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QlikView for Developers Cookbook

By : Stephen Redmond
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QlikView for Developers Cookbook

By: Stephen Redmond

Overview of this book

QlikView has been around since 1993, but has only really taken off in recent years as a leader in the in-memory BI space and, more recently, in the data discovery area. QlikView features the ability to consolidate relevant data from multiple sources into a single application, as well as an associative data model to allow you to explore the data to a way your brain works, state-of-the-art visualizations, dashboard, analysis and reports, and mobile data access. QlikView for Developers Cookbook builds on your initial training and experiences with QlikView to help you become a better developer. This book features plenty of hands-on examples of many challenging functions. Assuming a basic understanding of QlikView development, this book provides a range of step-by-step exercises to teach you different subjects to help build your QlikView developer expertise. From advanced charting and layout to set analysis; from advanced aggregations through to scripting, performance, and security, this book will cover all the areas that you need to know about. The recipes in this book will give you a lot of the information that you need to become an excellent QlikView developer.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
QlikView for Developers Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Section Access gotchas


When setting up Section Access, there are a few common things that can lead to failure. A failure in Section Access can be more upsetting when you find that you can no longer open your QlikView document.

In this recipe, we will create a few of these errors and show how to resolve them.

Getting ready

Load the following script:

//Section Access;
Access:
LOAD * INLINE [
    ACCESS, USERID, PASSWORD, Link
    ADMIN, admin, admin, *
    USER, user1, user1, US
    USER, user2, user2, UK
    USER, user3, user3, Fr
];

Section Application;

Sales:
Load * Inline [
	Link, Country, Sales
	US, USA, 1000
	UK, United Kingdom, 800
	Fr, France, 750
	De, Germany, 940
];

Save this document as Security1.qvw and reload.

How to do it…

  1. Add the USERID and Country fields to the layout:

  2. Confirm that each user is associated with the values that are expected (the admin user will not be associated with any country – this is expected).

  3. Save the document as Security2.qvw. Edit the script and uncomment the...