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Qlik Sense Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Pablo Labbe, Philip Hand, Neeraj Kharpate
Book Image

Qlik Sense Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Pablo Labbe, Philip Hand, Neeraj Kharpate

Overview of this book

Qlik Sense allows you to explore simple and complex data to reveal hidden insight and data relationships that help you make quality decisions for overall productivity. An expert Qlik Sense user can use its features for business intelligence in an enterprise environment effectively. Qlik Sense Cookbook is an excellent guide for all aspiring Qlik Sense developers and will empower you to create featured desktop applications to obtain daily insights at work. This book takes you through the basics and advanced functions of Qlik Sense February 2018 release. You’ll start with a quick refresher on obtaining data from data files and databases, and move on to some more refined features including visualization, and scripting, as well as managing apps and user interfaces. You will then understand how to work with advanced functions like set analysis and set expressions. As you make your way through this book, you will uncover newly added features in Qlik Sense such as new visualizations, label expressions and colors for dimension and measures. By the end of this book, you will have explored various visualization extensions to create your own interactive dashboard with the required tips and tricks. This will help you overcome challenging situations while developing your applications in Qlik Sense.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Structuring the script


The techniques for adding structure to the script is something that comes naturally to experienced developers. This is because they have often learned it the hard way, through other people's work, and spent additional time understanding that the script can be made easier with a couple of simple additions. Again, this is something that won't be covered in user guides, but it is a very important skill for new developers to have under their belt.

Getting ready

In this example, we will generate the required data automatically in the script.

How to do it…

  1. Create a new Qlik Sense application and name it Structuring Scripts.
  2. Create a new section in the Data load editor called Change Log.
  3. Add the following code:
/*
This application demonstrates the importance of adding 
   structure to the back end script of your applications
 
Change Log:
 
[10/06/2015] Philip Hand: Initial build  
 
*/

 

  1. Create another section called Calendar and add the following script:
/*======================...