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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

Creating a simple HTML table


We can, of course, use extension objects to pass data through to third-party controls, for example, Flash or Silverlight. But we can also fully control the way we display the data using HTML and JavaScript, especially if we employ one of the many visualization libraries available, such as D3.js.

In this example, we are going to create a simple HTML table based on the data in QlikView.

Getting ready

Load the following script:

Sales:
LOAD * INLINE [
    Country, Sales
    USA, 1000
    Mexico, 600
    Canada, 700
    UK, 900
    Germany, 800
];

How to do it…

These steps show you how to create a simple HTML table extension:

  1. Open your user profile folder (usually C:\Users\your.username) and browse down to AppData\Local\QlikTech\QlikView\Extensions\Objects

    You may need to create the Extensions\Objects folder if no extensions have previously been installed.

  2. Create a new subfolder in the Objects folder and call it QlikViewCookbook. Create a subfolder in here and call it HTMLTable...