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I am new to QlikView. From a training perspective, is it better to start with a Designer course or a Developer course if you are planning on taking both courses?
First of All, Welcome to QlikView
I would recommend you to select Developer. Designer also good but Developer is bit advanced
Hi Thomas,
Before to take course I would like to suggest you to understand the difference between QlikVeiw Designer and QlikView Developer.
1. QlikView Designer: QlikView Designer course cover the fundamentals things which are required to get started building QlikView Application.
QlikView Designer course mostly consist on listed below topics,
1. QlikView Introduction,
2. Getting Familiar with the QlikView Desktop Edition
3. Designing Your Dashboard
4. Loading Data into your QlikView Document
5. Simple Sheet Objects
6. Dimensions
7. Expressions
8. Charts
9. Best Practices, etc
2. QlikView Developer: QlikView Developer course is the next level of QlikView Designer, This course is must if you are building QlikView Document.
QlikView Developer course mostly consist on listed below topics,
1. QlikView Introduction
2. Data Sources
3. The Difference Between ODBC and OLE DB
4. Advanced Scripting and Data Model Optimization
5. Variables
6. Comments
7. Bringing Data into your QlikView document from Multiple Data Sources
8. Crosstable and Generic Table
9. Renaming Fields
10. Table Viewer
11. Script Debuging
12. Loads and their types
13. Synthetic Keys
14. Circular references
15. Link Tables and Concatenate
16. Master Calendar
17. QVD and QVX
18. The Include Statement
19. Mapping Tables
20. Regular statements and script control statements
21. Security and Section Access
22. Best Practices, etc
For more please have a look into the given below link, from given below link you can easily see the difference and QlikView Certification Prerequisite, Recommended Preparation Resources and Exam Domain Area.
Please note, QlikView Developer Certification consist on both (QlikView Designer and QlikView Developer Certification). However, QlikView Designer is not consist on both certificates and you will only be called QlikView Designer not QlikView Developer. For QlikView Certification refer to book "QlikView 11 for Developers" by Barry Harmsen and Miguel García.
Kind regards,
Ishfaque Ahmed
Thanks Marco, I had missed that when I was reviewing the courses.
Thanks Ishfaque, This information helped me better understand the differences in the two courses supporting Marco's response as well.
You're welcome
Glad it helped
regards
Marco