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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

The story of two tables


In QlikView, tables are also a part of charts. There are two types of tables, straight table and pivot table.

Straight and pivot tables are used to display data in tabular format. In a pivot table, data is grouped by dimensions. Pivot tables show partial sums or sub-totals. Straight tables cannot show sub-totals. Straight tables have the dimension limits property. Pivot tables do not have dimension limits. Straight tables have the option for interactive sort.

Creating a straight table

To create a straight table, perform the following steps:

  1. Right-click on any empty space on the sheet and choose New Sheet Object and select Chart. You can either create a straight table on the same Dashboard sheet or create a new sheet by navigating to the Layout menu and select Add Sheet.

  2. On the General tab, specify the Windows Title as Orders by ProductLine. From the Chart Type, select Straight Table on the bottom right. Click on Next.

  3. Set ProductLineDesc as Dimension and click on Next to...