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QlikView: Advanced Data Visualization

You're reading from   QlikView: Advanced Data Visualization Discover deeper insights with Qlikview by building your own rich analytical applications from scratch

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Published in Dec 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789955996
Length 786 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Barry Harmsen Barry Harmsen
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Miguel  Angel Garcia Miguel Angel Garcia
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QlikView: Advanced Data Visualization
Contributors
Preface
1. Performance Tuning and Scalability FREE CHAPTER 2. QlikView Data Modeling 3. Best Practices for Loading Data 4. Advanced Expressions 5. Advanced Scripting 6. What's New in QlikView 12? 7. Styling Up 8. Building Dashboards 9. Advanced Data Transformation 10. Security 11. Data Visualization Strategy 12. Sales Perspective 13. Financial Perspective 14. Marketing Perspective 15. Working Capital Perspective 16. Operations Perspective 17. Human Resources 18. Fact Sheets 19. Balanced Scorecard 20. Troubleshooting Analysis 21. Mastering Qlik Sense Data Visualization 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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