A Radio Program About Qlikview on the BBC? – Not Quite, But Still Very Relevant
Obviously a regular BBC radio show about Qlikview is a little ways off yet but in the meantime there is ‘More or Less: Behind the Stats’ on BBC Radio 4 (and also Podcasts via iTunes); a thoroughly entertaining regular series of 30min programs that looks at something all Qlikview Developers should be interested in: the … Read more
Infinite Qlikview Icons Expansion Pack
For as long as I can remember (within my Qlikview career at least) there have been the same set of icons built-in to Qlikview, personally I’ve not really used them as I find them a bit limited and I usually prefer to show movements etc through colour highlights of the value in question not an added column … Read more
Different Ways to Interact & Display Information With Bar Charts & Tables
Something of an ambiguous title for this post but it’s quite a nebulous ‘solution’ to a problem that isn’t really a problem!? DOWNLOAD THE EXAMPLE .QVW – It will make understanding what’s been done here so much easier – https://docs.google.com/open?id=0BxloTMUod74tOHFsZC1CMlNRdnVjaHRzRkk4dlFlZw. ***Firstly; I have to hold my hands up and say that I’ve just spotted identical … Read more
2012 Gartner Magic Quadrant Released (aka Smuggled)
It’s that time of year again; the Gartner Magic BI Quadrant is out. Like children expectantly awaiting Christmas the BI vendors await its publication; where will they be, will they be up, down, left or right, will they have been dropped altogether!!! Personally I don’t give this piece of ‘Magic’ (am I missing the ‘Magic’; … Read more
Useful Alternate Sort Method for Listboxes
It’s a Friday so how about a simple but really useful post about how to make certain listboxes that little but more user friendly. Basically the aim here is to get around the problem you sometimes encounter when you have a long list of values that you want to sort say alphbetically but within the … Read more
GapMinder.org Style Replication of UN Data a la Mr Hans Rosling
After seeing Hans Rosling give his often blogged about TED Talk a few years ago (http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen.html) I thought my usual thought upon seeing such things; I can do that in Qlikview. I strongly recommend anyone in Pre-Sales watches the video as it really shows how to engage your audience with you and the data by … Read more
Good Post From Stephen Redmond at Cap Ventis
I’ve just come across a good post by Stephen Redmond on his blog Qlik Tips that covers the importance of choosing the right background for your dashbaord: http://qliktips.blogspot.com/2011/12/right-background.html And I promise I didn’t write the comment bemoaning the lack of Qlikview visuals posts! The only point I’d add is that whilst white backgrounds are on the … Read more
QV Design – a Design Blog About Qlikview (Obviously)
Welcome to QV Design; a new blog more focused on driving design & layout enhancements of Qlikview; though not to the exclusion of the architecture and scripting elements that we all know and love. Over the coming months I have around 50 or so posts I’ll be looking to present including several new chart types, layout princiapals, … Read more
