Master Items are a new feature introduced with Qlik Sense which allow a developer to democratize the data and visualizations within an app. They permit you to effectively predefine, control, and maintain metrics, dimensions, and pre-canned visualizations, to make them readily available for the end users in the dashboard.
Next, to improving the self-service capabilities of a deployed app, Master Items also provide a way to deploy governance and control on self-service. By predefining available metrics and dimensions, you can prevent an inexperienced user from creating inefficient aggregations and calculations in the frontend, which could result in a RAM hit of the underlying server.
This chapter outlined typical strategies and use cases for deploying Master Items, as well as showcasing, step-by-step, how to create them in Qlik Sense. It concluded with the advantages and...
