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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)

Master visualizations

Master visualizations are created to organize the most common or important visualizations used in the application. This is so that they can be reused across the app and be made available to the user on the left-hand asset panel via drag and drop. At the same time, for governance purposes, if the self-service capabilities should be limited on the dashboard, it will allow the developer to pre-create all charts, which can then be inserted by the users to create their bespoke dashboard. Also, if the data model is only meaningful if presented in a particular way, these preset charts can also assist the self-service capabilities of the dashboard by supporting
Unlike with master dimensions or master measures, there is only one way to create master Visualizations. Again, Master Items can only be created or amended when the app is yet unpublished.

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