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QlikView 11 for Developers

You're reading from  QlikView 11 for Developers

Product type Book
Published in Nov 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849686068
Pages 534 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (23) Chapters

QlikView 11 for Developers
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Meet QlikView 2. Seeing is Believing 3. Data Sources 4. Data Modeling 5. Styling Up 6. Building Dashboards 7. Scripting 8. Data Modeling Best Practices 9. Basic Data Transformation 10. Advanced Expressions 11. Set Analysis and Point In Time Reporting 12. Advanced Data Transformation 13. More on Visual Design and User Experience 14. Security Index

Conditional functions


There are several conditional functions in QlikView that can be used in the frontend to give our charts a higher level of flexibility in terms of handling and presenting the data, both in expressions and dimensions. Let's go through some examples of these functions to enhance the analysis in our QlikView app.

The If function

Though sometimes neglected because of its high resource usage when compared to other methods (such as Set Analysis, which is covered in the next chapter), the If function has important uses when creating QlikView documents. Essentially, it is used when two or more different outputs should result from a single expression, depending on a condition that is evaluated to either be true or false.

In this section, we'll explain how it works and discuss a use case.

The syntax

As the first step, we should describe the syntax used by this function and the parameters it needs to work. If you've worked with Microsoft Excel previously, then it's very likely you...

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