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Hands-On Dashboard Development with QlikView

By : Abhishek Agarwal
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Hands-On Dashboard Development with QlikView

By: Abhishek Agarwal

Overview of this book

QlikView is one of the market leaders when it comes to building effective Business Intelligence solutions. This book will show how you can leverage its power to build your own dashboards to tell your own data story. The book starts with showing you how to connect your data to QlikView and create your own QlikView application. You will learn how to add data from multiple sources, create a data model by joining data, and then review it on the front end. You will work with QlikView components such as charts, list boxes, input boxes, and text objects to create stunning visualizations that help give actionable business insights. You will also learn how to perform analysis on your data in QlikView and master the various types of security measures to be taken in QlikView. By the end of this book, you will have all the essential knowledge required for insightful data storytelling and creating useful BI dashboards using QlikView.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

Creating an app

In this section, we will talk about how you can create an app. Here, we will create an air traffic statistics application, and save it in the folder that we created in the previous section.

For this, let's go to QlikView and create the app. Here, we will click on New to create an app, and, as mentioned in Chapter 1, Getting Started with QlikView, we won't be using the wizard.

Once you have created a new app, you need to save it by clicking on the Save button. We will navigate to the Airline Metrics | Apps folder, and then save our app as AirlineMetrics.qvw.

If everything goes well, the directory path where we saved the app will be displayed in the title bar at the top of the window.

If you are not interested in getting this entire path, what you can do is go into Settings -> Document Properties, and give a title:

Here, let's name it Airline...