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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• QlikView 11 for Developers
  • Table of Contents
  • QlikView 11 for Developers
  • Credits
  • Foreword
  • About the Authors
  • Acknowledgements
  • About the Reviewers
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  • Preface
    • What this book covers
    • What you need for this book
    • Who this book is for
    • Conventions
    • Reader feedback
    • Customer support
      • Downloading the example code
      • Disclaimer
      • Errata
      • Piracy
      • Questions
  • 1. Meet QlikView
    • What is QlikView?
      • How does QlikView differ from traditional BI?
        • Associative user experience
        • Technology
        • Adoption path
    • Exploring data with QlikView
      • Getting QlikView
      • Navigating the document
      • Slicing and dicing your data
        • List-boxes
        • Selections in charts
        • Search
        • Bookmarking selections
          • Creating a new bookmark
          • Retrieving a bookmark
        • Undoing selections
      • Changing the view
        • Cyclic Groups
        • Drill down Groups
        • Containers
      • But wait, theres more!
    • The technology and components behind QlikView
      • The way the data flows
      • When QlikView use expands
        • Create content
        • Reload, publish, and distribute content
        • Consume content
    • Meet HighCloud Airlines
    • Summary
  • 2. Seeing is Believing
    • What is a SiB?
    • Preparing the workspace
      • Setting up the folder structure
      • Creating the QlikView document
    • Creating the app
      • The requirements
      • Constructing the data model
        • What is a data model?
        • Loading the fact table
        • Playing with listboxes
        • Associating additional tables
          • Structuring the script
      • Creating the dashboard tab
        • Creating and positioning the filters and user controls
          • Optimizing the screen space
        • Number of flights over time
        • One chart and multiple analyses with cyclic expressions
        • Adding a time drill-down group
        • Top 10 routes
    • Summary
  • 3. Data Sources
    • Using ODBC and OLE DB drivers
      • Installing the drivers
    • Accessing custom data sources
      • Third-party custom connectors
    • Reading table files
    • Extracting datatwo hands-on examples
      • Extracting data from MS Access
        • Configuring the driver
          • How to set up an ODBC connection
        • Creating the OLE DB connection string
        • Querying the database
          • The Create Select Statement wizard
          • Adding the airport tables
        • Reloading the script
      • The resulting data model
      • Loading a table file
        • Specifying the file attributes
          • The CSV attributes
          • A word on Quoting
          • Previewing
        • The transformation step
        • Refining the input table
          • Where Clause wizard
          • The crosstable
      • The resulting script
    • QVD and QVX files
      • QVD files
      • QVX files
    • Loading an Inline table
    • Summary
  • 4. Data Modeling
    • Dimensional data modeling
      • Back in the day
      • Relational databases and ER modeling
      • Dimensional modeling
        • The star schema
        • The snowflake schema
        • Creating the dimensional model
          • Dealing with multiple fact tables
      • Dimensional models in QlikView
    • The associative data model
      • Guidelines for table associations
        • How associations are created
          • Renaming fields
          • Renaming fields with the Qualify statement
        • Avoiding data model conflicts
          • Dealing with synthetic keys
          • Creating a composite key
          • Dealing with circular references
    • The Table Viewer window
      • Table information
      • Field information
      • Table preview
      • Table viewer menu
    • Summary
  • 5. Styling Up
    • Design requirements
    • The Document Properties window
    • The Sheet Properties dialog
    • Setting the object properties
      • Caption colors and style
        • Changing the caption colors
          • The Color Area and Color dialog windows
        • Setting the caption font
        • Setting the content font
        • Setting the global font
      • Propagating the object appearance
      • Setting the default Sheet Object Style
      • Hiding captions
    • Working with listboxes
      • Adding listboxes
      • The List Box Properties dialog
        • The General tab
        • The Expressions tab
        • The Sort tab
        • The Presentation tab
        • The Number tab
        • The Font tab
        • The Layout tab
        • The Caption tab
