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

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.  

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...

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.

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: