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QlikView for Developers Cookbook. Take your QlikView training to the next level with this brilliant book that's packed with recipes which progress from intermediate to advanced. The step-by step-approach makes learning easy and enjoyable

Stephen Redmond

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QlikView has been around since 1993, but has only really taken off in recent years as a leader in the in-memory BI space and, more recently, in the data discovery area. QlikView features the ability to consolidate relevant data from multiple sources into a single application, as well as an associative data model to allow you to explore the data to a way your brain works, state-of-the-art visualizations, dashboard, analysis and reports, and mobile data access.

QlikView for Developers Cookbook builds on your initial training and experiences with QlikView to help you become a better developer. This book features plenty of hands-on examples of many challenging functions.

Assuming a basic understanding of QlikView development, this book provides a range of step-by-step exercises to teach you different subjects to help build your QlikView developer expertise.

From advanced charting and layout to set analysis; from advanced aggregations through to scripting, performance, and security, this book will cover all the areas that you need to know about.

The recipes in this book will give you a lot of the information that you need to become an excellent QlikView developer.

QlikView for Developers Cookbook
- Table of Contents
- QlikView for Developers Cookbook
- Credits
- Foreword
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
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- Preface
  - What this book covers
  - What you need for this book
  - Who this book is for
  - Conventions
  - Reader feedback
  - Customer support
    - Downloading the example code
    - Errata
    - Piracy
    - Questions
- 1. Charts
  - Introduction
  - Creating custom pop-up labels on a bar chart
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it
    - How it works
    - Theres more
  - Creating a box plot chart for a simple data set
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it
    - How it works
    - There's more
    - See also
  - Using the wizard to create a box plot chart
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it
    - How it works
    - There's more
    - See also
  - Creating a "Stephen Few" bullet chart
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it
    - How it works
    - There's more
    - See also
  - Creating a modified bullet chart in a straight table
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it
    - How it works
    - There's more
    - See also
  - Creating a bar chart in a straight table
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it
    - How it works
    - There's more
    - See also
  - Creating a Redmond Aged Debt Profile chart
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it
    - How it works
    - There's more
    - See also
  - Creating a waterfall chart
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it
    - How it works
    - There's more
  - Replacing the legend in a line chart with labels on each line
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it
    - How it works
    - There's more
    - See also
  - Creating a secondary dimension in a bar chart
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it
    - How it works
    - There's more
  - Creating a line chart with variable width lines
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it
    - How it works
    - There's more
  - Brushing parallel coordinates
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it
    - How it works
    - There's more
    - See also
  - Using redundant encoding with a scatter chart
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it
    - How it works
    - There's more
  - Staggering labels in a pie chart
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it
    - How it works
    - There's more
  - Creating dynamic ad hoc analysis in QlikView
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it
    - How it works
    - There's more
- 2. Layout
  - Introduction
  - Changing the default object layout options
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it
    - How it works
    - See also
  - Changing the default selection color scheme
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it
    - How it works
    - There's more
    - See also
  - Modifying the green, white, and gray selection color schemes
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it
    - How it works
    - There's more
    - See also
  - Modifying the green, white, and gray selection color schemes in QlikView Server
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it
    - How it works
    - See also
  - Using containers as an alternative to multiboxes
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it
    - How it works
  - Using the design menus to custom format a cell
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it
    - How it works
    - There's more
- 3. Set Analysis
  - Introduction
  - Using dollar expansion in Set Analysis to enable from-date and to-date selection
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Using alternate states with Set Analysis
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
    - See Also
  - Using Set operators to exclude values from results
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
  - Using Set Analysis with a Date Island
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
    - See Also
  - Using Sets to avoid key tables
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
- 4. Advanced Aggregations
  - Introduction
  - Using TOTAL to calculate the percentage of total and subtotal
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
  - Using AGGR to calculate the percentage of the maximum value
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
  - Using AGGR to resolve a "Sum of Rows" issue
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
    - See also
  - Creating a dynamic AGGR expression for a Group dimension using Dollar Expansion
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - See also
  - Using RangeMax to return only positive numbers
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
    - See also
  - Creating a dynamic Part-to-Whole pie chart
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
    - See also
  - Creating a colored treemap using colormix
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
  - Using RangeSum to calculate a rolling total in a multidimension table
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
