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Learning Qlik Sense??: The Official Guide Second Edition - Second Edition

By : Christopher Ilacqua, QlikTech International AB, Henric Cronström, James Richardson
Book Image

Learning Qlik Sense??: The Official Guide Second Edition - Second Edition

By: Christopher Ilacqua, QlikTech International AB, Henric Cronström, James Richardson

Overview of this book

The intuitive and powerful Qlik Sense visual analytics software allows anyone to engage in data discovery, to explore your data, and find meaningful insights to empower your business. Qlik Sense lets you easily create personalized reports and visualizations and reveal essential connections to show new opportunities from every angle. Written by members of the Qlik Sense team, this book is the official guide from Qlik to understanding and using their powerful new product with fully updated coverage to the latest features of the most modern edition of Qlik Sense. Benefit from the vision behind the development of Qlik Sense and get to grips with how Qlik Sense can empower you as a data discovery consumer. Learn how to create your own applications for Qlik Sense to customize it to meet your personal needs for business intelligence, and how to oversee and administer the Qlik Sense data architecture. Finally, explore utilizing Qlik Sense to uncover essential data, with practical examples on finding and visualizing intelligence for sales figures, human resources information, travel expense tracking, and demographic data discovery.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Learning Qlik Sense® The Official Guide Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.packtpub.com
Preface
Index

The data model viewer


The script defines the data model, but if you want to view it graphically, you should use data model viewer. This is opened from the toolbar menu, as shown in the following screenshot:

Clicking on the icon to the right in the menu will open Data model viewer in a new tab. Once this is open, you can visually see what the data model looks like. If you have more than one table, they should be linked by the key fields and should look something similar to the following screenshot:

The Data model viewer is an excellent tool to get an overview of the data model. It is also a very good debugging tool in the application development process.

Check whether the data model looks the way you want it to and make sure that you have no circular references. Circular references will be marked with red links and synthetic keys will be named $Syn:

Using preview mode

The Data model viewer option has a useful additional feature, preview mode. This mode allows you to preview both the data and...