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QlikView Essentials

By : Chandraish Sinha
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QlikView Essentials

By: Chandraish Sinha

Overview of this book

This guide demonstrates just how easy it is to get started with QlikView and create your own BI application. Featuring an introduction to its core features before exploring how to load data and model it, you’ll soon become more confident that you can take full advantage of QlikView’s capabilities.. You will also learn how to use QVD files with QlikView – and how they offer a simpler way of handling data. After digging deeper into data handling, as you learn how to use mapping tables and create a master calendar, you’ll then find out how to get the most from QlikView’s visualization features – vital if you are to use your data insights effectively. From accessible and user friendly dashboards to strategies and best practices for subjecting data to further analysis, you can be confident that you’ll be prepared to get the most out of your data with QlikView. With details on how to finally secure your application and deploy it for a successful integration in your organization, QlikView Essentials underlines exactly why QlikView is becoming more and more popular for businesses that understand the value of data.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
QlikView Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Sheet objects


Before embarking on our journey of designing visualizations, let's get familiar with different sheet objects. A QlikView document can have one or more sheets. These sheets will contain many objects. They are called objects or sheet objects because they reside on a sheet. In QlikView, every component has an ID. Sheets have a sheet ID and all other components have object IDs. Throughout the application, sheets and objects can be referred by these IDs. You can modify the properties of all the objects according to your requirements.

Right-click on an empty space on a sheet. Hover over New Sheet Object to get the list of sheet objects available to you. From the following screenshot, you can also see that you can copy and paste sheets. You can copy and paste sheet objects too.

The list of sheet objects available to you are:

  • List Box is used to filter the data.

  • Statistics Box is a compact way to display a numeric field with default functions such as sum, min, max, average.

  • Multi Box...