Monthly Archives: October 2013

Masters Summit London & Barcelona: a success

From October 9 – 11 and from October 14 – 16, the European edition of the Masters Summit for QlikView was held in London and Barcelona. The goal of this event is to show and discuss advanced concepts, methods and techniques for QlikView development and deployment through 3 days of hands-on sessions and discussions. Together with Bill Lay, Oleg Troyansky and Rob Wunderlich I was one of the speakers at this event.

The Masters Summit Team

The Masters Summit team, from left to right: organizer Kevin McCann and speakers Bill Lay, Barry Harmsen, Rob Wunderlich and Oleg Troyansky

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Or-mode selections between list boxes

and & or selections in QlikViewAt the Masters Summit for QlikView in London we ended the second day with an informal ‘stump the geek’ session. In this session participants could submit technically challenging questions to a panel. Besides the four presenters, this panel also consisted of Steve Dark, Stephen Redmond and Henric Cronström. You can imagine that I found myself surrounded by an awesome amount of QlikView knowledge.

While challenging, most of the questions could either be answered on the spot or a conceptual solution could be described. There was however one question that didn’t really yield an, in my opinion, satisfactory answer. The consensus almost seemed to drift towards ‘it cannot be done’ or ‘that is not how QlikView works’. The question was:

Can we make “or” selections between list boxes, instead of the standard “and” selections?

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