Generational Differences in Working Styles

Hi, I'm working on something new at the moment and if you have two minutes it would be great if you could lend a hand.

Making Awesome Qlik Sense Date Dropdowns

One of my favourite things in Qlik Sense is the new calendar function, however talking with other developers I've found that some people don't know about them yet.

Here's how to get that lovely drop down expanding from all your date fields that you see in all the Qlik demoes...

How to write SQL stored procedures for Qlik

Recently I wanted to add one of my stored procedures for a different report into a dashboard to show the power of Sense (integrating pre system data with the new ERP system, Awesome!)

However, whatever I did, my stored procedure wouldn't run in Qlik Sense... so I did what I usually do in this situation and ran back to Qlikview to see if I could identify the problem and I couldn't! I should point out that this code was live and running fine in both SQL and crystal reports (a necessary evil for other projects!)

TL;DR version: the SP layout is at the end of the article!

Dealing with Salesforce Periods in Qlikview

SalesForce is brilliant and reporting on it in Qlikview is really easy with the Qlikview SalesForce Connector.

--However reporting on Forecasts with actual amounts turns into a bit of a nightmare, see below for how I've started puzzling this out

SQL Report Server OPS monitor

Time for something completely different, I'm of the opinion that whilst Qlikview is great for dash-boarding, sometimes having a SQL reporting server gives you functionality that can be useful.

I've created a useful dashboard that allows monitoring of the SQL reporting execution logs.


Edit: now including screenshots of what's included

Quick SQL Reporting - processes and blocking

A quick Qlikview/SQL script to process monitoring - in place of using SP_WHO2

T-SQL Database Explorer Script

Dynamic SQL script to query all objects within a SQL instance for use in Qlikview.

Painting with Colours Part 1

Hello, and welcome back to One Qlik at a Time after a long hiatus.

Recently I've been playing with colours and I'm going to do a quick two part guide on how to change colours quickly and easily in your Qlikview docs. Starting right from scratch today and moving onto best practices in the next post.

Part 1 (Basic)

1. Changing colours on a chart
2. Applying colour defaults
3. Quickly change colours

Part 2 (Intermediate)

1. Defining colours with variables
2. Defining colours within the load script
3. User Defined Colours with triggers

Now let's get cracking, first you'll need to download my latest Qlikview so that you can follow along with the steps.  

Section access - part one (including inline wizard)

So you have written your first few reports, your company has gone wild for Qlikview and know it's time to think about how you're going to implement security on your reports.


This is the first of two parts on section access, Section Access is how Qlikview restricts data based upon your login.

Qlikview Charts with Colours

Matt over at Qlikview Addict, recently posted about how to create Gantt Charts in Qlikview.


Here's my quick post about how I customized my Gantt chart to colour my chart based off dates and adding a couple more data guidelines.  Please note that you will need to follow the original article before starting this...

Back door access to your Qlikview report

So you're working on a Qlikview document and then the next day you can't open it
 
We've all been there, maybe you're playing around with the relationships in your data.  Saved your work and then you open it and the charts trying to generate crashes your pc.
Or maybe you’ve been working on a report all day, got your data right and take it home to make your charts and your laptop hasn’t picked up a license from the server before you left.

Here’s a couple of ways you can save your reports and a quick note on limiting other people’s access to your data.

Quick Region Maps

So you need to map out your data but you either

• Don’t have database access
• Want to define your regions as per your client's request
•  NEED IT DONE YESTERDAY

If you have a postcode (or Zipcode) Don’t sweat, I have you covered with this Qlikview demo.  It’s ready to go in five minutes for UK readers and everyone else should be able to convert it in less than an hour.

Hello Qlikview!

Hello Qlikview!

I'm currently reading through this book, it's aimed as an introduction to Qlikview for complete novices and has got some nice examples so far.

I'll be posting a full review once I have finished it.

Sometimes it's so simple it's too obvious - drawing circles in Qlikview

A nice post I found over at BI Review


BI Review: How to draw circles and ellipses in QlikView:

In Statements in Qlikview - Match()

I don't know about everyone else but I have often googled for how to do an in statement in Qlikview.


#Note by an In statement I am referring to how to test one value against multiple values or a range of values


As searching for the word "in" in relation to Qlikvew is nigh on impossible here's a quick post explaining how to do it and how to use it for custom sort lists:

10 Reasons you should try out Qlikview

“Qlikview is great, all hail our wondrous shiny BI tool…” is the shout of Qlikview resellers everywhere, in this post I’m going to tell you why I think you should give it a try.

Qlikview isn’t perfect by any means, but here are some of the reasons that we first trialled it and then signed up.

A Quick Post - Exporting Current Selections with your data

I just came across this article and will be looking into it more in the future, as I have been asked multiple times on export if we can include the current selections.


I have a macro work around but it's quite clunky, this looks much more elegant


QlikTip #1: Transferring Current Selections to Excel-Export (translated)

Cooking with Qlikview Variables

So it's six days since my first post and here we are at 350 views!


I was originally planning to cover something more basic in this post but I had an idea earlier on this week that I thought would be a cool demo and after trying things out I think I have it.


This post is called "Cooking with Qlikview Variables", I will be using variables input on screen in order to generate data that is then used within the Qlikview document itself...

QlikView Scripts in Notepad++

Just a quick post: As a heavy user of notepad++ for SQL I think this is a great idea and will be trying this out in the near future and will give my feedback


QlikView Addict: QlikView Scripts in Notepad++:


'via Blog this'

Checking your data made it

So from my previous post, we know how to get data from an SQL database into our Qlikview document.

Today I'm going to cover how to quickly check that your data has made it into Qlikview in the state you wanted it in..