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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

Setting the object properties


It's now time to peek into some of the object-level properties that affect the QlikView document's appearance. The properties we are most interested in at this point are:

  • Caption colors

  • Caption font

Let's see what these are.

Caption colors and style

By default, almost every object in the QlikView document has a caption bar at the top, unless we choose to explicitly hide it. Since the caption bar will be visible for most of our objects, let's apply a touch of corporate identity by setting the default caption color to HighCloud Blue and by selecting a custom styling mode.

Changing the caption colors

Follow these steps to apply a new formatting style to caption bars:

  1. Right-click on any of the listboxes on the sheet, for example, Carrier's Operating Region.

  2. Select Properties… and navigate to the Caption tab.

Two types of caption colors can be set: one for when the object is Inactive and one for when the object is Active. An active object is the one on which the user has last...

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