Getting Data in QlikView and Creating Your First App

Welcome to the second chapter of this book! In the previous chapter, we learned how QlikView works and got an idea of its potential. In this chapter, we will look at how to set up data by importing it from Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, and use that data to create an app. After that, we will look at some functions and tools in QlikView. We will also learn how to make our app interactive for our users. 

This chapter covers the following topics:

• Setting up the structure
• Creating an app
• Importing data from Excel
• Understanding facts and dimensions
• Understanding list boxes
• Creating new tabs