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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

Alternate States


Alternate States will help Adventure Works users to compare freight of different products. This was not possible until now as whenever you'd select Product from the list box, it'd change the data in all the charts. Alternate States provides a way to do such comparisons.

In your dashboard, you can detach any chart. Right click and choose Detach. Once detached, the chart will not respond to the user's selections.

Alternate States is an extension of this concept where the developer can create multiple states and apply these states to specific objects. All objects in a given state will respond to user selections made in that state. Alternate States are not available in the load script. They are a feature of a user interface.

Two states are always available in the document: the default state and the inherited state. The QlikView document is always in the default state and it is represented by $. Objects can inherit states from higher-level objects. Sheet objects inherit states from...