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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
Meet QlikView Seeing is Believing Data Sources Data Modeling Styling Up Building Dashboards Scripting Data Modeling Best Practices Basic Data Transformation Advanced Expressions Set Analysis and Point In Time Reporting Advanced Data Transformation More on Visual Design and User Experience Security Index

Merging forces


On their own, the Order By statement and the Peek function are already powerful. Now, imagine what happens when we combine both of these tools to enhance our input data. In this section, we will use both of these functions to add a new calculated field to our Employment table (the one we integrated to our data model in Chapter 8, Data Modeling Best Practices).

A refresher

The Employment table provides information regarding the monthly number of employees per airline. The total number is split between part and full time employees, and it also shows the total FTEs (Full Time Equivalent).

The objective

The executives of HighCloud Airlines have asked the QlikView team to create a report that shows the monthly change in number of employees in a line chart to discover and analyze peaks in the employment behavior of each airline.

Getting it done

First, how do we find the total change in number of employees for this month compared to the last? Well, we take the number of employees in the...

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