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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)

Importing data from Excel

In this section, we will learn how to import data from Excel. We will see how to use the data from Excel to display data in QlikView.

For that, let's go to the QlikView application that we created in the previous section, the Airline Metrics application. To import the data, we need to click on the Edit Script button in the toolbar. We can also use the shortcut Ctrl + E for easy access. This is an important item that you need to remember, because, most of the time, you will go here to load the data into QlikView, or to manage your scripts. The following screenshot shows what the Edit Script button looks like:

Now, let's go into the script by using Ctrl + E. This opens up a script window where a few variables have been prepared automatically for you:

These are nothing but the variables that have been set as a default for the system. For example...