Qlik Sense August 2023
Qlik Sense August 2023
Patric Nordström
Qlik
August 2023
Aug 2023 Visualization improvements
Chart Animations in line and bullet chart – In SaaS May 30th
Button fixed label size – In SaaS May 30th
Treemap styling panel – In SaaS June 6th
Sheet title on off setting – In SaaS June 13th
Toolbar on off setting – In SaaS June 13th
Show conditions in Bar chart – In SaaS June 13th
Legend Styling for Line, Bar, Pie, Combo, Scatter, Mekko, Distribution plot &
Waterfall – In SaaS June 20th
Direct Query (SaaS only)
Direct Query new databases – SaaS only May 30th
Direct Query Cache settings – SaaS only May 30th
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Visualization
updates
Improved styling and new features
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Button label text size
New modes to control size: fixed, fluid and responsive
• Fixed: set size in pixels.
• Fluid: set relative to
button height, will resize
with button. Overflow
can happen.
• Responsive: label
scales to always fit, the
old mode.
• Same behavior as the
KPI.
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Sheet title on off setting
Style the sheet as you want
New app setting: “Show sheet header”
for all sheets in an application.
Useful for:
• Replace and make your own sheet
titles
• Get more space for content
• Replace with navigation buttons
Note, the previous and next sheet are
removed with the sheet title. Add
buttons instead, use keyboard
navigation ctrl + ⯇ and ctrl + ⯈ or the
sheet navigation drop down.
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Toolbar on off setting Use ctrl-E to switch to
Style the sheet as you want edit mode.
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Treemap styling
Font styling expanded to more charts
• Set font family, size and color
• Treemap labels
- Header label and background
- Leaf label
- Legend title
- Legend label
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Legend styling
Font family, size and color on legends
• Legends are getting styling
• Font family, size and color for
Legend title and labels
• Starting with Line, Bar, Pie,
Combo, Scatterplot, Mekko,
Distribution plot & Waterfall
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Direct Query
SaaS Only
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Direct Query Databases
Microsoft SQL Server, Azure SQL, Azure Synapse and PostgreSQL
• New databases with Direct Query
• Microsoft SQL Server, Azure SQL, Azure Synapse and PostgreSQL
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Direct Query Cache settings
Queries are cached per user and session
• New setting for controlling the query cache
• DirectQueryResultCacheExpirySeconds=n;
• Default value 30 seconds
• -1 : cache kept whole session
• 0 : cache disabled
• Useful for to balance recency and query cost
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Aug
2023