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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

Implementing Section Access


Save QlikViewEssentials_Presentation.qvw as QlikViewEssentials_Presentation_Secured.qvw. It is important to back up your original file just in case you forget the user ID and password:

  1. Open script editor and go to File | Create Hidden Script. Create a password for your hidden script. I used user123.

  2. Type the following script and load the script:

    Section Access;
    Load * Inline [
    ACCESS, USERID, PASSWORD
    ADMIN, ADMIN, ADMIN
    USER  U1,  U1
    USER  U2,  U2
    USER  U3,  U3
    ];
    Section Application;

    This will create a Section Access script using a Section Access keyword. This script is loading an Inline table with three columns ACCESS, USERID, and PASSWORD. You can use a database table or Excel file to load this info. This script creates four users. One user with Admin-level access and three with User-level access.

  3. To test your script, close your application and open it again. It will ask for a user ID and password. Give the user ID and password as mentioned in the previous script...