The QlikView Unlocked project

In order to put some of the explanations into context, we based the book loosely around a project, but this is only for the sake of consistency in the examples. We will not give you a step-by-step guide to learning QlikView, which is what you might find in some teach yourself books, instead we will focus on insights that will give you an edge and show you things that you probably didn't realize could be done with QlikView. For this, we created a project at Borchester Models, a fictitious chain of model shops. Their business is the sale of unusual, short-run plastic aircraft kits. The chain has three shops in different towns in Borsetshire, the Borchester shop being the head office.

They have a website that sells a few models online, but most sales are through their point of sale system that runs in all three shops. We'll use some of the situations that might be encountered in this simple QlikView implementation for the examples in this book.