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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

Loading an Inline table


There is yet another way of adding a table to a data model, and it's one that is especially useful for small tables that do not necessarily reside in a database, for example, those that contain a custom description of an entity. With an Inline table, the data is entered directly into the Edit Script window. The process to input an Inline table is outlined here.

From the Edit Script window, go to the Insert menu and select Load Statement | Load Inline. The Inline Data Wizard will appear as shown in the following screenshot:

The window is similar to a spreadsheet, with rows and columns.

Note

To enter heading labels, double-click on the header cell.

We can start typing data into the cells, and after we are finished entering the content of the table, we can click on OK.

Note

Importing document data to the inline table

It is possible to enter, within the Inline wizard, a list of values contained in a field that is already stored in RAM. This is done via the Import Document Data...