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Implementing Qlik Sense

You're reading from   Implementing Qlik Sense Design, Develop, and Validate BI solutions for consultants

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786460448
Length 438 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Kaushik Solanki Kaushik Solanki
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Ganapati Hegde Ganapati Hegde
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Preface 1. Consultant - An Introduction FREE CHAPTER 2. Preparing for the Project 3. Prerequisites to Start a Project 4. Requirement Gathering 5. Architecture Design 6. Development 7. Validation, UAT and Go-Live 8. Post Go-Live 9. Avoiding Common Pitfalls 10. Knowledge Sets 11. A Real Life Case-Study

Use of Extensions

Extensions, as the name suggests, allow you to extend the power of Qlik Sense by creating your own charts and graphs using the Qlik Sense APIs. Assume that you want to show some analysis to your business users but it cannot be shown using the available visualization library. In such cases, Qlik Sense allows you to create your own charts and use them in Qlik Sense application.

Qlik Sense has exposed several APIs to extend the capabilities of Qlik Sense. One of such APIs is visualization API. These are the same APIs that are used by Qlik Sense to create its own inbuilt visualizations.

If you are well versed with web technology like HTML and scripting like JavaScript, then you can easily create your own extensions. You can also use third-party APIs and visualization libraries, like D3, Chart.js, Echarts, and so on.

Let us have a look at few extensions which will...

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