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QlikView for Developers

By : Miguel Angel Garcia, Barry Harmsen
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QlikView for Developers

By: Miguel Angel Garcia, Barry Harmsen

Overview of this book

QlikView is one of the most flexible and powerful Business Intelligence platforms around. If you want to build data into your organization, build it around QlikView. Don't get caught in the gap between data and knowledge – find out how QlikView can help you unlock insights and data potential with ease. Whether you're new to QlikView or want to get up to speed with the features and functionality of QlikView, this book starts at a basic level and delves more deeply to demonstrate how to make QlikView work for you, and make it meet the needs of your organization. Using a real-world use-case to highlight the extensive impact of effective business analytics, this book might well be your silver bullet for success. A superb hands-on guide to get you started by exploring the fundamentals of QlikView before learning how to successfully implement it, technically and strategically. You'll learn valuable tips, tricks, and insightful information on loading different types of data into QlikView, and how to model it effectively. You will also learn how to write useful scripts for QlikView to handle potentially complex data transformations in a way that is simple and elegant. From ensuring consistency and clarity in your data models, to techniques for managing expressions using variables, this book makes sure that your QlikView projects are organized in a way that's most productive for you and key stakeholders.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
QlikView for Developers
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Summary


We have seen four different scenarios in which the source table is not suitable for a QlikView data model, and we have shown the tools QlikView provides to deal with those formats. We have learned how to use the Transformation Wizard to remove garbage from input tables, fill missing cells, and unwrap table files.

We also learned what a Crosstable is, why it's not fit for the QlikView data model, and how to transform it into a traditional table. We saw how to deal with hierarchical tables and identify parent and child nodes.

Finally, we learned what a generic table is and how to take advantage of QlikView's ability to transform its structure.

In Chapter 13, Advanced Data Transformation, we will look at more advanced techniques for transforming source data for use in different data model designs.