Could you be a Qlik contractor?
99% of us start in the same place, after leaving education we apply for jobs and go on the payroll. We work hard, we get promoted, we earn more money, […]
Category Archives: Best Practice
Qlik Sense Data Model and Field Naming
In QlikView development followed the 80/20 rule. 80% of the time was spent getting the data model right, once that was perfect the front end user interface (UI) came together […]
Should I link or Concatenate
Getting the right table design in Qlik is crucial to successfully delivering an application. Even more so if you’re developing on Qlik Sense and you want to fully embrace users […]
Qlik Sense Application Delete Button Warning
Updated – Resolution Below! Posts are few and far between for me these days. Simple fact is I’ve moved away from QlikView development and now am solely working with […]
Setting Up Security Rules In Qlik Sense QMC
If your familiar with QlikView and move to the new Qlik Sense tool you’ll see a lot of similarities. The script, expression writing are the same. The QMC is very […]
Scatter Plots are good
I was helping a customer recently when I was shown a Pie Chart they had developed in QlikSense showing product returns, they liked the chart although they asked how they […]
The Problem with Where Not Exists
Do you know what the problem is? I use Where Not Exists all the time, typically when I’m incremental loading. (a detailed video of how to do that can be […]
Fixing Set Analysis in Qlik
Set Analysis is a very powerful tool in Qlik, put simply it allows you to pre-define selections on an expression. Typically your first type of set analysis will be simple, such as […]
Think Before You Link
Qlik is all about the data, get that right and your visualisations will be effortless! I typically bring all my data together into a Star Schema and I’ve written a […]
User Controlled Charts in QlikView
Hello, Recently I’ve been blogging about where to store variables and why (I think) a data island is the best way forward. The original idea for a data island comes […]
