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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)

Getting data from databases

We are going to look at getting data from the QlikView data file and the MS Access database.

  1. For this, let's go to QlikView. We will use the application that we worked on in the previous section, containing the data we imported from the .csv file. We will open the Edit Script window to change our data source.
  1. For accessing data from MS Access, we will go to the Database section, choose ODBC for MS Access, and ensure that Force 32 Bit is selected. After that, you need to click on Connect.... This leads to the following window:
  1. In this window, we need to choose the MS Access Database option and click on OK.
  2. Once you click on OK, you will need to select your folder where the database is present, as shown here:
  1. After the correct database has been selected, we can go ahead and click on OK. This leads to the addition of the CONNECT32 statement...