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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

QlikView server structure


A typical server environment in QMC has different tabs:

  • System: It gives you all the information regarding the QlikView Server and different services. Licenses within System give you information about the system licenses. Depending on the implementation, you may have just a Server license or a Server and publisher license.

  • Documents: It provides information on the Source Documents and User Documents folder. Source Documents gives you the list of documents you have stored in the Source Documents folder. User Documents gives the list of documents published to the users.

  • Status: It is used to check the status of the tasks executed. These tasks are for data load, that is, QVD generation and visualization generation. Using the Status tab you can monitor whether the tasks are successful. Status also contains a tab for services that provide information about the various services running on the server.

    Tip

    Tasks are created to execute the data load and to publish the qvw...