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Hands-On Dashboard Development with QlikView

By : Abhishek Agarwal
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Hands-On Dashboard Development with QlikView

By: Abhishek Agarwal

Overview of this book

QlikView is one of the market leaders when it comes to building effective Business Intelligence solutions. This book will show how you can leverage its power to build your own dashboards to tell your own data story. The book starts with showing you how to connect your data to QlikView and create your own QlikView application. You will learn how to add data from multiple sources, create a data model by joining data, and then review it on the front end. You will work with QlikView components such as charts, list boxes, input boxes, and text objects to create stunning visualizations that help give actionable business insights. You will also learn how to perform analysis on your data in QlikView and master the various types of security measures to be taken in QlikView. By the end of this book, you will have all the essential knowledge required for insightful data storytelling and creating useful BI dashboards using QlikView.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

Adding filters to the app

In this section, we will look at how to add filters in the app, and the different ways to add the filters.

So, let's go to the QlikView application, and here we are in the dashboard tab:

The first way to add filters is by right-clicking on the screen and clicking the Select Fields option from the drop-down menu, which shows us the following window:

Another way of doing it is that you can right-click on the window, go to the New Sheet Object menu, and click on the List Box... option. This gives us the following window:

Here, you have the option of selecting the field that you want to add. So, with the help of these different options, you can add the list box on your screen, and use it as a filter to refresh your dashboard for your application. So, we have now covered how to add filters to your app.

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