Straight Tables and Pivot Tables in QlikView

Last updated on Oct 25 2021
Harshal Shah

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Straight Tables and Pivot Tables in QlikView

Straight Tables are most widely used sheet object to display data in QlikView. They are very simple yet powerful with features like column rearrangement, sorting and coloring the background etc.

Input Data

Let us consider the following input data, which represents the sales figure of different product lines and product categories.

Product_Line,Product_category,Value

Sporting Goods,Outdoor Recreation,5642

Food, Beverages & Tobacco,2514

Apparel & Accessories,Clothing,2365

Apparel & Accessories,Costumes & Accessories,4487

Sporting Goods,Athletics,812

Health & Beauty,Personal Care,6912

Arts & Entertainment,Hobbies & Creative Arts,5201

Arts & Entertainment,Paintings,8451

Arts & Entertainment,Musical Instruments,1245

Hardware,Tool Accessories,456

Home & Garden,Bathroom Accessories,241

Food,Drinks,1247

Home & Garden,Lawn & Garden,5462

Office Supplies,Presentation Supplies,577

Hardware,Blocks,548

Baby & Toddler,Diapering,1247

Baby & Toddler,Toys,257

Home & Garden,Pipes,1241

Office Supplies,Display Board,2177

Load Script

The above data is loaded to the QlikView memory by using the script editor. Open the Script editor from the File menu or press Control+E. Choose the “Table Files” option from the “Data from Files” tab and browse for the file containing the above data. The following screen appears.

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Click “OK” and press “Control+R” to load the data into the QlikView’s memory

Create Table Box

Next, we create a new sheet Object of type Table Box. We follow the menu as shown below.

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Select the Columns

QlikView prompts for the columns to be chosen which will be displayed in the final Table Box. We choose all the columns and use the Promote or Demote option to set the order of the columns.

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Select Display Style

Next, we choose the style tab to give specific background colors to the display data. The current style option lists many pre-built styles. We choose Pyjama Red with Stripes every two rows.

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Column Re-ordering

We can reorder the positions of the columns by pressing and holding the mouse button at the column headers and then dragging it to the desired position.

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 QlikView – Pivot Tables

Pivot Tables are widely used in data analysis to present sum of values across many dimensions available in the data. QlikView’s Chart option has the feature to create a Pivot Table by choosing the appropriate chart type.

Input Data

Let us consider the following input data, which represents the sales figure of different product lines and product categories.

Product_Line,Product_category,Value

Sporting Goods,Outdoor Recreation,5642

Food, Beverages & Tobacco,2514

Apparel & Accessories,Clothing,2365

Apparel & Accessories,Costumes & Accessories,4487

Sporting Goods,Athletics,812

Health & Beauty,Personal Care,6912

Arts & Entertainment,Hobbies & Creative Arts,5201

Arts & Entertainment,Paintings,8451

Arts & Entertainment,Musical Instruments,1245

Hardware,Tool Accessories,456

Home & Garden,Bathroom Accessories,241

Food,Drinks,1247

Home & Garden,Lawn & Garden,5462

Office Supplies,Presentation Supplies,577

Hardware,Blocks,548

Baby & Toddler,Diapering,1247
Baby & Toddler,Toys,257

Home & Garden,Pipes,1241

Office Supplies,Display Board,2177

Load Script

The above data is loaded to the QlikView’s memory by using the script editor. Open the Script editor from the File menu or press Control+E. Choose the “Table Files”

option from the “Data from Files” tab and browse for the file containing the above data. The following screen appears.

Click “OK” and press “Control+R” to load the data into QlikView’s memory.

Select Chart Type

Next, we use the chart wizard to select the Pivot Table option. Click Next.

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Select Chart Dimension

In the next screen, we choose Product_Line as the first dimension for the chart.

image7 8  Select Chart Expression

The next screen prompts us for selecting the chart expression where we choose the sum of value.

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Select the Chart Format

On clicking next, we get the screen to choose chart format in which we select Pyjama Green as the style and the default mode.

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Pivot Chart Data

Completing the above steps gives us the final chart as below.

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