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Qlik Sense Cookbook

By : Philip Hand, Neeraj Kharpate
Book Image

Qlik Sense Cookbook

By: Philip Hand, Neeraj Kharpate

Overview of this book

<p>This book is an excellent guide for all aspiring Qlik Sense® developers. It will take you through the basics, right through to the use of more advanced functions. With the recipes in this book, you will be empowered to create fully featured desktop applications in Qlik Sense®.</p> <p>Starting with a quick refresher on obtaining data from data files and databases, this book moves on to the more refined features of Qlik Sense®, including visualization, scripting, and set analysis. The tips and tricks provided will help you to overcome challenging situations while developing your applications in Qlik Sense®. This and more will help you to deliver engaging dashboards and reports efficiently.</p> <p>By the end of the book, you will be an expert user of Qlik Sense® and will be able to use its features effectively for business intelligence in an enterprise environment.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Qlik Sense Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Keyboard shortcuts in Qlik Sense® Desktop


The following keyboard shortcuts assume the use of MS Windows. For Mac OS, use Cmd instead of Ctrl:

Shortcut

Action

Ctrl + P

This prints the current view or active sheet/story.

Ctrl + C

This copies the selected item to the clipboard.

Ctrl + X

This cuts the selected item and copies it to the clipboard. When using the Google Chrome browser, if the cursor is put in front of a row in the data load editor or in the expression editor, without selecting anything, the entire row is cut.

Ctrl +V

This pastes the most recently copied item from the clipboard.

Ctrl +Z

Using this combination, you can undo an action. You can repeat it to undo earlier actions.

Ctrl +Y (Cmd + shift + Z for Mac OS)

Using this combination, you can redo actions.

Ctrl + H

This opens the online help in the context of the current function, while in the data load editor or the expression editor.

Ctrl + F

This opens smart search.

Ctrl + E

In the sheet view, this opens and closes the editing of the selected sheet.

Ctrl + S

This saves changes to the app.

Ctrl + O

This opens an app copied to the clipboard using Ctrl + C.

Ctrl + A

This selects all the code in the data load editor.

Ctrl + D

This deletes the content of the current line in the data load editor or in the expression editor.

Ctrl +K

This comments or uncomments the selected lines in the data load editor.

Ctrl + 00

This inserts a test script in the data load editor.

Tab

This indents the code in the data load editor.

Shift + Tab

This outdents the code in the data load editor.

Left arrow

This navigates to the previous slide in the storytelling view.

Right arrow

This navigates to the next slide in the storytelling view.

Up arrow

This scrolls up in a table.

Down arrow

This scrolls down in a table.

Ctrl + left arrow

This navigates to the previous sheet in the sheet view.

Ctrl + right arrow

This navigates to the next sheet in the sheet view.

Ctrl + up arrow

This navigates to the first sheet of the app in the sheet view.

Ctrl + down arrow

This navigates to the last sheet of the app in the sheet view.

Esc

This exits play mode in the storytelling view.

This deselects a visualization when editing in the sheet view.

This deselects an object.

This undoes selections in a visualization.

This closes a dialog or window.

Delete

This deletes the selected item.

Backspace

This deletes the selected item.

Enter/Return

This performs the actions for the active option or button (for example, in dialogs).

Ctrl + +

Using this combination, you can zoom in.

Ctrl + -

Using this combination, you can zoom out.

Ctrl + 0

This resets zooming.