Author Archives: Stefan Walther

Some thoughts about password strength

By Stefan Walther 1 Comment
Posted in Nice Read

I wish you all a good start into a successfull and happy year 2012. How do you choose your most secure passwords? I just have to share this, this is brilliant: Source: xkcd.com/936/

Set Analysis Wizard for QlikView

By Stefan Walther 24 Comments
Posted in Creating Applications, QlikView-Online-Tools

The Set Analysis Wizard for QlikView is a wizard which automatically creates set analysis expressions based on a WYSIWIG user interface.

QlikTip #36: Loading a mapping table directly from a QVD file (QV10 SR2+)

By Stefan Walther 2 Comments
Posted in Development /QV Developer, Load Scripts, QlikTips, QlikView 10

In the past it was not possible to load a mapping table directly from a QVD file. We had to use some workarounds to break the optimized load like: Mapping_Map: Mapping LOAD Field1, Field2 FROM qvdFile.qvd (qvd) WHERE 1=1; or Mappping_Map: Mapping LOAD Field1, Field2, 1 as Field_temp FROM qvdFile.qvd (qvd); DROP FIELD Field_temp FROM [...]

QlikTip #35: Some hints on working with the QlikView Designer (Part 2 – Moving/Copying Objects)

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Posted in Creating Applications, Design & Layout, QlikTips

This is the second part of the series of articles summarizing some hints for working with the QlikView Designer. In this part I’ll show you what you need to know about “Moving/Copying objects” in QlikView. Part 1: Using the design mode of QlikView Part 2: Moving/Copying objects (this article) Part 3: Linking objects Part 4: [...]

QlikTip #34: Some hints on working with the QlikView Designer (Part 1 – QlikView Designer)

By Stefan Walther 6 Comments
Posted in Creating Applications, Design & Layout, QlikTips

A colleague asked me today to promote the two blog-posts where the QV10 feature of moving objects while pressing the ALT-key is explained (see qlikboard.com and guerillabi.com). I thought instead of just posting these two links I could deliver more value by starting a series of articles which cover most of the tipps & hints [...]

QlikTips #33: Google Maps are not working anymore in QlikView 10 SR2 ???

By Stefan Walther 8 Comments
Posted in Charts, Design & Layout, Development /QV Developer, Integration, QlikTips

This week I have received some eMails and read some posts that Google maps do not work anymore after upgrading to QV 10 SR2. This QlikTips shows how to overcome these troubles ...

News regarding QlikView 10.0 SR2

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Posted in QlikView News

QlikView 10.0 SR2 has been published recently. This article contains a summary of the most important changes. QlikView for iPad / Ajax Touch Client The SR2 contains the new rendering engine optimized for touch feeling with the iPad client. Have a look a the following articles/viedos: Introducing QlikView on iPad A “marketing” video in QlikView [...]