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QlikView Essentials

By : Chandraish Sinha
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QlikView Essentials

By: Chandraish Sinha

Overview of this book

This guide demonstrates just how easy it is to get started with QlikView and create your own BI application. Featuring an introduction to its core features before exploring how to load data and model it, you’ll soon become more confident that you can take full advantage of QlikView’s capabilities.. You will also learn how to use QVD files with QlikView – and how they offer a simpler way of handling data. After digging deeper into data handling, as you learn how to use mapping tables and create a master calendar, you’ll then find out how to get the most from QlikView’s visualization features – vital if you are to use your data insights effectively. From accessible and user friendly dashboards to strategies and best practices for subjecting data to further analysis, you can be confident that you’ll be prepared to get the most out of your data with QlikView. With details on how to finally secure your application and deploy it for a successful integration in your organization, QlikView Essentials underlines exactly why QlikView is becoming more and more popular for businesses that understand the value of data.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
QlikView Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Mapping load – Territory table


The objective here is to add TerritoryDesc to the Orders table and remove the Territory table from the data model. This will help in data model cleanup as one table will be reduced:

  1. As a best practice, all mapping loads should be in one tab. This tab should be the very first tab in the script after the Main tab.

  2. Open the QlikView file QlikViewEssentials.qvw that you have been using so far. Save as QlikViewEssentials_Chap3.qvw.

  3. Invoke the script editor by pressing Ctrl + E.

  4. Create a new tab and name it Mapping. Move this tab all the way to the left by using the Promote Tab icon as highlighted in the following screenshot. It should be your tab after the Main tab.

  5. Navigate to the Dimensions tab and cut the load script of SalesTerritory and paste it in the Mapping tab.

  6. Navigate to the Mapping tab, change the comment, and name the table as Territory_Map.

  7. Prefix the load statement with the Mapping keyword. This will treat the SalesTerritory table as a mapping table. This...