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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

Creating the Analysis sheet


The first sheet we will create is the Analysis sheet; as the current Dashboard sheet already contains a few of the metrics that we want on that sheet, first, let's change the name of the sheet from Dashboard to Analysis:

  1. Right-click anywhere on the sheet workspace and choose Properties.

  2. Navigate to the General tab and enter Analysis in the Title input field.

  3. Click on OK to close the Sheet Properties dialog.

While we're at it, rename the Main sheet to Associations. This sheet will help users to find associations on the data across many different fields. We might need to reposition the listboxes to fit our new layout.

Tip

Sheet handling

The design toolbar at the top of the screen contains some useful commands for dealing with worksheets.

The first icon on the left adds a new sheet. The second and third icons move the currently active sheet to the left or the right on the tab row. The last icon is used to open the properties dialog for the currently active sheet.

The same...