Integration of salesforce and Qlikview

First of all , you need to download Qlikview and install which is quite normal then download the Qlikview for salesforce zip file from appexchange. 1. Place the .dll file in your ..\Program Files\QlikView folder where qv.exe resides. 2. Create a new file or load an existing one. To be sure the dll is loaded correctly go under file > edit script. Select the "Custom Data" tab at the bottom and see the SalesForceDll.dll available to you (the tab will be greyed out if the dll is not present).

Click on the Connect button, this will prompt you for your salesforce username/Password. You can supply your login credentials here and save then Reload the script. Until now you have only created your connection, but no table has been downloaded and none are accessible yet. You need to select the tables that you will work with using some select statements or using the wizard by clicking on the Select button.

Author: Vanessen Munisamy | Spoon Consulting , Mauritius

But a problem that generally arises is that Qlikview cannot create the association between Accounts and Contacts automatically. If you are importing custom objects from your salesforce app and that some objects are related via Master-detail relationship or lookup, Qlikview cannot create the associations because of the following reasons: 1. The fields need to have exactly the same spelling (case sensitive), or 2. they need to have exactly the same numeric value So for these reason we will have to rename the fields that are to be associated, but this raise another problem. In some versions of Qlikview I do not know which versions aliasing is not allowed in select statement. I have come across a solution, and here it is:

In the following codes I have retrieved my tables Periode__c and expense__c where expense is a child of period (master-relationship). Hope this short article will help you to start with the integration.

Author: Vanessen Munisamy | Spoon Consulting , Mauritius