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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 new tabs

In this section, we are going to cover how to create a new tab, rename a tab, and change the look and feel of a tab. Let's get started.

We will go into the QlikView application and open the document that we have been working on so far, the Airline Metrics application. Now, we will create another tab other than Main for ease of use. We will go into the Layout menu and click on Add Sheet:

Once that is done, another blank screen will appear, where we can paint whatever picture we want to.

Now, if you want to rename it for a specific use case, you can right-click on the tab and go to the Sheet Properties, and, in the General tab, you can change the sheet name in the Title textbox. Let's rename it Dashboard, and then click Apply. Some additional options present in the display include the background styling:

As seen in the preceding screenshot, there are...