ChartMaker Pro

Design your beautiful charts within seconds

Christof Schwarz
Solution Architect D/A/CH

06-Oct-2013
V2.0
Inspiration for ChartMaker
QlikView 11s chart capabilities are great, you just need
patience to get there (see demo.qlikview.com)

But what if you dont have that time and want to proceed
to your chart with a few mouse clicks?

So try this .

Where to find ChartMaker?

http://community.qlikview.com/docs/DOC-4971
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Impress your client

1. Data Explore Mode: Instant insights on the data model
2. Repository Mode: Build a repository on the fly or use a repository
(dimensions, expressions)
3. Change color palettes and simply map colors to dimension values
4. Heat coloring
5. Waterfall bar charts
6. Automatic date handling e.g. year -1 comparision
7. Most functions available also in Ajax Client


Working With ChartMaker
Extract
Create a QV App with data (simple 1-tier data pulling is enough)
Attach
Attach ChartMaker to your datamart App
Impress
Quickly draw first charts
Impress your client
Hard-
code
Eventually hardcode them
Mount
Mount charts into original app
Complete settings and finalize layout
Working With ChartMaker
Extract
Create a QV App with data (simple 1-tier data pulling is enough)
Attach
Attach ChartMaker to your datamart App
Impress
Quickly draw first charts
Impress your client
Hard-
code
Eventually hardcode them
Mount
Mount charts into original app
Complete settings and finalize layout
There is help
everywhere
Setting up ChartMaker

QVW to be
binary-loaded
There is help
everywhere
There is help
everywhere
There is help
everywhere
There is help
everywhere
Reset C.M.
Whats happening at Reload of ChartMaker
ChartMaker reads the source QVW in binary
mode (inheriting the data)

CharMaker reads the XML footer of the
source QVW to learn about the fields, tables,
and tags

ChartMaker adds some ##... fields and
tables for its own purpose
Elements on main page Data Explore Mode

Tables from source
QVW
Field type filter
Fields in that table
Field contents filter
Field preview
Elements on main page Repository Mode

Change between
modes
Expressions in the
repository
Dimensions in the
repository
Export repository if
you make changes
Dimension preview
Adding dims to repository

1) Add field in Data
Explore Mode
2) Add selected dim
to repository
3) Change to
Repository mode
4) New dimension
added to repository
5) If no longer needed, delete a
dim from repository
Working With ChartMaker
Extract
Create a QV App with data (simple 1-tier data pulling is enough)
Attach
Attach ChartMaker to your datamart App
Impress
Draw your charts
Impress your client
Hard-
code
Eventually hardcode them
Mount
Mount charts into original app
Complete settings and finalize layout
Exercise 1/5: Sales per Country
Sales per Country
Highlight 2 countries USA and Brazil in different colors.

Learn:
- Add dimensions and expressions
- Basic navigation (clear, <, >, upd)
- Use of palettes
- Mapping single values to colors
- Set axis format
Exercise 2/5: Waterfall and Heatmap
Waterfall Chart: Sales per Category
Heatmap: By the number of orders
Learn:
- Waterfall diagram
- Quick heat-coloring
- All heatmap settings
- Sort options
Exercise 3/5: Pivot OrderItems per Country

Learn:
- Table view mode
- Date functions
- Simple record counter
Exercise 4/5: #Orders Per Quarter

Learn:
- When is a date chart available
- Instant switching with cyclic group
- Accumulation
Exercise 5/5: #Orders Per Week (incl. Prev. Year)
Have a calendar built by load script (automatically)
Get more functionality on date dimensions
Learn:
- New calendar added by script
- Time Resolution
- Previous year and average lines
Working With ChartMaker
Extract
Create a QV App with data (simple 1-tier data pulling is enough)
Attach
Attach ChartMaker to your datamart App
Impress
Quickly draw first charts
Impress your client
Hard-
code
Eventually hardcode them (Desktop Client or IE Plugin only)
Mount
Mount charts into original app
Complete settings and finalize layout
Working With ChartMaker
Extract
Create a QV App with data (simple 1-tier data pulling is enough)
Attach
Attach ChartMaker to your datamart App
Impress
Quickly draw first charts
Impress your client
Hard-
code
Eventually hardcode them (Desktop Client or IE Plugin only)
Mount
Mount charts into original app
Complete settings and finalize layout
Limitations
1. ChartMaker is free but without maintenance or release
commitment
2. It will never be a full replacement of the chart properties dialog of
the Desktop Client
3. Requires Macros for some functionalities.



Thank you for joining this webinar

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