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QlikView for Developers

You're reading from   QlikView for Developers Design and build scalable and maintainable BI solutions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786469847
Length 546 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Miguel  Angel Garcia Miguel Angel Garcia
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Barry Harmsen Barry Harmsen
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Meet QlikView FREE CHAPTER 2. What's New in QlikView 12? 3. Seeing is Believing 4. Data Sources 5. Data Modeling 6. Styling Up 7. Building Dashboards 8. Scripting 9. Data Modeling Best Practices 10. Basic Data Transformation 11. Advanced Expressions 12. Set Analysis and Point In Time Reporting 13. Advanced Data Transformation 14. More on Visual Design and User Experience 15. Security Index

Working with listboxes


Currently, our QlikView document contains the following listboxes in the Dashboard sheet:

  • Carrier's Operating Region

  • Carrier Group

  • Flight Type

  • Aircraft Group

  • Year

  • Quarter

  • Month

Let's see how we can add listboxes and change their properties.

Adding listboxes

Lets add another listbox representing the Carrier Name field by right-clicking on the worksheet and selecting Properties… (or by pressing Ctrl + Alt + S, which is the shortcut for the Settings | Sheet Properties menu command). Next, open the Fields tab, locate the Carrier Name field under the Available Fields list, and click on Add > to add it as a new listbox.

Tip

Many routes lead to Rome

To add an object to a worksheet, there are three basic methods: using the menu, using the toolbar, or using the pop-up menu:

Menu: By selecting Layout | New Sheet Object

Toolbar: By using the design toolbar

Pop-up: By right-clicking on a blank space within the worksheet and choosing the desired object from the New Sheet...

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