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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

Creating a text object


Text objects are a good way of displaying labels and expressions. Text objects can be made interactive by specifying Actions in the properties. Since we are working on a Dashboard sheet, we will create text objects to display summarized information. We will create text objects for number of Orders, number of Customers, and Total Sales:

  1. Use QlikViewEssentials_Presentation.qvw.

  2. Right-click on the empty space on the Dashboard sheet. Select New Sheet Object and then the text object.

  3. On the General tab, in the Text edit box, type the following expression for # of Orders. Remember to put = in front of the expression. If you are displaying labels then you don't need =:

    ='# Orders ' & chr(10) & Num(count(distinct OrderID),'#,##0')
    Distinct is used to avoid duplicate OrderID's in the count

    Tip

    Notice chr(10) will give a line break and a calculation will appear after # Orders label. You have to format the number in the textbox using the Num function.

  4. On the General tab, under...