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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

Aligning and resizing sheet objects


When we look at the results so far, we will notice that it looks very unorganized (as seen in the following screenshot). The objects are all over the place and are not aligned with the background. Of course, this is not very convenient for the user, so let's see how we can solve it.

Selecting objects

To select a single object, simply click on its caption. To select multiple objects, activate all of them by either clicking and dragging around them with the mouse cursor ("lassoing"), or by clicking on their captions while keeping the Shift key pressed.

Moving objects

Objects (or a selected group of objects) can be moved by clicking on the caption bar and dragging them to the desired location. Objects without a caption (for example, the listboxes showing Year, Quarter, and Month that we created earlier) can be dragged by holding Alt and clicking and dragging anywhere on the object. This method also works for objects with a visible caption, and even for objects...

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