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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 dual() function to set the sort order of dimensions


The following recipe shows you a way to overcome a problem with the sort order when creating a range dimension. You create a calculated dimension to the group set of values as custom ranges and describe it as with labels such as "above 10", "< 30", "< 60", and "up to 100". If you sort it alphabetically, then it will not show in the same order. We can assign a numeric value to each label using the dual() function. Using this approach, you can simply set the sort order of the dimension as numerical and it will sort correctly.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we will generate sales data in the script, as defined in the following script. Load the following script into the Data load editor:

load round(rand()*100) as Value 
AutoGenerate(100);  

How to do it...

  1. Go to the App overview window and open a new sheet.
  2. Enter the Edit mode by clicking on
    .
  3. Create a Table chart.
  4. Add a new dimension, and click on the fx button to create it as an expression...