Extending and Integrating QlikView was presented by Joe Bickley during the QlikVIew in Depth Track at the Business Dioscovery London Event on 22nd November 2011

1. QlikView in Depth:
Extending and Integrating QlikView
Joe Bickley

2. Why extend QlikView?
Visualisation Integration
Functionality

3. Visualisation of data must address the
business discovery needs of the users

4. QlikView Developers can help business
users by clearly presenting key
information

5. Built in Visualisation Capabilities
• Spark lines
• Trellis charts
• Live chart backgrounds
• Mekko Charts
• Mini-charts in List Boxes

6. Perfecting the layout

7. Pushing built in capabilities to the limit

8. How can QlikView be extended
• QlikView 10 Introduced Extension Objects
– Enables custom visualizations/user interface components within
QlikView
– Based on standard web technologies
– Write once, package and deploy anywhere
– No different to using standard QlikView objects
– Take advantage of QlikView associative and aggregation engine
– No additional end user training required
• QlikView 11 Introduces Document Extensions
– Extensions that can change document wide QlikView behaviour

9. How can QlikView be Extended

10. Demonstration

11. CRM.com/CustomerID=1234
Data

12. Building an Extension for QlikView
• Technology and Skills
– Make use of any browser based technology
– Javascript as a minimum
• People
– Web developers, not QlikView developers

13. Building an Extension for QlikView
• Reuse Existing Object and Content
– Online Libraries
 Google Charts – http://code.google.com/apis/chart/
 Fusion Charts - http://www.fusioncharts.com
– Community
 http://community.qlikview.com/community/integration-extensions

14. Building an Extension for QlikView
• Process to build
– QV11 Extension object builder for Visual Studio
– Create two text files that define information about the object and what
properties you would like the users to see when they use it
– Create a javascript file as the framework for the object
– Add the functionality you want using you chosen technology
– Build into zip file called a QAR

15. Building an Extension for QlikView
• Process to Deploy
– For developers only open the QAR on the developers PC
– Use webview when developing to add them to documents
– Migrate files to server with the QlikView documents
– Users consume objects

16. Questions

17. Meet the Presenters at Qbar in King George III

18. Feedback Forms
• Please find your feedback forms in
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