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Hands-On Dashboard Development with QlikView

Hands-On Dashboard Development with QlikView

By : Agarwal
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Hands-On Dashboard Development with QlikView

Hands-On Dashboard Development with QlikView

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By: Agarwal

Overview of this book

QlikView is one of the market leaders when it comes to building effective Business Intelligence solutions. This book will show how you can leverage its power to build your own dashboards to tell your own data story. The book starts with showing you how to connect your data to QlikView and create your own QlikView application. You will learn how to add data from multiple sources, create a data model by joining data, and then review it on the front end. You will work with QlikView components such as charts, list boxes, input boxes, and text objects to create stunning visualizations that help give actionable business insights. You will also learn how to perform analysis on your data in QlikView and master the various types of security measures to be taken in QlikView. By the end of this book, you will have all the essential knowledge required for insightful data storytelling and creating useful BI dashboards using QlikView.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)
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Adding KPIs

Here, we will look at adding KPIs, which are, basically, key performance indicators.

So, let's go ahead and open QlikView. We will use the same application that we worked on in Chapter 4, Components in QlikView. However, we will create a new tab, where we will replicate all of the work that we have done in the Main tab. For that, we can right-click on the Main tab, and click on Copy Sheet. Once we copy it, another copy of the Main tab has been created for us. Now, we will rename the replicated tab as Dashboard.

Now, in the Dashboard tab, we will remove all the charts and unwanted components present there, so that the only things left on the dashboard are the list boxes. We want to clear everything from the dashboard so that it is uncluttered, which makes it easier for us to work on KPIs. The following screenshot shows the dashboard once everything has been prepared...

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