Now, most of us will do testing of new user interface (UI) elements upfront, I guess. Therefore we always want some test data to experiment with. A nice shortcut in QlikView’s script editor is the one for adding a script for some sample data.

The shortcut will work if you press:

CTRL – QQ

This will give you the following script in your editor:

Characters:
Load Chr(RecNo()+Ord('A')-1) as Alpha, RecNo() as Num autogenerate 26;

ASCII:
Load 
 if(RecNo()>=65 and RecNo()<=90,RecNo()-64) as Num,
 Chr(RecNo()) as AsciiAlpha, 
 RecNo() as AsciiNum
autogenerate 255
 Where (RecNo()>=32 and RecNo()<=126) or RecNo()>=160 ;

Transactions:
Load
 TransLineID, 
 TransID,
 mod(TransID,26)+1 as Num,
 Pick(Ceil(3*Rand1),'A','B','C') as Dim1,
 Pick(Ceil(6*Rand1),'a','b','c','d','e','f') as Dim2,
 Pick(Ceil(3*Rand()),'X','Y','Z') as Dim3,
 Round(1000*Rand()*Rand()*Rand1) as Expression1,
 Round( 10*Rand()*Rand()*Rand1) as Expression2,
 Round(Rand()*Rand1,0.00001) as Expression3;
Load 
 Rand() as Rand1,
 IterNo() as TransLineID,
 RecNo() as TransID
Autogenerate 1000
 While Rand()<=0.5 or IterNo()=1;

Comment Field Dim1 With "This is a field comment";

Try it, I hope this is useful in some cases.

Have fun with your next test 😉