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Qlikview Unlocked

By : Roger Stone, Andrew Dove
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Qlikview Unlocked

By: Roger Stone, Andrew Dove

Overview of this book

QlikView Unlocked will provide you with new insights to get the very best from QlikView. This book will help you to develop skills to work with data efficiently. We will cover all the secrets of unleashing the full power of QlikView, which will enable you to make better use of the tool and create better results for future projects. In the course of this book, we will walk you through techniques and best practices that will enable you to be more productive. You will gain quick insights into the tool with the help of short steps called ”keys,” which will help you discover new features of QlikView. Moving on you will learn new techniques for data visualization, scripting, data modeling, and more. This book will then cover best practices to help you establish an efficient system with improved performance. We will also teach you some tricks that will help you speed up development processes, monitor data with dashboards, and so on. By the end of this book, you will have gained beneficial tips, tricks, and techniques to enhance the overall experience of working with QlikView.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
9
A. Hidden Image List
10
Index

What this book covers

Chapter 1, Behind Every Successful Project Is a Plan, covers the basics of a QlikView environment, how to organize a QlikView project, and how to ensure that the development has clear deliverables.

Chapter 2, Building the Correct Environment, sets standards for the project or site as a whole, understanding that getting the environment right is a vital foundation for everything else.

Chapter 3, Are you Sitting Comfortably? Be More Productive, discusses some useful settings for the desktop workbench that save lots of time and open up features, making development more productive.

Chapter 4, It's All About Understanding the Data, looks at data and how it relates to the task at hand as well as at prototyping, how to correctly structure the data environment for performance and ease of use, and how to tackle common data problems.

Chapter 5, The Right Data Model Pays Dividends, identifies and fixes issues in the data model that could cause poor performance or difficulties in presenting data to the user.

Chapter 6, Make It Easy on Yourself–Some QlikView Tips and Tricks, provides you with some great time-saving tips.

Chapter 7, Improving Chart Performance and Usability, helps you unlock the power of charting by understanding little-known features and nonstandard ways of presenting data.

Chapter 8, To Deployment and Beyond, talks about how to implement security, deploy and protect the source code, and how to investigate and solve problems on QlikView Server.

Appendix, Hidden Image List, provides over 450 built-in images that can be used in any QlikView document.