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Mastering Qlik Sense

You're reading from   Mastering Qlik Sense Expert techniques on self-service data analytics to create enterprise ready Business Intelligence solutions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783554027
Length 514 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Authors (2):
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Martin Mahler Martin Mahler
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Juan Ignacio Vitantonio Juan Ignacio Vitantonio
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Qlik Sense Self-Service Model FREE CHAPTER 2. Transitioning from QlikView to Qlik Sense 3. Security Rules: Attribute Based Access Control 4. Master Items in Qlik Sense 5. Qlik Sense on the Cloud 6. Qlik Sense Data Modeling 7. Best Practices for Loading Data in Qlik Sense 8. Advanced Scripting 9. Advanced Expressions in Qlik Sense 10. Overview of Qlik Sense APIs 11. Working with the Qlik Dev Hub 12. Coding in Qlik Sense 13. Creating Extensions in Qlik Sense 14. Integrating QS in Websites via Mashups 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

The properties panel

The properties panel is, in the author's opinion, one of the most valuable things about extensions in Qlik Sense and the general extensibility of the product as a whole. The property panel is the configuration interface between the JavaScript code and the self-service user or developer.

As such, it is essential to leverage and understand the property definition file.

First and foremost, it is recommended and best practice to capture the property definition in a separate file and load it via RequireJS to your main JavaScript file. This is done fairly simply by creating a new JavaScript file in the folder structure, suggested to be called properties.js:

In the MasteringQS.js file, you load the properties module by defining it in the top of the file structure:

//MasteringQS.js
define(['./properties', 'text!./template.html'],
function...
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