Document Properties: General

In this group set the level of compression for the QlikView files.

• Compression: The options Medium and High substantially decrease the size of the QlikView file while sacrificing some load and save speed. Compression options set under Document Properties affect the current document. Compression options set under User Preferences affect all new documents.

User Preferences: Save

Alternate States functionality is enabled by a QlikView developer. The developer invokes the Alternate States dialog by clicking this button.

Alternate States.

The Background Color for the Default Sheet Background of the document window(s) can be customized by checking this alternative. A color can be defined as a solid color or a gradient via the Color Area dialog that opens when clicking the button. Alternatively, it is possible to specify a background image by checking Wallpaper Image and clicking the Change button. This will open the Change Wallpaper dialog where a picture file can be selected.

The background image can be altered with the following options:

Image Formatting:

• No Stretch: The image is displayed as is, which may cause masking problems.
• Fill: The image is stretched in order to fill the sheet, without regard to aspect ratio.
  
• Keep Aspect: The image is stretched as far as possible while retaining the correct aspect ratio.
  
• Fill with Aspect: The image is stretched as far as possible while retaining the correct aspect ratio. Areas not covered are then filled by cropping of the image.
• Tile: If this option is selected, the image will be tiled the as many times as space allows.
  

Horizontal and Vertical orientation:

• Horizontal: The image can be horizontally aligned: Left, Centered or Right.
• Vertical: The image can be vertically aligned: Top, Centered or Bottom.

If the Use Passive FTP Semantics option is checked, the passive Ftp semantics will be enabled. The passive semantics option is used for communicating with a server through a firewall.

Open Internet Files or Open QlikView Document

The QlikView sheet tabrow may be removed by checking Hide Tabrow. In order to move between sheets use the Next Sheet / Previous Sheet actions or the Sheet Toolbar of the View menu. It is also possible to use automation control, which will e.g. make it possible to force the user to move between sheets and even making selections in a specific order.

The Keep Unreferenced QVD Buffers setting overrules the normal procedure whereby any automatically created QVD files are purged immediately after script execution, provided they are no longer used by the document that created them. This setting should normally be left unchecked.

If the Legacy Fractile Calculation check box is enabled, QlikView will use discrete values as results from the fractile aggregation function. Deselect the check box and QlikView will use an interpolated value, as known from the Percentile function in Microsoft Excel.

When the check box Disable Layout Undo is marked the layout undo buffer will be suspended. This may be useful to prevent unnecessary memory consumption when deploying certain QlikView documents. Each time a user or a macro changes the layout a chunk of data is normally added to the layout undo buffer. In extreme cases, the accumulated buffer data may cause problems when deploying documents on a QlikView Server.

Toggles WebView mode, which uses the internal web browser in QlikView to display the document layout as an AJAX page, on and off.

Use Default Export Encoding to set the default character set for export in new documents. Choose one of these option: ANSI, Unicode or UTF-8.

In the drop-down menu Styling Mode choose the object style for all the sheet objects.

• The Advanced mode makes it possible to configure several settings, such as the Sheet Object Style and the type of border to be used, set on the Layout page of the objects.
  
• The Simplified mode also gives the choice of Sheet Object Style, but configures most settings automatically. It sets such things as Scrollbar Style and borders. Some settings can still be changed on the layout page of the objects.

QlikView supports several different ways of presenting data and making selections in list boxes and multi boxes. The QlikView Classic, Corner Tag, LED and Led Checkboxes styles all use color coding for indication of selected, possible and excluded values. The Windows Checkboxes style and the LED Checkboxes style mimic the standard Windows interface with a check box at each value. By choosing a specific style in this control, it is possible to force the document to appear in one style or another wherever opened. When using the selection styles based on color, there are a number of different color schemes available. The basic color scheme (green for selected, blue for locked etc.) cannot be changed, but variations of tone and intensity are possible.

User Preferences: General and List Box

• Style: Sets the selection style for the document. Select from among the available alternatives in the drop-down list. By choosing <User Default> the document will always be opened with the selection style set as preferred by the user under User Preferences on the computer where it is opened.
• Color Scheme: Sets the selection color scheme for the document. Select from among the available alternatives in the drop-down list. By choosing <User Default> the document will always be opened with the selection color scheme set as preferred by the user under User Preferences on the computer where it is opened.
• Transparency: Sets the transparency of the selection color in list boxes and multi boxes.