The While clause is an extremely powerful feature that you probably won’t use frequently, but when you do it’s a god-send. Note that this is a part of the Do..Loop scripting convention. Th...
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63 – Concatenated Keys
What do you do when you need to associate multiple fields between two tables? Qlik creates a synthetic key and everyone says that’s bad! First it’s good to understand what a synthetic key ...
64 – Functional Date Formatting
I’ve spent a lot of time over the years troubleshooting issues that resulted in it being because of the date format. After a while I started to make a habit of always using dates in a numerical ...
65 – Changing Column Width
I’ve heard a few people mention that you can’t change the column width within a table. This is definitely possible! If you haven’t stumbled on the solution yet, take a look below: I ...
66 – Advanced Search in Set Analysis
Set Analysis is extremely powerful, however it can seem a bit overwhelming at times. One thing I felt helped we further understand the mechanics is recognizing what will work within a filter search, w...
67 – Create a Codebase
One of the reasons I started doing this blog was to have a place to store my random Qlik info. But even before this, over the years I have collected a number of code snippets that I can refer to whene...
68 – When to Upgrade
With Qlik Sense having 5 releases a year, it can quickly become overwhelming staying up to date on the latest release. And even then, should you even be on the latest and greatest? Here is what I reco...
69 – Mixed Granularity
There will always be situations where the data you get isn’t at the same granularity as the other. The benefit of Qlik is you can leverage the associative model to account for these scenarios. S...
70 – Pick Match
One of the most resource intensive functions in a chart is the If statement. In a lot of scenarios, what you can do is leverage the combination of Pick and Match to replicate the functionality while i...
71 – Copy Paste
There’s nothing worse than waiting for a long reload to find out you made a typo. One thing I have made a habit of is copy and pasting script items: table names, field names, variables, etc̷...