    • The Multi Box
    • The Current Selections Box
      • Making selections from the Current Selections Box
    • Adding a Bookmark Object
    • Aligning and resizing sheet objects
      • Selecting objects
      • Moving objects
      • Resizing objects
        • Resizing a Multi Box
      • Aligning sheet objects
      • Do a little house keeping
    • Creating and applying a default color map
      • Defining chart colors
      • Setting the default color map
    • Summary
  • 6. Building Dashboards
    • User types
      • Dashboard users
      • Analysts
      • Report users
    • Applying the DAR principle to Airline Operations
      • Document requirements
    • Creating the Analysis sheet
      • Adding a new chart
      • Bar Chart
        • Additional bar chart properties
          • Style
          • Presentation
      • Expressions and the Edit Expression window
        • Expressions
        • The Edit Expression window
          • Fields
          • Functions
          • Variables
          • Images
        • The Expression Overview window
      • Line Chart
        • Additional line chart properties
          • Expressions
          • Style
          • Presentation
      • Combo Chart
      • Container
      • Scatter Chart
      • Button
      • Statistics box
    • Creating the new Dashboard sheet
      • Linked Objects
      • Gauges
        • Cloning the object for re-use
        • Adding Air Time %
        • More Gauge styles
      • Adding a Text object
        • Using a Text Object to display an image
        • Adding actions to a Text object
      • Adding a Pie chart
        • Dimension Limits
        • Adding the dimension value to the data point values
    • Creating the Reports sheet
      • Variables
        • The Expression Overview window in action
      • Copying sheets
      • KPIs per airline, origin, and destination country
        • Cyclic and Drill-down groups
      • Straight table
        • Not all expressions are numbers
      • Pivot tables
      • Auto minimize
      • The Report Editor window
    • Other charts
      • Radar Chart
      • Mekko Chart
      • Grid Chart
      • Funnel Chart
      • Block Chart
      • Trellis Chart
    • Summary
  • 7. Scripting
    • The Script Editor
      • Menu and toolbar
      • Script pane
      • Tool pane
    • Script statements
      • Building the aircraft dimension table
        • Loading the aircraft information
        • Adding the aircraft groups
        • Loading the second aircraft table
        • Making it all right
      • Manipulating tables
        • The JOIN statement
        • The KEEP statement
        • The CONCATENATE statement
        • The NOCONCATENATE statement
        • Using MAPPING tables
        • Adding comments
        • Storing tables
        • Renaming tables and fields
        • Deleting tables and fields
      • Setting variables
      • Controlling script flow
    • Conditional functions
    • Dealing with different data types
      • Strings
        • String operators
        • String functions
      • Numbers and numeric functions
      • Date and time functions
    • Debugging script
      • Syntax check
      • Saving logs to disk
      • The script debugger
        • Using breakpoints
        • Limited load
      • Tracing script
    • Standardizing and organizing script
      • Using tabs
      • Comments
      • Adding an information tab
      • Script layout
      • Naming conventions
        • Table naming conventions
        • Field naming conventions
    • Re-using scripts
      • Subroutines
      • Including script files
    • Managing file locations and connection strings
    • Summary
  • 8. Data Modeling Best Practices
    • Data consistency
      • Dealing with dimensions without facts
        • An alternative approach
        • A solo exercise
      • Dealing with facts without dimensions
    • Reducing storage requirements
      • Using number-based key fields
      • Removing unused fields
      • Splitting high-cardinality fields
    • Design challenges of data modeling
      • The Airline Employment statistics table
      • Concatenating fact tables
        • Structural asymmetry
        • Natural and forced concatenation
          • Natural concatenation
          • Forced concatenation
        • Concatenating the Employment Statistics table
      • Working with link tables
        • A link table example
        • Creating a link table in the Airline Operations document
      • Finding a balance
    • The master calendar
    • A final note on data modeling
    • Summary
  • 9. Basic Data Transformation
    • Changing the source table structure
      • "Cleansing" a dirty table
        • File contents
        • Working with the Transformation Step wizard
          • Throwing out the garbage
          • Unwrapping table contents
