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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

Working with listboxes


Currently, our QlikView document contains the following listboxes in the Dashboard sheet:

  • Carrier's Operating Region

  • Carrier Group

  • Flight Type

  • Aircraft Group

  • Year

  • Quarter

  • Month

Let's see how we can add listboxes and change their properties.

Adding listboxes

Lets add another listbox representing the Carrier Name field by right-clicking on the worksheet and selecting Properties… (or by pressing Ctrl + Alt + S, which is the shortcut for the Settings | Sheet Properties menu command). Next, open the Fields tab, locate the Carrier Name field under the Available Fields list, and click on Add > to add it as a new listbox.

Tip

Many routes lead to Rome

To add an object to a worksheet, there are three basic methods: using the menu, using the toolbar, or using the pop-up menu:

Menu: By selecting Layout | New Sheet Object

Toolbar: By using the design toolbar

Pop-up: By right-clicking on a blank space within the worksheet and choosing the desired object from the New Sheet...