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QlikView for Developers

By : Miguel Angel Garcia, Barry Harmsen
Book Image

QlikView for Developers

By: Miguel Angel Garcia, Barry Harmsen

Overview of this book

QlikView is one of the most flexible and powerful Business Intelligence platforms around. If you want to build data into your organization, build it around QlikView. Don't get caught in the gap between data and knowledge – find out how QlikView can help you unlock insights and data potential with ease. Whether you're new to QlikView or want to get up to speed with the features and functionality of QlikView, this book starts at a basic level and delves more deeply to demonstrate how to make QlikView work for you, and make it meet the needs of your organization. Using a real-world use-case to highlight the extensive impact of effective business analytics, this book might well be your silver bullet for success. A superb hands-on guide to get you started by exploring the fundamentals of QlikView before learning how to successfully implement it, technically and strategically. You'll learn valuable tips, tricks, and insightful information on loading different types of data into QlikView, and how to model it effectively. You will also learn how to write useful scripts for QlikView to handle potentially complex data transformations in a way that is simple and elegant. From ensuring consistency and clarity in your data models, to techniques for managing expressions using variables, this book makes sure that your QlikView projects are organized in a way that's most productive for you and key stakeholders.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
QlikView for Developers
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Document-level security


User privileges can be set on two levels within QlikView, at the document level and at the level of individual sheets. We can open the document-level user privileges by pressing Ctrl + Alt + D to open the Document Properties dialog and selecting the Security tab. This tab is shown in the following screenshot:

The following table lists and describes the document-level security settings:

User privilege

Description

Reduce Data

Allows users to reduce data using File | Reduce Data.

Add Sheets

Allows users to add new sheets by going to Layout | Add Sheet.

Edit Script

Allows users to edit the script by going to File | Edit Script. It is advisable to not enable this setting.

Reload

Allows a full reload of the document by going to File | Reload. As this will always return a full data set, ignoring any section access, it is not advisable to enable this setting.

Partial Reload

Allows users to perform a partial reload by going to File | Partial Reload...