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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)

Security rules actions

Within security rules, Actions form the second part (out of four, see previous section, Attribute-Based Access Control) of the ACAB and determine what type of activity the user is permitted to perform on the defined resource. While read and write are common actions very familiar to traditional access control, Qlik Sense has extended them to many more, which, on one side, makes the security rules rich and powerful; but on the other side, complicated as well. This section will cover the different types of actions in Qlik's security rules and will discuss potential use cases where relevant. Each action applies to a specified resource, which forms the basis of how it can be utilized.

Permissions on actions are applied to both the Qlik Management Console and the hub, as the following image shows:

  • Create: Create allows the user to create the defined type...