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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)

Security scripts

So, let's begin with the most important question – what is a security script? As you must be aware, whenever you share your application, it's generally protected with a username and password. So, if it contains sensitive data, which in most cases it will, then you would not want anybody to open that document and get all the information. So, you will need a username and password based on the user type, which is why you need a security script.

Best practices for enabling a security script

Now, let's look at the best practice for enabling this.

The best practice is to make a copy of the document as a backup, and then make the changes in the original document for enabling the security script...