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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

Chapter 7. Securing Your Application

In the previous chapters you have loaded data and created a visualization application. Now it's time to secure your application so that only authorized users can view the application and data.

In this chapter, we shall:

  • Learn about the overview of security in QlikView

  • Learn about the different ways of securing an application

  • Learn about implementing security using Section Access

In QlikView, security can be implemented in two ways. One is protecting your dashboard from unauthorized access and the other is protecting your data within your application from unauthorized access.

Application-level security is implemented at the server level where access to the dashboard application is provided based on user roles and groups. This is accomplished using the QlikView management console.

Data-level security in QlikView is implemented using Section Access. Section Access is implemented in the Qvw script. This chapter deals with implementing data-level security using Section...