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Mastering QlikView

By : Stephen Redmond
Book Image

Mastering QlikView

By: Stephen Redmond

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Mastering QlikView
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Examining advanced Table File Wizard options


The Table Files Wizard is used by many to load a file and generate the load script for it. However, there is a not-so-secret secret button with the word Next written on it that is often ignored:

There are some great things in here that are worth looking at.

Enabling a transformation step

When we first hit that Next button on the wizard, we are presented with the interesting option, Enable Transformation Step:

If we click on this button, it brings us to a new dialog with several tabs:

Garbage

The Garbage tab allows us to clean out records that are not useful to us. In the preceding screenshot, there are a couple of rows that we can select and click on the Delete Marked button to remove. We can also click on the Conditional Delete… button and set up a rule to delete particular rows, for example, if they begin with the word Total:

Fill

The Fill tab allows us to fill in missing values, or overwrite other values, based on a condition. We can fill data from...