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Qlik Sense Cookbook

Qlik Sense Cookbook

By : Labbe, Hand, Kharpate
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Qlik Sense Cookbook

Qlik Sense Cookbook

3.3 (6)
By: Labbe, Hand, 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 (11 chapters)
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Activating the legacy mode in Qlik Sense® desktop

Qlik Sense is a developing product; hence, certain features are not active when running the Desktop version in its standard mode. A prime example of this is running Windows command-line statements or external programs, such as the 7zip file compressor. Both these activities are not possible if Qlik Sense runs in its standard mode. In order to get these functionalities to run, we need to activate the legacy mode. However, you must be aware that enabling the legacy mode has security implications, if the application is deployed on the Sense server. You do not have control over the data connections in QMC (if the legacy mode is activated). The library security features may also be lost; moreover, the user has access to the entire filesystem on Qlik Sense Server because the account running the Qlik Sense Engine Service has administrative privileges. Activating the legacy mode requires changing a parameter value in the settings.ini file for Qlik Sense Desktop. In the Qlik Sense Server, you must have an Administration Role to access the QMC.

The recipe is only valid for Qlik Sense Desktop:

  1. Make sure that Qlik Sense Desktop is closed before opening the settings.ini file.
  2. Open the settings.ini file that is, by default, stored under C:\Users\{user}\Documents\Qlik\Sense\Settings.ini, as shown in the following screenshot:
  1. Change StandardReload=1 to StandardReload=0.
  2. Save the file and start Qlik Sense Desktop in order to run it in a legacy mode.

How it works...

Changing the value for the StandardReload parameter in the settings.ini file enables the legacy mode in Qlik Sense. When running in legacy mode, any of the scripts in Qlik View can be directly used in Qlik Sense. This will also allow us to use the library connections.

There's more...

Qlik Sense has the ability to use the same script that is found in any QlikView file. You can also use a binary load statement in Qlik Sense in order to load the entire data model from an existing QlikView file. We can also run Windows command-line statements.

See also...

  • The Executing command line programs within the script recipe in Chapter 3, Scripting
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