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QlikView 11 for Developers

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QlikView 11 for Developers

Overview of this book

Business Intelligence technologies are a must-have in every business to make informed decisions and keep up-to speed with the ever-evolving markets. QlikView's disruptive technology makes it a key player and leader in the industry; with its flexibility and powerful analytics environment, building QlikView apps can be mastered by both, business users as well as developers. This book will help you learn QlikView Development from a basic to a practitioner level using a step-by-step approach in a practical environment, and apply proven best practices on each topic. Throughout the book, we will build a QlikView app based on real data about Airline Operations that will help "HighCloud Airlines" make informed business decisions and analysis-guided strategies. HighCloud Airlines executives are evaluating if entering the US market is a good strategy and, if so, which line of business should they focus their investments on; they need QlikView to make the best decision. The application will be evolving chapter by chapter, along with your skills, going from a simple proof of concept to creating a Data Model, adding a custom style, building a Dashboard and handling and manipulating the source data via script. We will meet the "HighCloud Airlines" requirement by using many different data visualization objects and time-saving techniques. The whole application uses real data taken from the Bureau of Transportations statistics of the US and encompasses the operations of Airlines both domestic and international. With three years worth of data, you will help HighCloud Airlines discover where people travel the most, which are the Carriers with the most market share, what is the average load factor per airline, which aircraft is the most used to perform flights, which are the busiest airports, and a whole universe of new insights.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
QlikView 11 for Developers
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating and applying a default color map


Now there is only one thing left to do to finish styling up our document: apply the standard HighCloud color scheme to our charts.

Defining chart colors

We'll start by applying the HighCloud colors to the Traffic per Year chart. Follow these steps:

  1. Right-click on the bar chart and select Properties….

  2. Navigate to the Colors tab.

  3. From the Data Appearance section, click on the first color button under the Colors 1-6 list, and the already familiar Color Area dialog will appear.

  4. Change the Base Color to the already defined HighCloud Blue and close the Color Area window.

  5. Then, click on the second color button from the color map and change it to HighCloud Brown.

  6. Click on OK to close the Chart Properties window.

Once we've changed the color map, our chart will adopt the new colors in the order that was defined. At this time, only one color (HighCloud Blue) is used by the chart. However, we will use the same color map for all of our future charts, and some of them...