Axis Insights Blog

Occasionally an issue will come up in an application where you’ll want to use an action to automate making field selections. This makes it easier for a user to select …

There are numerous keyboard shortcuts that make developing QlikView Applications even faster and easier. Here are some that I have found to be useful: Ctrl+Shift+S – Shows all objects/tabs in …

Getting data into transactional systems today is a relatively easy and straight-forward process. Most systems have reasonably user-friendly interfaces that support efficient and practical information input. Users can enter information …

In building applications, a field is often encountered that does not natually sort in the desired order, alphabetically or numerically. The most frequent occurrence of this I have seen is …

QlikView defines Persistent Colors as: Checking this option locks the color map so that each value has a color permanently assigned to it. There are two advantages to enabling this …

In the appendix of Stephen Few’s book Show Me the Numbers, he provides the color palette he uses throughout the book. It is broken up into three categories, which he …

I'm a big fan of the NYT Graphics Department. They produce a lot of great visualization work and occasionally document their process on the chartsnthings blog. Recently they published a graphic …

The purpose of this post is to provide some permanent notes we can refer to about hierarchies in general and more specifically about the Hierarchy() and HierarchyBelongsTo() loads in QlikView …