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Mastering Qlik Sense

By : Martin Mahler, Juan Ignacio Vitantonio, Ralf Becher, Karl Pover, Jason Michaelides, Dilyana Ivanova, David Alcobero

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Mastering Qlik Sense

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By: Martin Mahler, Juan Ignacio Vitantonio, Ralf Becher, Karl Pover, Jason Michaelides, Dilyana Ivanova, David Alcobero

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.

Preface

Preface

Who this book is for

What this book covers

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Qlik Sense Self-Service Model

Qlik Sense Self-Service Model

A review of Qlik Sense

The Self-Service model

The IKEA effect

User types in self-service

Benefits and challenges of self-service

Recommendations on deploying self-service with Qlik Sense

Summary

Transitioning from QlikView to Qlik Sense

Transitioning from QlikView to Qlik Sense

Journey from QlikView to Qlik Sense

QlikView and Qlik Sense comparison

The different approach to projects

Differences in the loading script

Differences in the frontend

Where to upskill to transition to Qlik Sense

Qlik Sense on mobile

Summary

Security Rules: Attribute Based Access Control

Security Rules: Attribute Based Access Control

Introducing Attribute-Based Access Control

Administrator roles

Security rules resources

Security rules actions

Security rules conditions

Auditing security rules

Security rule uses cases and examples

Summary

Master Items in Qlik Sense

Master Items in Qlik Sense

Understanding Master Items

Different types of Master Items

Working with Master Items

Master measures

Master visualizations

Summary

Qlik Sense on the Cloud

Qlik Sense on the Cloud

Data analytics in the cloud

Qlik Sense cloud models

Hybrid cloud

Summary

Qlik Sense Data Modeling

Qlik Sense Data Modeling

The engine drives everything

What should be done upstream from Qlik Sense?

Star schema fact and dimension tables

Summary

Best Practices for Loading Data in Qlik Sense

Best Practices for Loading Data in Qlik Sense

Data loading concepts

Optimizing your data loads

Incremental loads

ETL – extract, transform, load

Summary

Advanced Scripting

Advanced Scripting

Formatting settings through variables

Script control statements

Table stats

Data security with Section Access

Advanced sample scripts

Summary

Advanced Expressions in Qlik Sense

Advanced Expressions in Qlik Sense

Set analysis

Variables

Maintaining expressions

Summary

Overview of Qlik Sense APIs

Overview of Qlik Sense APIs

What is an API?

Description of Qlik APIs

Engine API

Extension API

Backend API

Capability API

enigma.js

Leonardo UI

halyard.js

Summary

Working with the Qlik Dev Hub

Working with the Qlik Dev Hub

Dev Hub

The Single configurator

The Extension editor

The Mashup editor

The Widget editor

QlikView converter

Summary

Coding in Qlik Sense

Coding in Qlik Sense

HTML5

CSS

JavaScript

RequireJS

AngularJS

D3.js as a visualization library

Summary

Creating Extensions in Qlik Sense

Creating Extensions in Qlik Sense

Structuring your code

The properties panel

HyperCube

Example 1-bar chart

Example 2- drop-down list

Qlik Branch and other open source repositories

Summary

Integrating QS in Websites via Mashups

Integrating QS in Websites via Mashups

Getting set up

Connecting to the Qlik Engine

Embedding objects

Interacting with the Engine

Summary

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Summary

Dev Hub comes out of the box with any Qlik Sense installation. It is the go-to place if you are a beginner and want to start creating mashups, extensions, and widgets, or to convert QlikView files into Qlik Sense applications. It is, however, not recommend to use Dev Hub for advanced projects, and you should instead use all the recommendations covered in the following chapters.

Dev Hub also provides an Engine API explorer, which comes in handy when developing extensions.

Whether you are new to Qlik Sense or a seasoned developer, there is a lot you can learn from Dev Hub by dragging and dropping objects, and inspecting the code behind it.

Many developers will prefer to use external integrated development environments (IDE) to create what Dev Hub offers, but I advise you spend a good amount of time exploring all of the possibilities it offers.
In the next chapter, Coding...

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