Alternate State is the ability to compare multiple selections from the same data to each other. Qlikview developer can create multiple states within a QlikView document and then apply these states to specific objects within the document. This feature can be utilized to compare multiple groups of,
for example, sales. It is also useful to compare selected products vs the rest of the products. you can compare the sales of different products to sales in other countries or different product groups for a particular year 2011 side by side in the same charts.
It allows to create a named states that operates independently to each other.
