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Mag. Stefan WALTHER
QlikView Consultant and managing director of the IT-company bluestep.com in Vienna/Austria.
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Nice Read #1: Gartner’s Magic Quadrants 2009/2010 and Qlikview
Gilles from www.quickqlearqool.nl has written a nice review of the new Gartner’s Magic Quadrant 2010:The most interesting fact in Gartner’s analysis is that QlikTech/QlikView is not a visionary anymore!Some quotes from Gilles article:THERE ARE NO VISIONAIRIES ANYMORE!! Even Qlikview isn’t a visionary anymore.… the explanation for Qlikview not being part of the visionaries anymore is [...]
QlikTip #21: Running QlikView 8.5 and QlikView 9 side by side
Just a very short (very, very short) tip today.I was asked how one could run QlikView 8.5 and QlikView 9 one one system …That’s absolutely no problem.During the installation of QlikView 9 Desktop (when having QlikView 8.5 already installed) just choose another installation path as suggested (e.g. C:\Program Files\QlikView_9 instead of C:\Program Files\QlikView) and these [...]
QlikTip #20: Why we do not need a SELECT-CASE/Switch-Case in QlikView load-statements …
I have recently received the question why there is no SELECT-CASE or SWITCH statement available in QlikView within load-statements.Sure, if you are looking into the reference-manual or into the help file, you’ll find the SWITCH-CASE-statement, but this is a control statement so it cannot be used within a load-statement, e.g. this is possibleswitch I [...]
QlikTip #19: Suppressing Macro-Security (Module Security) Dialog on QlikView-Server/QlikView-Documents
When opening documents with macros the end-user will be shown a dialog to define the desired macro-security/module security (in the QlikView Windows Client or the QlikView IE Plugin):But what, If you do not want that the end-user has to option to select the desired macro security/module security?You can (e.g. as a system-administrator) globally enable the [...]
QlikTip # 18: A workaround for passing parameters to QlikView-macros
When calling macros from the user interface you cannot pass a parameter to the function called in QlikView.This behavior is quite annoying …!But the workaround explained here will show you a possibility how you can “simulate” passing parameters to macro-functions:The idea behind is quite simple. In QlikView 9 we have now actions which can be [...]
QlikTip #1: Transferring Current Selections to Excel-Export (translated)
While driving this blog only in German the most viewed article was “QlikTip #1 – Export the current celections to Excel”.So this will also be the first article translated to English.(The original German article can be found at http://www.qlikblog.at/9/tip-statusboxauswahlstatus-in-excel-export-integrieren/)The functionality in QlikView that any object-content can be easily exported to Excel is very practical and [...]
QlikTip #22: Restarting/Stopping/Starting services in QlikView 9
Posted in QV Server/Publisher, QlikTips, QlikView 9, SysAdmin/Installation