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Hands-On Dashboard Development with QlikView

You're reading from   Hands-On Dashboard Development with QlikView Practical guide to creating interactive and user-friendly business intelligence dashboards

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838646110
Length 156 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Abhishek Agarwal Abhishek Agarwal
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Containers

In this section, we will look at containers, why you need to use them, and then, finally, we will look at examples.

So, first of all, what are containers? As the name suggests, it contains multiple objects, so that you can utilize real estate on the screen to show your charts effectively. Why containers? As we just read, they can contain multiple objects, so if you have 10 different charts, you will have just one object, which is the container on the main screen. Then, you can scroll through the multiple charts, and thus reduce the amount of space that you are using. This helps reduce clutter in your dashboard.

So, let's see it with the help of an example. In the QlikView application that we are working on, we will create a container by right-clicking and adding a new container from the New Sheet Object option. We will get the following window:

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