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Qlikview Unlocked

You're reading from  Qlikview Unlocked

Product type Book
Published in Nov 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785285127
Pages 196 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (16) Chapters

QlikView Unlocked
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Behind Every Successful Project Is a Plan Building the Correct Environment Are You Sitting Comfortably? Be More Productive It's All About Understanding the Data The Right Data Model Pays Dividends Make It Easy on Yourself – Some QlikView Tips and Tricks Improving Chart Performance and Usability To Deployment and Beyond Hidden Image List
Index

A few coding tips


There are many ways to improve things in QlikView. Some are techniques, and some are just useful things to know or do. Here are a few of our favorite ones.

Keep the coding style constant

As you'll see in Chapter 7, Improving Chart Performance and Usability, there's actually more to this than just being a tidy developer. So, always code your function names in the same way—it doesn't matter which style you use (unless you have installation standards that require a particular style). For example, you could use MonthStart(), monthstart(), or MONTHSTART(). They're all equally valid, but for consistency, choose one and stick to it.

Use MUST_INCLUDE rather than INCLUDE

This feature wasn't documented at all until quite a late service release of v11.2, but it's very useful. If you use INCLUDE and the file you're trying to include can't be found, QlikView will silently ignore it. The consequences of this are unpredictable, ranging from strange behavior to an outright script failure....

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