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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

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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