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QlikView 11 for Developers

You're reading from   QlikView 11 for Developers This book is smartly built around a practical case study – HighCloud Airlines – to help you gain an in-depth understanding of how to build applications for Business Intelligence using QlikView. A superb hands-on guide.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849686068
Length 534 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (23) Chapters Close

QlikView 11 for Developers
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Meet QlikView 2. Seeing is Believing FREE CHAPTER 3. Data Sources 4. Data Modeling 5. Styling Up 6. Building Dashboards 7. Scripting 8. Data Modeling Best Practices 9. Basic Data Transformation 10. Advanced Expressions 11. Set Analysis and Point In Time Reporting 12. Advanced Data Transformation 13. More on Visual Design and User Experience 14. Security Index

The Multi Box


While listboxes are a very convenient way to quickly make selections, the downside is that they can also take up a lot of space. This is where the multi box offers an alternative. The multi box displays each field on a single line, alongside a drop-down that expands to allow selections to be made.

Let's add a multi box that contains some extra information on flights, by following these steps:

  1. Select Layout | New Sheet Object | Multi Box….

  2. In the Title input field enter Flight Information.

  3. From the list of Available Fields, double-click the fields From – To City, Origin City, Origin Country, Destination City, Destination Country, and Distance Interval.

  4. Go to the Sort tab and select Distance Interval from the list of Fields.

  5. In the Sort by section, uncheck the Text option, and mark the Load Order checkbox.

  6. Click on OK to apply the settings and close the Multi Box Properties page.

The resulting multi box should look like the one shown in the following screenshot. Notice how the list of...

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