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Julian Villafuerte
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Julian Villafuerte

Julian Villafuerte is a founding member of Evolution Consulting, a Mexican firm which provides QlikView consulting services throughout the Americas. Since 2010, he has helped several companies to define effective strategies for data management and business analysis. As a consultant, he has worked in application development, project management, pre-sales and training for many industries, including retail, manufacturing and insurance. In October, 2015, he published “Creating Stunning Dashboards with QlikView”, a practical handbook focused on developing useful and engaging analytical applications. He has a Master's degree in Information Technology Management and teaches at the Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico City. Recently, he started a blog called QlikFreak (https://qlikfreak.wordpress.com/), where he shares tips and tricks about data visualization, scripting and best practices.
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Opening and closing scripts


Chances are that most of your dashboards share some features such as variables, colors, and even some visual cues. To ensure that all the apps in the QlikView environment are consistent, and to save some valuable time, you can create standard text files to use them as opening and closing scripts. These files can collect shared functionality, such as:

  • Environmental and format variables

  • Connection strings

  • Frequently used variables such as vToday or vCurrentYear

  • Standard color variables (RGB codes)

  • Subroutines

  • Section access

  • Commonly used statements such as HidePrefix or NullAsValue

You can easily import these files in all your apps by going to Insert | Include Statement.

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Julian Villafuerte

Julian Villafuerte is a founding member of Evolution Consulting, a Mexican firm which provides QlikView consulting services throughout the Americas. Since 2010, he has helped several companies to define effective strategies for data management and business analysis. As a consultant, he has worked in application development, project management, pre-sales and training for many industries, including retail, manufacturing and insurance. In October, 2015, he published “Creating Stunning Dashboards with QlikView”, a practical handbook focused on developing useful and engaging analytical applications. He has a Master's degree in Information Technology Management and teaches at the Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico City. Recently, he started a blog called QlikFreak (https://qlikfreak.wordpress.com/), where he shares tips and tricks about data visualization, scripting and best practices.
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