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Qlik Sense Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Pablo Labbe, Philip Hand, Neeraj Kharpate
Book Image

Qlik Sense Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Pablo Labbe, Philip Hand, Neeraj Kharpate

Overview of this book

Qlik Sense allows you to explore simple and complex data to reveal hidden insight and data relationships that help you make quality decisions for overall productivity. An expert Qlik Sense user can use its features for business intelligence in an enterprise environment effectively. Qlik Sense Cookbook is an excellent guide for all aspiring Qlik Sense developers and will empower you to create featured desktop applications to obtain daily insights at work. This book takes you through the basics and advanced functions of Qlik Sense February 2018 release. You’ll start with a quick refresher on obtaining data from data files and databases, and move on to some more refined features including visualization, and scripting, as well as managing apps and user interfaces. You will then understand how to work with advanced functions like set analysis and set expressions. As you make your way through this book, you will uncover newly added features in Qlik Sense such as new visualizations, label expressions and colors for dimension and measures. By the end of this book, you will have explored various visualization extensions to create your own interactive dashboard with the required tips and tricks. This will help you overcome challenging situations while developing your applications in Qlik Sense.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Publishing a Qlik Sense® application created in Qlik Sense® Desktop


The licensing model of Qlik would not be very useful if everyone used Qlik Sense Desktop only for themselves. In a published BI environment, simply creating an application in Qlik Sense Desktop will not suffice; it has to be made available to the end user. The application needs to be published via the Qlik Sense Management Console.

Getting ready

To accomplish this recipe, you need access to Qlik Sense Enterprise Server. You need some administration rights, such as content admin or root admin, to execute the following steps as well.

How to do it…

Any Qlik Sense application that is created in Qlik Sense Desktop needs to be imported using the Qlik Sense management console prior to publishing it:

  1. To do this, open the Qlik Sense Qlik Management Console (QMC) through the Windows shortcut or use the following URL:
https://<Qlik Sense Server Hostname>/QMC 

 

 

 

 

  1. In the QMC, click on Apps in the left pane and go to the Apps section...