If asked what data sources QlikView will load from, I will say almost any data source. It’s the “almost” which is a bit irksome – but there are ways of loading from even more sources than are available out of the box. […]
Everyone has their way of creating a QlikView calendar script. Here, however, I argue you should ditch that script and do something different. […]
Since launching the AskQV site I have found myself using it as my first port of call when reminding myself of what someone had put in their blog post a while back. This has however meant that I have spotted a couple of items that no one has blogged on before. This post aims to rectify that for the use of the STORE statement to write a CSV. […]
When searching the entire Internet for that bit of information that you can remember you read on a QlikView blog a while back; you are inevitably faced with many results that are not at all relevant. Questions from Qlik Community, vendors selling licences and even other BI app providers muscling in on the search results. That is why we have built AskQV – a more useful QlikView search engine. […]
When there is a need to count the same value against a number of dimension QlikView provides a number of ways of achieving this. Not all of them work entirely as you would like. This simple data model approach provides another way. […]
No one can deny the analytical power of QlikView. What can sometimes let it down though is its ability to produce quality static or printed output. Enter NPrinting and it’s shiny new PixelPerfect feature. […]
Recently I posted a solution to a thread on Qlik Community that I thought would be worth sharing with readers of this blog. The question was around speading up the load times from an increasing number of CSV files arriving in a drop folder. The solution I gave used a couple of helpful techniques. Here I look to take those techniques further. […]
This series of posts is designed to capture the things that I do all the time when building QlikView apps that may not be so obvious to others. This quick tip certainly falls into this camp. If you have ever wanted to move the legend or a label in a chart but have been unable to do so – read on. […]
It is generally accepted that the must have reference for QlikView is the book QlikView 11 For Developers. But what if you want someone to guide you through the book face to face, or you want to deliver training courses based on its contents? Well, you will be requiring the QlikView 11 For Developers Training Materials, or details of when someone is delivering those materials. […]
In part four of my Back to Basics series I am looking at keeping things simple. It is said a picture tells a thousand words – but often with a dashboard brevity is key. Perhaps you need only say ‘Raise Prices’ or ‘Something’s Broken’. How should you aim to achieve this in your own dashboards? […]
