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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

Dimension limits


Dimension limits can be set for chart types, except for gauge charts and pivot tables. It controls the number of dimension values you can see in a given chart.

Using dimension limits, you can see the first, largest, and smallest dimensions:

  1. Create a new sheet. On the Dashboard sheet, right-click and select Copy Sheet. This will create a copy of the sheet. The look and feel of all the objects will be the same. You can change the title of the sheet and delete the objects you don't need.

  2. You can also create a new sheet from the Layout menu.

  3. Copy the sheet and change the title of the sheet to Top Sales. Right-click and remove all the charts and containers as you don't need them in this sheet. Keep the list boxes on the left.

  4. We will create a bar chart to get the top five sales by subcategory. Create a new bar chart. On the General tab, change the title to Top 5 Sales by SubCategory.

  5. Under Dimensions, select SubCategory Desc.

  6. Under Expressions, specify the following expression and label...