This recipe demonstrates QlikView options to make your document “touchy”, that is, provide useful feedback when you poke something with the mouse wondering “What’s this?”

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This example accompanies the blog post “QDG Guru Day Inspiration“.  The example demonstrates using color encoding in a scatter chart to display two inter related dimensional series.

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This example shows how the Aggr() function can be used to narrow or widen selections from a Calculated Dimension.

More on this topic can be found in the blog post  “Scoping Selections with Aggr“.

There may be unusual cases where you want to the user to make multiple selections before calculating charts(s).

This example demonstrates how you can collect proposed selections in an alternate state and defer applying those selections to charts until  the user presses “Apply”.

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This example demonstrates using the Conditional Show property to show additional Charts and Text Objects after selecting to a single item.

Revision 2 of this recipe demonstrates showing additional charts after clicking in a bar chart.

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This recipe provides examples of using a Pivot Table to display data in a grid. The second dimension is dragged to the horizontal creating a cross table.

The Pivot Table provides more options than a Grid chart for representation.

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This example demonstrates how to create hover text in Straight and Pivot Table cells.

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This example demonstrates various techniques to emphasize selected data while still keeping all data in view.

More information can be found in the blog post “Focus not Filter” .

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This example demonstrates a technique for improving the performance of a large document when a chart needs to choose one of several expressions based on user selected options.

Complete explanation can be found in this post “How to Choose an Expression“.

Chart properties provide options to suppress the display or calculation of a column.

In this tutorial we’ll explore the difference between those two options and look at some use cases.

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Annotations are comments or labels placed in a chart to provide additional meaning or interpretation of chart data. Text is placed on a data point or connected visually to the point.

This tutorial will demonstrate techniques for annotating data points in Qlikview Charts.

A “Calendar Chart” that displays events and metrics in the familiar Month/Weekday page format. The chart is just a cleverly formatted pivot table.

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The Qlikview document Alert feature can be used to send text emails with KPIs like “daily numbers” after document reload.

This example shows how to configure an alert and craft an alert text message.

Alerts may not be used to email graphical charts or attachments. Only text may be sent.

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How to emphasize specific lines in a line chart. We’ll look at changing line widths, fading colors and hiding lines.

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Using a chart expression to remove high and low outlying values from each month before calculating the average Sales. If there are only two or less days in the month, the outliers are not removed.

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This example conditionally displays a warning message in the chart when specific values are present in the data.

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This example demonstrates several alternatives for controlling True/False switches in a qvw.

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This example demonstrates using an Input Box to allow the user to specify date ranges for data selection.

The Constraint property is utilized to demonstrate validating user input.

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Example of a Control (Shewhart ) Chart.

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Color shading or gradients can be used to indicate the relative weight of values in text charts. This can be useful to draw attention to more important values in a dense text chart.

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