizing your scripts and...