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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)

Summary

The visualizations and components that come out of the box with Qlik Sense are, although improving with each version of Qlik Sense, somewhat limited. Very soon, as you progress with your Qlik Sense project, you will hit a brick wall of requirements coming from your user audience, which cannot be implemented using the native objects, and you will need to resort to either finding an existing open source project online that solves that particular requirement, or you will need to build a visualization or component yourself using the Extensions and Qlik APIs.

This chapter has covered in great depth the way in which an extension project is structured. It has described its files and highlighted some best practices on how to approach a new code project to be implemented within Qlik. Furthermore, the property panel and the Generic Objects structures were explored and explained...