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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 last step


As the last step in your visualization application, follow these steps:

  1. Navigate to the About sheet and create a text object.

  2. On the General tab in the Text edit box, type Get Started. Change transparency to 100%.

  3. Under Actions, click Add and select Action Type as Layout. From the Action list, select Activate Sheet. In the Sheet ID box, specify the object ID of the first dashboard sheet, which is SH02.

  4. Under Font, select Calibri Bold and size 16.

  5. Under Layout, set Shadow intensity as Medium, and a Border width of 2 pt.

  6. Now clicking on this button will take you to the dashboard sheet.