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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

Summary


We have come to the end of this chapter on scripting. We have learned how to navigate the script editor. We have seen the most important script statements, and have applied them to our Airline Operations project. We also picked up a few tips and pointers for working with different data types in QlikView, and for debugging, standardizing, and organizing our scripts. We ended this chapter by looking at script re-using, which makes our scripts easier to maintain.

In short, we learned about the Script Editor window, what the most important script statements are and how to use them, operators and functions for dealing with various data types, and what options exist to debug a script.

We also learned how to organize and standardize our script and how to re-use your script within and between QlikView documents.

Now that we have learned the basics of QlikView scripting, in the next chapter we will apply this new knowledge while learning about data modeling best practices.