Chapter 5. Advanced Coding
In this chapter, we will cover:
- Extracting QlikView data to a Word report
- Printing reports to PDF using PDFCreator
- Creating a chart using a macro
- Using VBS functions in charts
Introduction
QlikView has a lot of great functions that enable us to manipulate data, make selections, interact with the layout, or export data to a file. These functions can be accessed from the Actions option of buttons, gauge charts, text objects, or line/arrow objects.
However, QlikView also has a rich API that allows us to use a macro language—either VBScript or JavaScript—to perform actions. In this chapter, we are going to explore using macros to perform some advanced tasks that are not available otherwise. We will also look at using VBScript to ...
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