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QlikDev 2012 - Como Gerenciar Metadados
QlikDev 2012 - Como Gerenciar Metadados
QlikDev 2012 - Como Gerenciar Metadados
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Two Main Uses for Metadata
• Deployment Metadata
– Understanding what you have built/deployed/used
• Development Metadata
– Driving development practices
Deployment Metadata
Descriptive
Administrative Structural
Architectural View of the QlikView Metamodel
Uses for Deployment Metadata
• For the Customer:
– Oversight and control of QlikView deployment
– Capacity planning and projections
– Analysis of key improvement/optimization opportunities
– Expansion planning
• For Partners and QlikTech (Sales, Pre-Sales, Services, Support)
– Remote overview of deployment (Services, Sales, Pre-Sales, Support)
– Analysis of key improvement/optimization opportunities
(Services/Pre-Sales)
– Positioning of Services & Training opportunities/value (Services)
– Customer expansion planning (Sales, Pre-Sales, Services)
– Issue scope and resolution (support)
Uses for Deployment Metadata
Demos
MetaScanner
MetaMonitor Sheet, Object, Expression
MetaMonitor: Unused fields
MetaMonitor: Complexity Analyzer
Development Metadata
• Translation from
technical to
business related
field names
• Tagging dimensions
and measures
• Tagging fields
• Comment fields &
tables
• Formula repository
Logical (technical) components
• Comment fields and tables
• Tag fields
• Comment Fields
• Comment Tables
Comment Fields & Tables
Comment Fields & Tables
Tag Fields
Create variables programmatically: Formula
Repository
• Some hints:
– Distinguish between global variables/expressions and
ad-hoc-expressions
– Don‘t use equal sign (=) when defining Ad-Hoc expressions
– Encapsulate the logic for loading the formula repository
into QlikView
Comment Objects (Designer Role)