Monthly Archives: May 2008

Corrected: How To Request A Ticket Using QlikView’s HTTP Server

WordPress destroys code. Live and learn. You can download the code here.

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How To Request A Ticket Using QlikView’s HTTP Server

My apologies for the code that was posted here. Copying and pasting broke the code. Download a ZIP of the code here. I have expanded on the demo code that was floating around at Qonnections 2008. That code included an … Continue reading

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String vs. Numeric Comparisons

I don’t know if you use a lot of Sum-If logic like I do. It’s a blessing and a curse. For example: sum(if(Category=’Sales’,Amount)). It just doesn’t scale up to tens of millions of rows. Even with only a million rows, … Continue reading

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Using QlikView Tickets

Starting in Server 8.2, QlikView authentication is much more flexible with tickets. I’m just getting started with them myself, and I’ll be sharing the resources I find along the way. Big thanks to Dan English, Johan Jeanson and Claes Linsefors … Continue reading

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Faster Reloads With “Core Control”

QlikView is multi-threaded in many areas but not during the load process. Next time you’re running a load script, open the Windows Task Manager. If you have 2 cores, the processor usage will never go above 50%. You can to … Continue reading

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Feedback For Expression Variables

My thanks to Henric Cronström for taking the time to review my post on expression variables. He said the name for this new feature is still being decided. And he had some valuable information for getting started. Your text is … Continue reading

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Seeing Dollar Signs in QlikView 8.5

One of the more interesting features coming in QlikView 8.5 is “Dollar-Sign Expansion with an Expression”, Section 24.5 in the coming Reference Manual. One place in the manual they are called “on-the-fly variables”, but I prefer “expression variables”. In many … Continue reading

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New in QV8.5: New Gauge Chart

It is still in development as of the beta. Looks nice.

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New In QV8.5: Plateau Line Chart

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Create a Bullet Graph In QlikView + Video

What settings do you use for the gauge and bar charts? Watch the video! Stephen Few, who spoke at the QlikView conference in April, devised the bullet graph a few years ago. A QlikView customer used bullet graphs and sparklines … Continue reading

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