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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

The Script Editor


As we saw in Chapter 3, Seeing is Believing, Chapter 4, Data Sources, and Chapter 5, Data Modeling, the script editor is where a lot of the magic happens. In this chapter, we will be taking an in-depth look at the various functions that are available in this environment.

We will again be expanding the Airline Operations.qvw document that we worked on in the previous chapters. When you've opened the document, let's open the script editor by selecting File | Edit Script from the menu or by pressing Ctrl + E.

You will notice that the script editor consists of the following areas:

  • A menu bar

  • A toolbar

  • A script pane

  • A tool pane

Menu and toolbar

The menu offers a wide range of options, for some of which the toolbar offers shorthand icons. For now, the most important options to take note of are:

Function

Description

File | Reload

Runs the entire script to reload the data

File | Save Entire Document

Saves the entire document, not just the script

Tab | Add Tab

As we have...