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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)

Bookmarks

In this section, we will take a look at how to create a bookmark, and then examine the various properties related to bookmarks.

Let's open the QlikView document we are working on. Let's say that I need to do some quick analysis – maybe I just want to select some international data, so I will need to select some values for my analysis. We will select values from all the list boxes present, and use them for analysis.

But, let's say that once you are done with that, and you click on Clear, all your selections will be gone, and to use the same selections, you will have to remember it or note it down somewhere, so that you can make sure that you are selecting only those values that were selected for that analysis earlier. But a good thing about QlikView is that it's pretty easy to document all the information about selections—for this, we...