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Qlik Sense Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Pablo Labbe, Philip Hand, Neeraj Kharpate
Book Image

Qlik Sense Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Pablo Labbe, Philip Hand, Neeraj Kharpate

Overview of this book

Qlik Sense allows you to explore simple and complex data to reveal hidden insight and data relationships that help you make quality decisions for overall productivity. An expert Qlik Sense user can use its features for business intelligence in an enterprise environment effectively. Qlik Sense Cookbook is an excellent guide for all aspiring Qlik Sense developers and will empower you to create featured desktop applications to obtain daily insights at work. This book takes you through the basics and advanced functions of Qlik Sense February 2018 release. You’ll start with a quick refresher on obtaining data from data files and databases, and move on to some more refined features including visualization, and scripting, as well as managing apps and user interfaces. You will then understand how to work with advanced functions like set analysis and set expressions. As you make your way through this book, you will uncover newly added features in Qlik Sense such as new visualizations, label expressions and colors for dimension and measures. By the end of this book, you will have explored various visualization extensions to create your own interactive dashboard with the required tips and tricks. This will help you overcome challenging situations while developing your applications in Qlik Sense.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Using the RangeSum() function to plot cumulative figures in trendline charts


The charts in Qlik Sense don't provide the user with the inbuilt functionality to calculate the cumulative totals, as is the case with QlikView. In order to achieve the cumulative totals in a trendline chart, we make use of the RangeSum() function.

Getting ready

Load the following script that gives information on monthly sales figures for two years:

Sales: 
LOAD  
Month(Date#(Month,'MMM')) as Month, 
Year, 
Sales 
INLINE [ 
Month,Year,Sales 
Jan,2014,1000 
Feb,2014,1520 
Mar,2014,1600 
Apr,2014,3000 
May,2014,2500 
Jun,2014,4500 
Jul,2014,6000 
Aug,2014,6500 
Sep,2014,7800 
Oct,2014,6800 
Nov,2014,3000 
Dec,2014,2500 
Jan,2015,750 
Feb,2015,1200 
Mar,2015,800 
Apr,2015,600 
May,2015,2100 
Jun,2015,3500 
Jul,2015,4700 
]; 

How to do it…

  1. Click on App overview under the Navigation dropdown and create a new sheet.
  2. Drag across the Line chart object from the Assets panel on the sheet, and name it Cumulative Sales.
  3. Add Year and...