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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

Creating the app


We can think of a QlikView document as being composed of two major elements:

  • The dataset that the user analyzes: This is the backend of our QlikView document and includes all of the source tables needed to build a data model, as well as the logic to update its source data.

  • The user interface through which the user analyzes the data: This is the frontend of our analytical app and includes the objects contained in he document (like a listbox to make selections and filter data), or the charts and tables used to visualize the information.

In hand with the elements described above, we will break the construction of our QlikView document into two major phases:

  • Constructing the data model

  • Designing the user interface

However, before moving on to create our QlikView document, we should have a clear understanding of the business-side requirements for our app, so the construction and design phases are fully focused towards meeting those requirements.

The requirements

In our SiB scenario...

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