Monthly Archives: January 2010

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 #17: Simulating the $(include) command in QlikView macros

Within load-scripts in QlikView there is the useful “$(include)” command available for including files containing some script to be used within the load-script.Doing so it is easy to encapsulate and reuse some code used in several QlikView applications.So organizing your code in load-scripts is easy, you can use several tabs and the $(include) command, whereas [...]



A little tool for creating nested if-statements

Nested If-statements are sometimes necessary in QlikView- load-scripts, unfortunately.They are quite difficult to read and very tricky to create and especially to debug.In the last recent months I had a lot of projects where a tenfold nesting of if-statements was not uncommon.After struggling with these nested ifs for a while I decided to create a [...]



qlikblog.at is now published in English!

About four months ago I have created this blog for sharing my knowledge and ideas about business intelligence and especially QlikView.In the last weeks I have received so many mails! Thanks!But most of the mails I received were targeting one topic: “Why is your blog published in German” or “Could you please translate the article [...]