Hi, i'm really New to This, and have many things to ask..

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Hi, Good Morning Everyone

I'm Really new to this, I just created some tables in QlikView Personal Edition for my workplace, showing some data of the production of the week.

I knew about QlikView when our manager asked us how could we determined some information (I would try not to talk about that information, because about policy). So I started to develop something in Excel, i had the information and then created some charts, and if i wanted to see my product machine name A, i can just click on it and then see which week. We have more than 30 product machines and i was able to click on each machine and compare from differents weeks.

When i showed this to our Manager he liked the idea, but now he wanted it on the shopfloor (production floor), he wanted to be able to see it in a screen and he could manage to see generally the information of our Line Product Machine A, and he could be able to see each machine of that Line A.

I talked to one of my brothers and he told me about QlikView, that for sure QlikView would do that, but that i had just to tried it and make some examples and all.

He was Correct.

I created some tables, linked to some information, and i could do the same as i develop in Excel, but it was a lot more easy in QlikView. I still have some issues and here comes my first question.

1.- I downloaded my Personal Edition, and i know i can't open other files from others users. How can i upgrade my QlikView, so i can open other files or from some other users on the web like examples and that?.

And about the shopfloor, what do i need to use to make this work. I have some ideas, but they are not really clear. That's why i'm here.

I don't know if Qlik Sense or QlikDeskptop would work better.

I have the idea that i will install some QlikView Server in one of my server, and this will be my main computer of QlikView. The others (the one's at ShopFloor, or it could even TV's i don't know, please suggest me) from Shopfloop i would like to interact with this information, so i can go to Line A, and see Producto Machines A1 A2 A3 A4 A5. Then keep walking on the shopfloor and go to Line B and see the information of product machines B1, B2, B3, B4.

I know its a little bit confusing all this information, that's why i need a lot of help, to understand this, it seems easy for those with experience, but for me its a little bit confuse on what do i need.

Even if i need some license even just to check information, or to only interact, i don't know.

Any ideas, please?

Sorry for my English.. i did my best.

[datanibbler · Accepted solution]

Hi,

well, you will need at least one full license -"Named_CAL" - for the one developer supposed to develop and look after QlikView_apps. If you really just want to view the app that someone has created, then a "Document_CAL" might be enough for you, but it allows you to open only ONE app - if you want to just view them all, you need a "Named_CAL" again.

For info on how QlikView works etc., have a look around on Youtube, there's plenty of stuff available.

For more in-depth information, start with "QlikView 11 for Developers" (book).

I hope that will help to get you started.

In case you remember that sentence:

"You have made the first step into a bigger world" 😉

Welcome to QlikView!

Best regards,

DataNibbler

P.S.: With us, it's like this: We have QlikViewServer installed on our company's server. Me, I am the developer and I have a "Named_CAL" to mess around with all the QlikView_apps here. We have a nr. more of those licenses for management as they have a "Management_Dashboard" with overview information and links to all the specific "Team_Dashboards" - the teams only have a Document_CAL each to view just their specific Dashboard - on a monitor (like all users, incl. management, they view QlikView via the browser, it's still interactive and all, and no need to update the software) - all there is to update once in a while is the QlikViewServer, and maybe the Client_software that is installed only on the developers'  laptops - you cannot edit apps in the browser which is an advantage if you give all the users just the browser_access (the document_CAL also doesn't include those access_rights)

The entire implementation can actually be managed using the management_console (QMC) which is accesssible to the members of a specific security_group "QlikView_admins". It's important though to document e.g. the allocation of licenses. That can be done by a Powertool in QlikView itself, but we have an Excel_matrix - easier if "outsiders" without a QlikView_license are supposed to view that.

That said, you can always export charts and "reports" (self-made combinations of charts etc.) to Excel or pdf so people without a license can view or print them.

Here in the Community you'll find lots of practical help, great blogs, best-practice documents and much more.

[jaimeaguilar]

Hola, creo que será más fácil en español,

Primero que nada, qué bueno que te interesas en QlikView. Como ya pudiste ver es una herramienta muy poderosa para el análisis de información (por decir lo menos).

En cuanto a cual es la solución adecuada para ti, creo que dependerá mucho de las necesidades de visualización, explotación y análisis de información que tengan. QlikView es el producto estrella y ya está muy bien consolidado y está pensado para ser una herramienta de análisis/BI muy amigable en donde puedes desarrollar aplicaciones, pero se requiere de cierto trabajo para llegar a un producto final.

En cambio Qlik Sense, aprovecha todo el modelo asociativo de QlikView, pero el front-end está pensado para usuarios finales sin mucho conocimiento (o sin conocimiento) de bases de datos y de sistemas en general, de modo que puedan crear sus propias visualizaciones sin mucho trabajo y en pocos pasos. Digamos que es un paso hacia adelante en cuanto al BI de autoservicio.

Qlik Sense ya se está empezando a vender, aunque todavía no es un producto equivalente a QlikView, pero se está trabajando en eso para que Qlik Sense tenga cada vez más funcionalidades. Además de que el licenciamiento es diferente en cada producto y las licencias no son compatibles entre si (aunque también se puede optar en algún momento por un esquema mixto de licencias).

¿En que país te encuentras?, Yo trabajo en una consultora de QlikView en la Ciudad de México, tal vez podamos comunicarnos y darte más información al respecto en caso de que estén interesados por QlikView / Qlik Sense

Saludos