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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

Loading EmployeeSalesTarget.xlsx


We will load EmployeeSalesTarget.xlsx using Crosstable because it is in the Crosstable format:

  1. Open QlikViewEssentials_Chap3.qvw and save it as QlikViewEssentials_Chap4_Crosstable.qvw.

  2. Go to the script editor and create a new tab and call it Crosstable.

  3. Click on Table Files and browse to EmployeeSalesTarget.xlsx. Check all the default settings and click on Next.

  4. Click Next.

  5. Under File Wizard: Options, click on Crosstable under Prefixes.

  6. Select the Qualifier Fields, Attribute Field, and Data Field. Qualifier fields are columns on the left. You can specify any number of qualifiers. Attribute and data fields can have any names. The number of qualifier fields are the fields that do not get transformed by Crosstable syntax. Attribute fields are the fields that get transformed. In this case it is Year. Attribute Field will transform Year under one column. Data Field will contain the data of the attribute field.

  7. Give the name of the table as SalesTarget. The load script...