          • Filling missing cells
        • The final result
        • Other transformation tricks
      • Loading a Crosstable
        • A Crosstable example
        • Working with the Crosstable Wizard
        • A solo exercise
      • Expanding a hierarchy
        • A hierarchy example
        • Working with the Hierarchy Wizard
        • The tree-view list-box
      • Generic load
        • Loading a generic table into QlikView
    • Summary
  • 10. Advanced Expressions
    • Using variables
      • Creating a variable
      • Using variables in charts
      • Interactively changing a variable's value
        • Using the Input Box object
        • Using the Slider object
      • Using variables based on expressions
      • Using variables to store expressions
      • Variable naming convention
      • The Dollar Sign Expansion syntax
        • Dollar Sign Expansion with parameters
        • Double Dollar Sign Expansion
    • Using the TOTAL qualifier
    • The Aggr function
      • Using Aggr for nested aggregation
        • A word on calculated dimensions
      • Aggregations over the Aggr output
        • A word on using the Distinct qualifier
      • Getting the Average Load Factor per Route per Airline
    • Conditional functions
      • The If function
        • The syntax
        • A use case
          • Heat charts
          • A solo exercise
          • Building a heat chart with the Colormix wizard
        • Numeric versus text comparisons
      • The Class function
        • A solo exercise using the Class function
      • The Pick function
        • Using Pick with Dimensionality
    • A tip on copying expressions
    • Summary
  • 11. Set Analysis and Point In Time Reporting
    • The magic of Set Analysis
      • What is it for?
      • Syntax and examples
        • Using variables in set expressions
      • Dynamic record sets
      • More assignment operators
      • Set operators
      • Using element functions
    • Point In Time Reporting
      • The challenge
      • Defining the set modifiers
        • Obtaining the base period record set
        • Obtaining the compare-to period record set
      • Constructing the expressions
      • Enabling additional period comparisons
        • More Point In Time Reporting examples
      • Storing set expressions into variables
        • Set expressions with parameters
      • Portable set expressions
        • Set variables and the Master Calendar
    • Comparative analysis with alternate states
      • A comparative analysis example
      • Alternate states step-by-step
      • State-based expressions
        • Combining alternate states and the default state
      • Applying alternate states to layout objects
      • Document navigation with alternate states
        • Clearing selections in an alternate state
    • Always validate
    • Summary
  • 12. Advanced Data Transformation
    • Data architecture
      • Two-stage architecture
      • Three-stage architecture
      • Setting up our environment
    • Loading data already stored in QlikView
      • Cloning a QlikView data model
      • Loading from RAM
        • Resident load
    • Aggregating data
      • Aggregating the Flight Data table
      • The Transformation output
      • Aggregation functions
    • Sorting tables
      • Ordering the Order-By fields
    • The Peek function
    • Merging forces
      • A refresher
      • The objective
      • Getting it done
        • Loading the table
        • Sorting the table
        • Peeking previous records
        • A solo exercise
    • Dealing with slowly changing dimensions
      • The Carrier Decode table
      • IntervalMatch magic
        • Expanding the intervals
        • Some considerations
        • Applying IntervalMatch to the Carrier Decode table
    • Ordering, peeking, and matching all at once
      • The use case
    • Incremental loads
    • Summary
  • 13. More on Visual Design and User Experience
    • Creating a consistent QlikView UI
      • Screen resolution
      • Background image
      • Themes
        • Applying themes
        • Creating themes
          • Adding document properties
          • Adding sheet properties
          • Adding sheet object properties
          • A solo exercise
    • Additional interactivity
      • Triggers
        • Document triggers
        • Sheet triggers
      • Actions
      • Advanced search expressions
        • A solo exercise
      • Dynamic bookmarks
      • Alerts
      • Conditionally showing and calculating objects
    • Summary
  • 14. Security
    • Hidden script
    • Section access
      • Section access fields
      • Reduction fields
      • Initial data reduction
      • Omitting fields
    • Document-level security
    • Sheet-level security
    • Summary
  • Index

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