  - Showing only the top 3 values in a pivot table
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
  - Creating a Statistical Control Chart using Standard Deviation
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
    - See also
  - Creating a Moving Range chart
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
    - See also
  - Creating a control chart using Moving Range
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
    - See also
- 5. Advanced Coding
  - Introduction
  - Extracting QlikView data to a Word report
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it
    - How it works
    - There's more
    - See also
  - Printing reports to PDF using PDFCreator
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it
    - How it works
    - See also
  - Creating a chart using a macro
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it
    - How it works
    - There's more
  - Using VBS functions in charts
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it
    - How it works
    - There's more
- 6. Data Modeling
  - Introduction
  - Concatenation of fact tables to avoid loops and synthetic keys
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
    - See also
  - Creating a Key/Link table in QlikView
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
    - See also
- 7. Extensions
  - Introduction
  - Creating a simple HTML extension
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it
    - How it works
    - There's more
    - See also
  - Creating a simple HTML table
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it
    - How it works
    - There's more
    - See also
  - Creating an interactive extension
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it
    - How it works
    - There's more
    - See also
  - Using external libraries with extensions
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it
    - How it works
    - There's more
    - See also
- 8. Useful Functions
  - Introduction
  - Handling null in numeric fields or calculations
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it
    - How it works
    - There's more
    - See also
  - Using Dual to handle period name sorting
    - How to do it
    - How it works
    - There's more
    - See also
  - Parsing text to numbers and dates
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it
    - How it works
    - There's more
    - See also
  - Calculating Year To Date dynamically
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it
    - How it works
    - There's more
  - Labeling a pie chart to replace the legend
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it
    - How it works
    - There's more
    - See also
  - Calculating the lowest or highest value in a range
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it
    - How it works
    - There's more
  - Consolidating a date-time value into quarter hourly segments
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it
    - How it works
    - There's more
  - Dynamically filtering by From/To dates
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it
    - How it works
    - There's more
- 9. Script
  - Introduction
  - Creating flags in the script
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
  - Replacing IsNull
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
  - Storing and dropping using a subroutine
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
    - See also
  - Keeping a trace on things
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
    - See also
  - Using the AND mode in listboxes
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
  - Using Exists and Keep to limit the data load
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
  - Setting the default display format
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
    - See also
  - Setting the default sort order
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
    - See also
  - Matching financial periods to dates
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
    - See also
  - Handling partial reload in the script
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
  - Using Peek and Previous to calculate against loaded records
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
  - Creating a simple Gantt for a dashboard using Interval Match
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - See also
  - Reading users from Active Directory
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Getting a sub-URL using the Table wizard
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
  - Using parameters in Dollar Sign Expansion
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Removing fields with a wildcard
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
  - Handling multiple subfolders in a script
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
- 10. Improving Performance
  - Introduction
  - Reducing the number of distinct values
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it
    - How it works
    - There's more
    - See also
  - Creating counter fields to avoid Count Distinct
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it
    - How it works
    - There's more
    - See also
  - Creating flag fields to avoid Sum of If and other inefficient expressions
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it
    - How it works
    - There's more
    - See also
  - Denormalizing for performance
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it
    - How it works
    - There's more
    - See also
- 11. Security
  - Introduction
  - Section Access gotchas
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it
    - How it works
    - There's more
    - See also
  - Blocking user access to a field using OMIT
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it
    - How it works
    - There's more
    - See also
  - Making all values available to Admins and Managers
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it
    - How it works
    - There's more
    - See also
- Index

Title: QlikView for Developers Cookbook. Take your QlikView training to the next level with this brilliant book that's packed with recipes which progress from intermediate to advanced. The step-by step-approach makes learning easy and enjoyable
Author: Stephen Redmond
Original title: QlikView for Developers Cookbook. Take your QlikView training to the next level with this brilliant book that's packed with recipes which progress from intermediate to advanced. The step-by step-approach makes learning easy and enjoyable.
ISBN: 9781782179740, 9781782179740
Date of issue: 2013-06-24
Format: Ebook
Item ID: e_3czx
Publisher: Packt Publishing

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