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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)

Text objects

In this section, we will look at text objects, why we use them, how you can create a text object, and then, finally, text object properties.

Text objects are very helpful when creating a banner – for example, if you want to create a banner where you want to mention your dashboard name, the month, and other information, you can use a text object there. Or, let's say if you want to add a logo, you can add an image to the text object and add a logo to your dashboard so that it gives the look and feel of a standard company dashboard. Apart from this, you will encounter other scenarios where you can use the text object once you become familiar with it.

So, now, let's go ahead and see how we can create a text object. To create a text object, as always, we can right-click and select the New Sheet Object option. Let's give it a name, for example, Airlines...