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Creating Stunning Dashboards with QlikView

You're reading from   Creating Stunning Dashboards with QlikView Bring real business insights to your company through effective and engaging dashboards in QlikView

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2015
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ISBN-13 9781782175735
Length 188 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Julian Villafuerte Julian Villafuerte
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Current selections

So far, we have stated that all best practices are references that should be taken with a grain of salt. Well, this one is not: you should always let the user clearly see the current selections. QlikView dashboards tend to be very interactive due to the associative model. If your users lose visibility of which filters are applied, they can get wrong impressions and the decisions derived from them will be skewed. There are multiple ways to let the users know which selections are currently applied:

  • Current selection box: The most common and practical way to visualize selections is to add a current selection box. Although it takes some space, it is a great method to manage the filters due to the Clear and Dropdown Select options.
  • All the filters are visible: If your dashboard has few filters (and they are all visible), you can afford to omit the current selection box. Just beware of the selections made in other tabs as they may go unnoticed while returning to the dashboard...
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