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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)

Multi boxes

In this section, we will look at how we can create a multi box, why we need it, and some of its properties.

Let's go to QlikView and get started. We will right-click anywhere on your blank screen, go to the New Sheet Object option, and select the Multi Box option.

Here, the Multi Box option will give you the various fields that you can choose. Choose a couple of fields that you are interested in, and then click on OK. This results in the following output:

The benefit of multi boxes is that you can group all the filters. Instead of having dozens of list boxes all over the screen, we can combine them into a multi box, where you can choose the required values easily.

Properties of multi box

Now, let's go...