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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

Aligning and resizing sheet objects


When we look at the results so far, we will notice that it looks very unorganized (as seen in the following screenshot). The objects are all over the place and are not aligned with the background. Of course, this is not very convenient for the user, so let's see how we can solve it.

Selecting objects

To select a single object, simply click on its caption. To select multiple objects, activate all of them by either clicking and dragging around them with the mouse cursor ("lassoing"), or by clicking on their captions while keeping the Shift key pressed.

Moving objects

Objects (or a selected group of objects) can be moved by clicking on the caption bar and dragging them to the desired location. Objects without a caption (for example, the listboxes showing Year, Quarter, and Month that we created earlier) can be dragged by holding Alt and clicking and dragging anywhere on the object. This method also works for objects with a visible caption, and even for objects...

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