Feeling Brave? Use this methodology for your next Qlik Sense app build... If you come from a Qlikview background, you may have mixed emotions about your first Qlik Sense implementations.. maybe it looked something like this: Design specification or reporting pack provided by business that
CSSGrid feels so warm inside Party like its 2000! Table layouts are back and better than ever. Finally a standard CSS approach to responsive design that only gives me a partial headache. Get ready to unlearn some stuff
Chrome Tool for testing websocket communication with Qlik Sense You may be familliar with postman for doing REST calls to the Qlik APIs. You can also test websocket queries using this tool: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/smart-websocket-client/omalebghpgejjiaoknljcfmglgbpocdp Its pretty
Easiest way to use Qlik JSON requests in nodejs You could use enigma, qsocks and one of the other libraries. The most straight forward way I have found however is to simply use ws. const WebSocket = require('ws'); const ws = new WebSocket(
Full List of Qlik Sense Repository (QRS) API Paths and Endpoints So this is likely only going to be valuable if you are doing something more advanced with Qlik Sense in a web application or custom on demand scenario. Let me know what your
Qlik Sense Consulting Qlik Sense Video background Extension This extension lets you use videos as a background to your Qlik Sense Dashboard. In this example I connected aerial views of different energy sources to selections made on the dashboard. It certainly
latitude and longitude All US Zip Codes with Latitude and Longitude for Qlik Sense Hello! This is a file that contains all longitude and latitudes for the US zip codes. It has proven really useful for Qlik Sense Mapping visualizations. It contains the latitude and longitude of
geographical data All UK Postcodes.CSV with Lat and Longs for Qlik Sense Hello! This is a file I created by scraping data from a freely available Geographical API. It has proven really useful for Qlik Sense Mapping visualizations. It contains the latitude and longitude of
date serial number Handle Qlik Dates inside an extension using Moment.js Recently I was trying to use dates as one of the dimensions inside an extension. Qlik can deal with lots of types of dates, when they are passed to the extension they come
qlik sense consultant Getting data from a Qlik Sense object using the API Qlik Sense objects each have a table of data behind them that is used by the visualisation. This is been called a ‘hypercube’ by Qlik. If you have lots of rows in your
extract text from image 'New feature' that lets your phone grab text from an image is actually from 1984 So the other day I was trying to work out how to translate pictures of food menus into text without typing them in. Don’t ask why… This lead me down the dark
pie charts How to use a pie chart? The golden rules Personally, I don’t have anything against a pie chart in the right context. Some people hate pie charts/donut charts, I do not hold such strong views. Really when considering using a
data visualisation Avoiding the spaghetti line chart One of the easiest charts to create in Qlik Sense or Excel or any BI tool is a line chart. Very good for showing trends over time but also very easy to make
data visualisation Make it rain! (with particles.js data visualisation library) Here is a great well built visualisation library that could easily be transformed into a data powered visualisation to use with Qlik. Psychedelic! Here are some horrible monstrosities I created playing around with
data visualisation creator Create and Embed bar, line, pie charts and maps in your website (for free) Are you looking for a quick way to **turn your excel/csv/text file into an interactive **visualization you can embed on your website for free? This post will show you exactly that
What are streams in Qlik Sense? Streams are kind of like user groups. Here are the key points about Qlik Sense Streams: A stream enables users to read and/or publish apps, sheets, and stories. Users who have publish
data warehouse Use Qlik Sense as a data warehouse Most organisations and people in business intelligence are aware of the term Data Warehouse and its percieved benefits: A Data Warehouse Delivers Enhanced Business Intelligence A Data Warehouse Saves Time A Data Warehouse
correctly format dates Using tags in the Qlik Sense Table Viewer to make sure fields are stored correctly Normally Qlik Sense does a great job of picking up whether the field is a date or text. Sometimes you get some data thats fallen off the back of a lorry that doesn’
qlik inline table Store data within Qlik Sense with an inline table Sometimes you may have some data that you want to store just within the load script and not have a completely separate data source. You can use an inline table to do this:
Qlik Sense Accessibility Qlik Sense Voice Control Extension Now you can control Qlik Sense dashboards with just your voice using this extension in Chrome. Chrome is currently the only browser that properly supports MIC usage. This extension has two purposes, the
adding external data The Qlik Sense Datamarket - what is it and how do I use it? Datamarket is an attempt to give you access to reliable external data such as Weather, Demographics to provide insight with your own data set. Practically it means that once you go through the
Qlik Sense Consulting Are Qlik Sense extensions Safe? Questions to ask yourself before putting an extension in a live app Extensions are cool and wizzy. They are great for early buy in on a Qlik Sense project, but in production there are some important questions to ask before utilizing them: Who built the
dev-hub The Qlik Sense Dev Hub - Overview If you were wondering how to manage extensions or Mashups in Qlik sense you can do this directly in Qlik Sense Desktop by accessing the new Qlik Sense Dev-Hub. It lets you create
qlik sense 2.1 features Qlik Sense 2.1 has variable editor, media library, visualization exploration and more Yesterday Qlik released Qlik Sense 2.1. This one has loads of things and is really worth a download, the product is starting to mature and i’m very sure there’s loads
