Using QlikView’s Report Editor - Page 3 - Qlik Community

Jennell_McIntire · ‎2013-09-06

The visualizations and charts in QlikView are dynamic and always changing based on the user’s selections and interactions with the data. That being said I rarely find the need to print the visualizations and take them with me because I know that the data may be refreshed thus changing the visualizations and charts. But sometimes there is a need for the user to be able to print a static report of what they see in QlikView to share with someone or refer to at a later time. QlikView’s Report Editor provides users with an easy way to capture the QlikView objects in a formatted report that can printed. Reports can be created by simply dragging objects from the user interface to the report sheet.


User Interface		Report sheet

Simply drag the object from the user interface and place them anywhere on the report. Objects can be moved and resized in the report and arranged as you see fit. When I need to add objects to the report that are not a part of the user interface such as an image for the cover sheet or a logo, I will add the object to a hidden sheet in QlikView and format it as I would like it to appear in the report. Then I can drag it to the report. There is also the ability to add an image, text object or current selection box directly from the Report Editor if you prefer. In either case, static reports that are nicely formatted can be created in QlikView for users who prefer to have a printout of their visual QlikView experience.

Check out this technical brief for step-by-step details of how the reports were added to the Asset Management demo using the Report Editor.

Jennell

vikasmahajan · ‎2013-09-16

Good Article..

Anonymous · ‎2014-01-03

like many others said, it is better not to mention QlikView "reporting" capabilities at all since QV reports has nothing in common with real reporting tools. We ended up getting NPrinting tool which allowed us to do at least something for end users who still need to work with static reports but it is not cheap. QlikView is a great product but it is quite deceiving to advertise reporting features since they are not usable for real world tasks.

ngulliver · ‎2014-01-06

Hi, Pablo.

You are correct. CIA reports and NPrinting are competitors to Publisher but are not like-for-like replacements. NPrinting and CIA focus on the report distribution whereas Publisher does more than that. Consequently, the products are priced accordingly.

However, NPrinting and CIA are available on QlikMarket so I assume there must be some endorsement of these products by QlikTech.

Report Inappropriate Content · ‎2014-01-17

I am having issues with the layout of QV report.My report is a straight table (long) but I cant fit it on the Report. Tried clip, fill and fill with aspect but nothing seems to work. Does nay of you faces this problem as solved successfully?

Report Inappropriate Content · ‎2014-01-19

Hi Sidd

if you have a long report , you need to add multiple page ( single page report not able to work ).

Paul

Report Inappropriate Content · ‎2014-02-26

How can I delete the black border ? The border not looks good.

Jennell_McIntire · ‎2014-02-26

Hi Frank,

The border is visible when editing the report so that you can easily size/move objects but they are not visible when you print/preview the report.

Jennell

Anonymous · ‎2014-03-10

is there any way to add objects to the report like link or any new object which is not present on dashboard layout already?

pablolabbe · ‎2014-03-10

You can do this only with "text box" and "current selection" objects. For all other objects you need to create it first on a sheet and then drag and drop it to the report.

An approach that I use is create a sheet containing only objects tailored to be put on reports. The sheet can be kept hidden after finishing a report development.

Best Regards,

Pablo

Anonymous · ‎2014-03-11

i need to add a link to the report. I tried to add with a text object. After publishing the report as a PDF, link action seems to not working.