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Qlikview Unlocked

You're reading from   Qlikview Unlocked Unlock more than 50 amazing tips and tricks to enhance your QlikView skills

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785285127
Length 196 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Roger Stone Roger Stone
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Andrew Dove Andrew Dove
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Behind Every Successful Project Is a Plan FREE CHAPTER 2. Building the Correct Environment 3. Are You Sitting Comfortably? Be More Productive 4. It's All About Understanding the Data 5. The Right Data Model Pays Dividends 6. Make It Easy on Yourself – Some QlikView Tips and Tricks 7. Improving Chart Performance and Usability 8. To Deployment and Beyond A. Hidden Image List
Index

Making charts more readable

Occasionally, we have used Borchester Models' data to demonstrate certain ideas and features. Have a look at this script fragment:

Stock:
LOAD [Shop No], 
     [Product Code], 
     [On Hand]
FROM
[QlikView Unlocked Data.xlsx]
(ooxml, embedded labels, table is Stock);

What is required here is a chart showing stock levels by product across all shops. However, if we just let QlikView do the sorting, it will use Product Code, and we will see something similar to this:

Making charts more readable

This is okay, but it's not really helpful. As there's a scroll bar, we can't see what we have the most stock of—it might be B112, but unless we scroll across, we won't know. Furthermore, it is hard to determine the relative differences between the stock levels of other products.

To make this much more readable, we just need to make a simple change in the properties of the chart object on the Sort tab, as follows:

Making charts more readable

By simply changing the sort to Y-value (and in this case, using...

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