Chapter 6. Make It Easy on Yourself – Some QlikView Tips and Tricks

In this chapter, we will cover the following key topics:

  • A few coding tips
  • Surprising data sources
  • Include files
  • Change logs
  • Calculations and flags in the script
  • Previous() and Peek() functions
  • Preceding load on preceding load
  • Finding min and max
  • Autonumber
  • Reading from a spreadsheet

A few coding tips

There are many ways to improve things in QlikView. Some are techniques, and some are just useful things to know or do. Here are a few of our favorite ones.

Keep the coding style constant

As you'll see in Chapter 7, Improving Chart Performance and Usability, there's actually more to this than just being a tidy developer. So, always code your function names in the same way—it doesn't matter which ...

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