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QlikView for Developers

By : Miguel Angel Garcia, Barry Harmsen
Book Image

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

The Table Viewer window


We already had a small peek at the Table Viewer window in previous chapters. As this feature is very useful when analyzing our data models, let's take a more in-depth look. To illustrate, consider the data model seen in the following Table Viewer window:

The Table Viewer window can be opened by selecting File | Table Viewer from the menu bar, or by pressing Ctrl + T.

The table viewer shows the tables (boxes) and their associations (connectors). When more than two tables are associated via the same key, it will be indicated with a small blue dot in the connector line.

The layout of the tables and connection points can be changed by clicking and dragging the header and connection point, respectively. Tables can also be resized when hovering over and dragging their edges. Of course, it is not mandatory to create a clean layout for your data model, but it is recommended as it makes a diagram easier to understand.

A lot of information about our data model can be learned from...