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Christopher Ilacqua
Christopher Ilacqua
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Christopher Ilacqua

Dr. Christopher Ilacqua is the research director of product validation at Qlik®. He has been working with leading customers and partners in the US for more than 3 years garnering feedback on Qlik Sense. Chris has over 25 years of experience in the field of planning and business intelligence, and he has established himself as a leading expert by advising, designing, and implementing hundreds of planning and business intelligence applications. He has a doctorate in business administration, a master's degree in business administration in accounting, and a bachelor's degree in marketing. His research interests focus on big data, data governance, mobile BI, SaaS, business collaboration, and cloud-based solutions. Additionally, Chris serves as an adjunct professor at New England College of Business, where he teaches graduate students strategic leadership, marketing, operations management, and MIS.
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Henric Cronström
Henric Cronström
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Henric Cronström

Dr. Henric Cronström is vice president product and technical product advocate at Qlik, where he has worked for most of the time since the company was founded. For the first few years in Qlik's history, he was the product manager for QlikView, and then he moved into solution implementation and training. After many years in the field, including a role as a manager for the technical staff in QlikTech, Germany, he returned to Sweden as deputy manager for the development organization. In his current role, his main task is the communication of technical products on blogs, in the press, and directly with large accounts. Henric has a doctorate in elementary particle physics from Lund University.
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James Richardson

James Richardson is business analytics strategist at Qlik®. Prior to joining Qlik,
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The data model viewer


The script defines the data model, but if you want to view it graphically, you should use data model viewer. This is opened from the toolbar menu, as shown in the following screenshot:

Clicking on the icon to the right in the menu will open Data model viewer in a new tab. Once this is open, you can visually see what the data model looks like. If you have more than one table, they should be linked by the key fields and should look something similar to the following screenshot:

The Data model viewer is an excellent tool to get an overview of the data model. It is also a very good debugging tool in the application development process.

Check whether the data model looks the way you want it to and make sure that you have no circular references. Circular references will be marked with red links and synthetic keys will be named $Syn:

Using preview mode

The Data model viewer option has a useful additional feature, preview mode. This mode allows you to preview both the data and...

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Christopher Ilacqua

Dr. Christopher Ilacqua is the research director of product validation at Qlik®. He has been working with leading customers and partners in the US for more than 3 years garnering feedback on Qlik Sense. Chris has over 25 years of experience in the field of planning and business intelligence, and he has established himself as a leading expert by advising, designing, and implementing hundreds of planning and business intelligence applications. He has a doctorate in business administration, a master's degree in business administration in accounting, and a bachelor's degree in marketing. His research interests focus on big data, data governance, mobile BI, SaaS, business collaboration, and cloud-based solutions. Additionally, Chris serves as an adjunct professor at New England College of Business, where he teaches graduate students strategic leadership, marketing, operations management, and MIS.
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Henric Cronström

Dr. Henric Cronström is vice president product and technical product advocate at Qlik, where he has worked for most of the time since the company was founded. For the first few years in Qlik's history, he was the product manager for QlikView, and then he moved into solution implementation and training. After many years in the field, including a role as a manager for the technical staff in QlikTech, Germany, he returned to Sweden as deputy manager for the development organization. In his current role, his main task is the communication of technical products on blogs, in the press, and directly with large accounts. Henric has a doctorate in elementary particle physics from Lund University.
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James Richardson

James Richardson is business analytics strategist at Qlik®. Prior to joining Qlik,
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