Rapid Analytic App Platform

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With Business Discovery, there are no “end” users. Instead, every user is the start of something, a node in the creation of information that is no longer highly centralized and radial. A rapid analytic app platform helps business users contribute to the creation of analysis quickly and simply without requiring extensive ongoing involvement from IT (see Figure 4).

QlikView 11 includes new and improved capabilities that meet the needs of IT professionals and third-party software developers — as well as the needs of business users who want to create their own analytic apps. QlikView 11 offers improvements in extensibility and application development.

 

Figure 4: App development in QlikView is collaborative and iterative

 

 

EXTENSIBILITY

QlikView 11 makes it easier for developers to extend the platform.

Document Extensions Provide a Way to Execute Custom Code

With the Ajax browser client, business users gain a more streamlined, effortless experience when working with data from external analytic systems. They can interact with data returned from other analytic systems directly within QlikView — without having to access the external system in a separate, disconnected mode. Like the extension objects we introduced in QlikView 10, document extensions are reusable. Once created, they can be reused in multiple QlikView documents.

Document extensions provide a way to execute custom code and interact with the QlikView Ajax/JavaScript API (application programming interface). For example, a developer might want to track usage patterns of a QlikView document with a document extension that interfaces with Google Analytic s— without rendering a Google Analytics chart. Or, the developer may want to run code not tied to a specific object, or may want to customize the toolbar or tab row.

QlikView Workbench Extension Object Template Speeds up Development

Developers can use QlikView Workbench to create QlikView extension objects in Microsoft Visual Studio® more quickly and easily than ever before. The new Visual Studio project template includes all the files needed to build a working QlikView extension object and publish it to QlikView Server. It also includes:

 

• Guidance on how to customize QlikView extension objects
  
  
• A user interface for creating a custom property pane for extension objects
  
  
• The ability to test extensions from within Visual Studio.
  
  

 

IMPROVED APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT

QlikView 11 delivers new and improved capabilities to make it easier for developers and business users to create QlikView applications.

Version Control Integration Streamlines Development

When managing large QlikView deployments, developers and administrators can improve the efficiency of application development by accessing and utilizing a central source control system, such as Microsoft Team Foundation Server, directly from within QlikView Desktop. Using a new option in the File menu, QlikView developers connect a QlikView document to a source control system. The source control system then provides change tracking and rollback, and can merge changes made by multiple developers. Each element of the QlikView document — such as script, properties, and user interface object definitions — is stored separately and can have changes tracked separately.

 

Improved Ajax Dialog Boxes Make It Easier to Create QlikView Objects

Creating QlikView objects (e.g., charts, graphs, and list boxes) in the Ajax browser client is easier than ever before, especially for non-technical users. QlikView developers and business users can now create regular or extension objects — all of which can be shared as collaboration objects — using improved dialog boxes, drag and drop, and visual assembly. QlikView presents the most frequently-used menu items at the highest level, with others nested below.

Granular Chart Dimension Control Simplifies Presentation of Data in Charts

Granular chart dimension control enables developers to more easily create meaningful comparisons among dimensions in a chart. Developers can more easily display the lowest values, first values, top values, etc., in a single chart. This required the use of macros and advanced aggregation functions in previous releases of QlikView.

Metadata Enhancements for Developers Help Improve the Business User Experience

When creating or modifying QlikView applications, developers can annotate dimensions and expressions within each chart. This gives the business user an explanation of the content and context of the chart elements. For example, when users hover over the X axis in a chart, they can see the associated dimension comments and when they hover over the Y axis they can see comments associated with expressions. This new capability expands upon the comments and tags introduced in QlikView 10.

Improved Layout Options Make It Easier to Create QlikView Apps

QlikView 11 has several improvements that make it easier for developers and business users to create QlikView apps

• Container object enhancements make better use of screen real estate. Container objects give QlikView designers a means of presenting multiple perspectives on a set of facts in a single, space-saving object. In QlikView 11, designers can now create QlikView user interfaces that are more efficient and user friendly by placing multiple objects on a single tab, snapped together in a grid. Users gain consolidated viewing context.
   
  
• Conditional enabling of dimensions and expressions improves the user experience. Developers can now manipulate QlikView objects to provide refined context based on a user’s action, selections, or role, or the underlying data conditions. Developers can specify conditions that control when a dimension or expression is used on a chart, or when a table is used, based on any criteria.
  
  
• Improved tab navigation makes it easier to find QlikView content. In the Ajax client, we’ve improved the way users navigate from one sheet (tab) to another within a QlikView document. Users can now scroll through tabs to find the sheet they want, or select a sheet from a drop down menu. They can also add new sheets more easily.

 

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