March 2018
Beginner to intermediate
514 pages
13h 11m
English
book
Mastering Qlik Sense
by Ralf Becher, Karl Pover, Jason Michaelides, Dilyana Ivanova, David Alcobero, Martin Mahler, Juan Ignacio Vitantonio
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Advanced Scripting
As we described in previous chapters, Qlik Sense makes it easy to manipulate and load data from different sources through a visual interface called Data Manager. Nevertheless, Qlik Sense comes with a very powerful scripting language that is shared with its father, QlikView, mostly in its totality and making these tools unique in the market.
Qlik Sense inherited most of the script elements from QlikView. Most of the functions found in QlikView can still be used in Qlik Sense. Other new functions, such as declare and derive, were introduced with Qlik Sense and are not available in QlikView. These two functions are described in Chapter 7, Best Practices for Loading Data in Qlik Sense, so I recommend you refer to them after ...
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