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Hands-On Dashboard Development with QlikView

You're reading from   Hands-On Dashboard Development with QlikView Practical guide to creating interactive and user-friendly business intelligence dashboards

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838646110
Length 156 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Abhishek Agarwal Abhishek Agarwal
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Text objects

In this section, we will look at text objects, why we use them, how you can create a text object, and then, finally, text object properties.

Text objects are very helpful when creating a banner – for example, if you want to create a banner where you want to mention your dashboard name, the month, and other information, you can use a text object there. Or, let's say if you want to add a logo, you can add an image to the text object and add a logo to your dashboard so that it gives the look and feel of a standard company dashboard. Apart from this, you will encounter other scenarios where you can use the text object once you become familiar with it.

So, now, let's go ahead and see how we can create a text object. To create a text object, as always, we can right-click and select the New Sheet Object option. Let's give it a name, for example, Airlines...

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