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QlikView 11 for Developers

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QlikView 11 for Developers

Overview of this book

Business Intelligence technologies are a must-have in every business to make informed decisions and keep up-to speed with the ever-evolving markets. QlikView's disruptive technology makes it a key player and leader in the industry; with its flexibility and powerful analytics environment, building QlikView apps can be mastered by both, business users as well as developers. This book will help you learn QlikView Development from a basic to a practitioner level using a step-by-step approach in a practical environment, and apply proven best practices on each topic. Throughout the book, we will build a QlikView app based on real data about Airline Operations that will help "HighCloud Airlines" make informed business decisions and analysis-guided strategies. HighCloud Airlines executives are evaluating if entering the US market is a good strategy and, if so, which line of business should they focus their investments on; they need QlikView to make the best decision. The application will be evolving chapter by chapter, along with your skills, going from a simple proof of concept to creating a Data Model, adding a custom style, building a Dashboard and handling and manipulating the source data via script. We will meet the "HighCloud Airlines" requirement by using many different data visualization objects and time-saving techniques. The whole application uses real data taken from the Bureau of Transportations statistics of the US and encompasses the operations of Airlines both domestic and international. With three years worth of data, you will help HighCloud Airlines discover where people travel the most, which are the Carriers with the most market share, what is the average load factor per airline, which aircraft is the most used to perform flights, which are the busiest airports, and a whole universe of new insights.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
QlikView 11 for Developers
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Loading an Inline table


There is yet another way of adding a table to a data model, and it's one that is especially useful for small tables that do not necessarily reside in a database. For example, those that contain a custom description of an entity. With an Inline table, the data is entered directly into the Edit Script window. The process to input an Inline table is outlined here.

From the Edit Script window, go to the Insert menu and select Load Statement | Load Inline. The Inline Data Wizard will appear as shown in the screenshot below:

The window is similar to a spreadsheet, with rows and columns.

Note

To enter heading labels, double-click on the header cell.

We can start typing data into the cells, and after we are finished entering the content of the table, we can click on OK.

Tip

Importing document data to the Inline table

It is possible to enter, within the Inline wizard, a list of values contained in a field that is already stored in RAM. This is done via the Import Document Data...