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QlikView 3 was a giant leap forward. More and more people started developing applications with QlikView and it became much easier to convince prospects and partners to join us on our journey. As a result we faced more and more demands from the real world: tools with which you can customize a document, tools for security, tools to save and re-use a selection, client/server, etc. Much of this didn’t exist in QlikView 3.
So, for QlikView 4 we started to develop features based heavily on customer requirements.
We had already experimented a little with macros in QlikView 3 but in QlikView 4 we did it properly. We introduced the first color coding in pivot tables so that our customers could mark negative numbers red. We made it possible to activate several objects and align them. We made it possible to load Excel files. We introduced control structures such as For-Next loops in the script language. We introduced Section Access to address security demands. We introduced bookmarks. We introduced a proper NULL value handling and we introduced the text object, so that customers could show also static information.
We also had a new logo and a new icon.
But there are two features that, more than any others should be noted as the principal features in QlikView 4:
As I think back on it, it was really with QlikView 4 that we started our journey toward being an enterprise software product.
Further reading on the Qlik history:
A Historical Odyssey: QlikView 3
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