QlikView Business Discovery London 2013
By way of promoting the Business Discovery London 2013 event in October (the 22nd to be precise); QlikTech have put this video up on YouTube showing some highlights from last years event. […]
Introducing the QlikView Developers Cookbook
Many of you will know that I was one of the technical review team on QlikView 11 For Developers, the essential guide for those building QlikView applications. The same team have again joined forces to create a new book – the QlikView For Developers Cookbook. […]
QlikView Consultancy – How Much Do I Need?
It’s an obvious first question when looking at when purchasing QlikView, just how much QlikView consultancy am I going to need to make this investment in software a success. Unfortunately the answer is not so straight forward. […]
QlikView, NPrinting and Google Drive
QlikView Access Point allows users to interact with apps in their browser. But what if those users are not on your domain or only require static data? How can we get information to them in a way that is robust and cost effective? […]
QlikView Buttons – When, Why and How
You might think that there is not much to say about buttons in QlikView. If so you are probably not thinking much beyond a shiny lozenge of a thing that invites you to Clear Current Selections. I’m here to convince you otherwise. […]
9 Essential QlikView Development Tools
QlikView is, of course, my software of choice. However, I would not want to be going on client site to do a job without some other tools in my kit bag. Read on to find out the QlikView development tools I use. Which of these do you use? What other tools should I consider? […]
Hidden QlikView Features
Recently I blogged on Include Files in QlikView, and mentioned the fact that QlikView doesn’t advise you when an include file was missing. This led to a discussion on QlikCommunity and a revelation to me of a new feature. This feature is not documented in the QlikView help files and Google turned up just one result for it. […]
QlikView Caption Contest
Captions on charts and tables are quite useful in QlikView, the colouring of the caption can denote currently selected objects and the caption provides an anchor to pick up and move objects by. If you are going to have captions then you should at least use them well. How? Read on.. […]
A Cautionary Tale of QlikView
This is another tale in the series of stories from the coalface of QlikView consultancy. This time it’s a story of what can happen when organic growth of applications occurs unchecked. It is also a warning. […]
QlikView Include Files
When developing QlikView apps it is a good idea to develop standards that you adopt across all of your documents. A good way of ensuring these standards are followed is to use Include files in your load scripts. QlikView Include files are snippets of code that are stored as text files outside of the QlikView app. Use of includes across multiple apps allows for effective code reuse. […]