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Mastering Qlik Sense

By : Juan Ignacio Vitantonio
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Mastering Qlik Sense

By: Juan Ignacio Vitantonio

Overview of this book

Qlik Sense is a powerful, self-servicing Business Intelligence tool for data discovery, analytics and visualization. It allows you to create personalized Business Intelligence solutions from raw data and get actionable insights from it. This book is your one-stop guide to mastering Qlik Sense, catering to all your organizational BI needs. You'll see how you can seamlessly navigate through tons of data from multiple sources and take advantage of the various APIs available in Qlik and its components for guided analytics. You'll also learn how to embed visualizations into your existing BI solutions and extend the capabilities of Qlik Sense to create new visualizations and dashboards that work across all platforms. We also cover other advanced concepts such as porting your Qlik View applications to Qlik Sense,and working with Qlik Cloud. Finally, you'll implement enterprise-wide security and access control for resources and data sources through practical examples. With the knowledge gained from this book, you'll have become the go-to expert in your organization when it comes to designing BI solutions using Qlik Sense.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

halyard.js

halyard.js is one of the latest open source libraries released by Qlik and is a library to support the loading of data into Qlik Sense apps, without the need for API developers to learn how to script within Qlik Sense. If you're a Qlik Sense or QlikView developer, you can consider halyard.js as a technical library that replaces the load script editor.

The library is split into two pieces to make it more flexible and extendable: one part that generates script and connection artifacts, and a second that takes those artifacts and feeds them to the QIX-engine through enigma.js.

One of the most powerful features in halyard.js is the capability to inline load data without using a connector. This empowers the user to import their raw data into a halyard.js table before the actual reload of the Qlik Sense app occurs. This gives the users the choice of any tool to access...