Playing with Extensions in Sense

[Michael_Tarallo]

As you know, extensions provide additional functionality that extend the capability of many products. QlikView has this capability, so it only makes sense to have it in Qlik Sense too - no pun intended.

I'd like to point out that Extensions are not limited to just visualizations. You can implement other types of functionality, including those available from the Qlik Sense API. (This will become more relative when the Qlik Sense Server is released later this year. See the ToolBar extension to see a simple example of this.)

If you want to check out the current example extensions that are available with Sense you can perform the following steps:

1. Go to C:\Users\<user>\Documents\Qlik\Examples\Extensions
2. Copy the complete folder of the extension you want to C:\Users\<user>\Documents\Qlik\Sense\Extensions
3. Restart Desktop

So for example - if you want to use the PeopleChart:

Take the complete folder from C:\Users\<user>\Documents\Qlik\Examples\Extensions

Copy to it to:

C:\Users\<user>\Documents\Qlik\Sense\Extensions

After Desktop starts, go to the design interface in an app:

Use as you would by adding measures and dimensions

Enjoy!

[#2]

Michael,

Can Qlik Sense extensions be applied to a server side installation, or are these limited to the Qlik Sense Desktop application?

[Alexander_Thor]

Extensions work great in the server edition.

You upload them through QMC and they become available in the client.

Sent from my Windows Phone

[Michael_Tarallo]

Hello Brad,

Just expanding on Alex's reply:

Look for Extensions in the main menu, click import and browse for the .zip extension file. Once imported successfully, it should be available in the chart objects. However, extensions are not allowed in Qlik Sense Cloud....yet

[#5]

Is there any extenssion to customize the width of the bar in a bar chart??

Thanks

[timsaddler]

Hi Michael

I've got a bit confused by this now !!

All work done on our Qliksense server.

I started by copying PeopleChart folder as instructed at the start of this thread.

That didn't work !

read through to the bottom of the thread now

In the QMC I've now found the Extensions/Import option

But where do I get a zip file for the People chart ?

Kind regards

[Michael_Tarallo]

Hey Tim - it seems it has been removed from the default installation.

Let me check with bmz‌.

@Brian?

[Michael_Tarallo]

Hi Martha, not that I know of. Have you checked out Qlik Branch - The Front Page - just to see if you can find something?

Regards,

Mike T

[Alexander_Thor]

You can just zip up the assets yourself if you want to.

We will unpack the zip after you upload it anyways, the reasoning behind us wanting a zip is that it's just so much easier for the users.

Extensions usually consist of quite a few files, ranging from a minimum of 3 and the largest one I've seen had 14 000 files so you don't want to manually upload all of those

[#10]

Ok, thanks

I found something

But I have some problems with the JS code.

Take a look at this:

				svg.append("g")
				.attr("class", "x axis")
				.attr("transform", "translate(0," + treemap.size()[1] + ")")
				.call(d3.svg.axis().scale(d3.scale.ordinal().rangeRoundBands([0, width])))
				.call(d3.svg.axis().scale(d3.scale.ordinal().domain(data.map(function (d) { return d.secondDimension }))));

With this I am trying to put the "CategoryName" as X axis but it does not work. Is looks like this

Do you have any idea why it does not work??

[Michael_Tarallo]

Hi Martha, the best thing to do in these situations (using something from Branch) is to contact the author of the object. If you do not get a response, let use know and we can help track them down.

Regards,

Mike T

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