QlikView Reference Manual.pdf

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Some examples of QlikView applications being used today are financial systems,
human resources administration, market analysis, customer support, project administration,
production control, stock inventories and purchasing. You can even mix the
different applications to gain entirely new information overviews.
1.1 About This Book
This Reference Manual consists of three books: Installation and Script; Layout,
Number Formats and Macros; and Charts. Book I contains four parts: Introduction,
Installation, General and Script. Book II consists of the parts Sheets and Sheet
Objects, Number Formats and Macros and Automation. Book III consists of the part
Charts, as well as of a Glossary and an Appendix.
In addition, we provide a separate Tutorial, guiding you step by step through the
main features of QlikView.
The Introduction part, which you are currently reading, contains general information
on the program and on our support services.
The Installation part shows how to install QlikView and other components needed to
run the program.
The General part shows how to start QlikView, introduces the QlikView menu bar
and toolbars, and describes how selections are made.
The Script part contains all the information you need to load data into QlikView. This
part explains the dialogs involved in the creation of scripts, and provides a detailed
syntax description. Access restriction is also handled here.
The interpretation and formatting of date, time and number formats is treated in a
separate part, Number Formats. Here you will find explanations of the number format
dialogs, as well as general information on how different formats are handled by
QlikView.
The Macros and Automation part provides a brief description of the Automation
interface, as well as of the use and creation of macros.
The Sheets and Sheet objects part provides information on how to create and modify
the layout. This part ends with a chapter on exporting and printing sheet objects.
Since there is a great number of different chart types, these are treated in a separate
part, Charts. Besides the variety of settings used for creating and modifying charts,
this part also provides detailed information on chart expressions.
The Glossary explains some of the terminology used in the manual.
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