Tag Archives: QlikView

Writeback in QlikView

Posted on July 2, 2011 by Jay Jakosky

The ability to push data from QlikView back out to a database is beneficial for what-if analysis, financial reporting, CRM dashboards and more. Unfortunately our ability to achieve this, even using custom code, is limited. On the frontend, there are … Continue reading →

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Copying and Pasting Colors In QlikView

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Jay Jakosky

It is possible to copy and paste color settings among all layout objects! Even two-color gradients can be easily copied and pasted. If the destination object doesn’t support gradients, the first color is kept and the second color is ignored. … Continue reading →

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Can a humble Chart object get some love?

Posted on April 1, 2011 by Jay Jakosky

If there was just one question I could ask at this year’s Qonnections 2011, it would be this… When are we going to see improvements to the most basic QlikView task: displaying data? Look at the following examples from competitors… … Continue reading →

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Trigger QlikView Publisher EDX Task From Windows Powershell

Posted on March 31, 2011 by Jay Jakosky

Here’s a script to trigger an EDX task from Powershell. As it is, you will need to change QVSERVER to match your server name. The script can then be run from the command line by passing the task name and … Continue reading →

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A Brief Look at QlikView Storage

Posted on October 4, 2010 by Jay Jakosky

You can learn a lot about how QlikView stores data in memory by looking at how it stores data on disk in QVDs. QVDs are QlikView’s proprietary data storage format. QVDs are in a format optimized for reading into memory. … Continue reading →

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Where Have The QlikView Bloggers Gone?

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Jay Jakosky

Are we waiting for QlikView 10? It’s so quiet out here in the blogosphere.

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QlikView Scalability

Posted on May 5, 2010 by Jay Jakosky

QlikTech recently announced their Scalability Center for customers to evaluate their QlikView apps under load and using the best servers available. At the time of the announcement, just one day after Intel’s own, they say they will have systems based … Continue reading →

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The Year in QlikView

Posted on January 8, 2010 by Jay Jakosky

A subtle and powerful shift happened last year. I was building a QlikView application for financials. My client and I had discussed the idea of this application a year earlier but it was impossible then. Version 8.5 had not been … Continue reading →

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What’s “possible” in QlikView 9…

Posted on July 2, 2009 by Jay Jakosky

QlikView 9 adds a powerful new feature to Set Analysis. Continue reading →

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QlikView 9: Export Document Layout to XML

Posted on April 29, 2009 by Jay Jakosky

One of the new features in QlikView 9 is “Export Document Layout”. Despite the name, the entire application without data is exported to XML: script, layout, embedded images, everything! I exported the blank “New” document to XML. Click here to … Continue reading →

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