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Qlik sense intellisense - less the "intelli"

markp201 — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 15:12:24 GMT

Just lose this feature. One of the biggest pains. Just about every IDE gives the ability to turn this OFF.

Also, why default to CamelCase on keywords ??? Look awful and makes reading scripts a pain

Just turn it all off and let me do my work.

Re: Qlik sense intellisense - less the "intelli"

tmackay2015 — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 23:14:05 GMT

or at least not not trigger after hitting ';'

and maybe also not include unsupported features like inputfield

or unimplmented call structures...

Re: Qlik sense intellisense - less the "intelli"

John_Teichman — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 09:08:50 GMT

I agree. PLEASE let me turn this off.

Re: Qlik sense intellisense - less the "intelli" - Status changed to: Open - Collecting Feedback

Patric_Nordstrom — Wed, 22 Apr 2020 07:54:14 GMT

Thank you for your feedback on ways to improve our product. While this is something we understand would be useful, it's not on the short-term roadmap. Please continue to show your support for this idea.

Thanks,

Patric

Re: Qlik sense intellisense - less the "intelli"

pedrobergo — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 12:55:30 GMT

Please, after one year... just let me turn off these "no"-Intellisense feature !!!

Re: Qlik sense intellisense - less the "intelli"

John_Teichman — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 13:26:37 GMT

@pedrobergo - I feel your frustration on a daily basis. I love your avatar!

Re: Qlik sense intellisense - less the "intelli"

pgambone — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 19:20:28 GMT

Seems like this would be a simple fix - I'm wearing out my escape key constantly exiting the Intellisense popups.

Re: Qlik sense intellisense - less the "intelli"

chriscammers — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 14:40:50 GMT

Sigh, I would love to be able to toggle the intellisense. I do like having it there but sometimes the help is not helpful.

Thanks

Re: Qlik sense intellisense - less the "intelli"

WouQui_ — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 09:56:41 GMT

Please make it optional, thx.

Re: Qlik sense intellisense - less the "intelli"

squeakie_pig — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 11:18:15 GMT

It would be fantastic to have the functionality to disable this.

It is lovely that Qlik is trying to enhance their product so it is more friendly to non-IT users, but for anyone with a dev background it is an absolute nightmare. While any load script code can be outsourced to notepad++ or other text editors, the intellisense popup in the expression editor is awful and painful to use.

Re: Qlik sense intellisense - less the "intelli"

KingsleyJH — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 04:15:27 GMT

Its not that the Intellisense is all that bad. The problem is it constantly pops up (even on something that doesn't make sense, like a ";") and when you try indent with tab, or try click enter for a new line, it automatically inputs the first item on the auto complete list. Just let the default of intellisense be blank so what I type is what I get as a first priority. If I see the option / autocomplete value I want, I'd rather click the down arrow and navigate to it.

That would be first prize, but Qlik, please just make an option to disable it for now. Surely this isn't too difficult to implement? Can we get this in the interim so we can code faster? You can refine it in 3 years in 3 years, its fine. But keep your consultants happy and working faster. This is such a time waster and every consultant can agree

Re: Qlik sense intellisense - less the "intelli"

dgreene40011 — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 21:03:17 GMT

Long time QlikView developer and relatively new to Qlik Sense - this "feature" drives me crazy. Especially at the end of rows when I press ";".

Please give us the option to disable. Why is this not on the roadmap?

Re: Qlik sense intellisense - less the "intelli"

fzalexanderjohn — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 13:05:59 GMT

I agree. It is often more than an annoyance than a help.

Re: Qlik sense intellisense - less the "intelli"

stephenfr — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 09:05:39 GMT

I agree, I find this feature utterly annoying. Constantly having to cancel or undo the inserted suggestions.

People have been complaining about this since 2016!

It's really time that you allow developers to simply turn it off, or at least explain us how we can break this function in the browser ourselves.

Please fix this, it should not be that hard and would make a lot of developers very happy.

Re: Qlik sense intellisense - less the "intelli"

KingsleyJH — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 09:22:36 GMT

Phase 1: let us disable this feature completely

Phase 2: allow us to choose what prompts we want. Examples:

A: No one wants a prompt after ';' - this makes no sense

B: Allow us to choose if the suggestions are all lower case or camel case or upper case.

C: Allow us to choose if we want a word completion prompt or an intellisense prompt (eg, we have already typed 'Load' but then get a prompt for distinct).

I think most devs will agree with me when I say, we just want an autocomplete for singular words to make sure we type field names, table names and functions correctly (and view the syntax of the function so we know how to use it). Other than that, I think we'll be fine

Re: Qlik sense intellisense - less the "intelli"

SchalkF — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 06:40:13 GMT

I am not sure if someone has mentioned this already, but can it not be set to only populate the intellisense when you press Tab?

When I press Enter to go to the next line, I don't want to populate the rest of the row with the intellisense. I see a lot of people suggesting to not activate intellisense after ';', but just switch it to not use Enter, but rather only when Tab is clicked.

Re: Qlik sense intellisense - less the "intelli"

gramqlik — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 11:13:51 GMT

The autocomplete pop-up in the DLE is a huge annoyance, and in many situations, not just after semicolons.

It's especially prevalent with nested functions. You can be typing / editing one line of code and autocomplete boxes might pop up 8 times. A helpful feature that is so pervasive it has become a hindrance.

You can try to power through, ignoring the frequent pop-ups and continue typing, of course, but this doesn't help when you're editing multiple lines of code, navigating between lines with the arrow keys, you end up moving through the autocomplete options instead, so you have to hit Escape on every line before you can move on.

Worse still is hitting Enter to move to a new line and inadvertently inserting the first autocomplete option, which then has to be deleted.

I also hate the default CamelCase for functions etc. Our standard is to write all code language (functions, operators, conditions, keywords) in UPPERCASE and field names in CamelCase or [Title Case], so if I ever do use the autocomplete feature functions etc., I then have to go back and edit them to UPPERCASE anyway...

Whilst on screen, the autocomplete box also obscures the code directly above, so it's often necessary to hit Escape, just to see your preceding lines of code.

There's also a similar annoyance in the Expression editor. When you're trying to write complex set analysis and half of it is covered up with a syntax tooltip. There, you have to hit Alt instead of Escape, so there isn't even a consistent way to hide Qlik's pop-up items. Hitting Escape there closes the editor, so you if you're not careful, you lose your work. And why does the info box at the bottom need to take up a third of the screen? (yes, I know you can contract it so you just see "OK", but please can we have an option to do this by default?).

These issues have been plaguing us ever since we got Qlik Sense, and they've apparently existed for the last 7 years with no official fix!

PLEASE provide an official option to switch off intellisense (even if it's just per session and we must click an enable/disable toggle button in the DLE and Expression Editor). Better yet, move the autocomplete suggestions to a right-click menu. And if you could allow us to choose our own preferred case for functions etc., that would be great, especially if we could apply it as a global default, to help standardise the code written by all of our developers...

Just found this partial Workaround for disabling Intellisense in the Data Load Editor (advice from 3 years ago!) :

* In the DLE window, append /debug/dle_safe_mode to the end of your URL

From this thread:

https://community.qlik.com/t5/New-to-Qlik-Sense/Turn-off-Intellisense-Syntax-Help-in-Qlik-Sense/td-p/939279

We shouldn't have to resort to safe mode, but this will at least reduce my stress in the meantime!

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