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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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Subroutines


Subroutines are small chunks of code that you can easily include in your apps to automate common actions. As they are built using QlikView script, they can perform a wide variety of actions, and their ability to receive parameters makes them very flexible.

In this chapter's material, you can find an example that includes three bonus subroutines:

  • StoreQVD: This subroutine stores a table in QVD. Afterwards, it drops the table and keeps some useful metadata, such as the number of records and the time spent loading each element.

  • ImageBundleLoad: Instead of creating an inline table with all the images you need in your dashboard, arrange them in a single folder (it can contain several subfolders), and load them automagically with this subroutine (no, that's not a typo).

  • LoadVariables: Using the Variable Overview window to create all the variables in the document can be troublesome and sometimes give you nasty surprises (if you are a seasoned QlikView developer, you have surely erased...

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