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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

3.5 (2)
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.
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Containers

In this section, we will look at containers, why you need to use them, and then, finally, we will look at examples.

So, first of all, what are containers? As the name suggests, it contains multiple objects, so that you can utilize real estate on the screen to show your charts effectively. Why containers? As we just read, they can contain multiple objects, so if you have 10 different charts, you will have just one object, which is the container on the main screen. Then, you can scroll through the multiple charts, and thus reduce the amount of space that you are using. This helps reduce clutter in your dashboard.

So, let's see it with the help of an example. In the QlikView application that we are working on, we will create a container by right-clicking and adding a new container from the New Sheet Object option. We will get the following window:

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