topic Re: Custom Pop up message on Opening Qliksense App in App Development

Custom Pop up message on Opening Qliksense App

praveen94 — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 18:35:57 GMT

HI All,

I am trying to create a pop up message on opening the QlikSense App. For example,if a particular KPI is above a limit,then a message should pop up when the user opens the app in the hub.

I have achieved this in Qlikview using Alerts Wizard but I am not sure how to do this in Qliksense. Is there any inbuilt feature or custom written code I can use to build this feature. Thanks in advance for the help.

Re: Custom Pop up message on Opening Qliksense App

kaushiknsolanki — Sat, 23 May 2020 17:24:55 GMT

Hi There is no default functionality in Qlik Sense.

You should look at the add on product i.e Qlik Alerting to generate Alerts.

Re: Custom Pop up message on Opening Qliksense App

praveen94 — Sun, 24 May 2020 13:20:55 GMT

Thanks Kaushik. I did look at the functionaity and as per my understanding, it uses email to alert the users. My requirement is to show a pop up message in the browser once the qliksense app is opened. Say like 'Welcome User xx . Daily metric is yy value' based on the written expression.I saw a post where the developer has used custom extension to create pop up messages on charts on clicking the icon. I am looking for the same but at the app overview level

Re: Custom Pop up message on Opening Qliksense App

ArnadoSandoval — Mon, 25 May 2020 04:51:46 GMT

Hi @praveen94

Have you consider the Default Bookmark functionality, there was a lot of comments at this Topic

hth

Re: Custom Pop up message on Opening Qliksense App

ArnadoSandoval — Tue, 26 May 2020 02:49:22 GMT

@praveen94

I just authored an extension: PopupMessage that could do what your want to achieve, you are the first person taking a look at it, so your feedback is highly appreciated, the extension is not fully develop yet as I explain below:

You have two define some properties in the extension's Message Settings, like: Content Object, Limit Expression, Width, Hight (a typo to be fixed with Height), Show Prompt and Prompt Label.
You have to press the message "Press Me" in order to get the pop-up message; we do not have a clear set of rule to automatically show the popup message.

The attached zip file contains this extension, just install it in your environment following the known procedure.

The object to be displayed in the popup message is one and only one available on the current Sheet, you need its ID or source location, you get that information by right-click on the object and select the </> Embed Chart option (see screenshot); at the bottom of the next screen you will find the Iframe web code, with a big green Copy button, just copy the Iframe web code and paste that code in your favorite text editor.

Copy the IFrame code

Now, with the extension "Popup Message" already on the sheet, paste that long string (we need the string after the src=, excluding the double quotes) into its Content Object parameter, which is the first one of the parameters. Next you need to enter the Limit Expression, which is any valid expression, the logic applying the Limit Expression is not included in the extension, but it is getting the result, so it will not be a big drama to implement.

This is how the popup looks like:

There are few things I need to continue the implementation of this extension, I am listing them below:

What are the rules to popup the message? The Limit Condition will be true for a while, and eachtime somebody visit the Sheet the message will popup, that will be annoying! What are your thoughts
I am using Qlik Sense Desktop, so I do not have access to security resources to drive the presentation of the popup message.
Suggestions are welcome.

I will post an update in two days, I am also creating its GitHub page!

Hope this helps,

Re: Custom Pop up message on Opening Qliksense App

ArnadoSandoval — Tue, 26 May 2020 04:36:16 GMT

@praveen94

I enhanced the Extension a little bit more, the spelling mistake is gone, it is now automatically popping up the message which is annoying as we do not have any rule to stop the message from popping! there are a couple of things found while fine tuning the extension!

The Limit Expression must be an expression, it should return true or false; or 1 (for true) or 0 (for false), it could be something like = If(<expression>, 1, 0) or =<expression>
The Show Prompt should be unchecked for the automatic message to popup.

Attached is the latest version!

Re: Custom Pop up message on Opening Qliksense App

anushahegde — Thu, 28 May 2020 11:01:12 GMT

Hi Arnaldo,

I have a very similar requirement in my project where I need to display a pop up automatically when the user opens the app with some text message based on some condition and there should be a close button to close it.

I tried your extension and it is what my project is looking for. However, I see that we cant display a simple text in the pop up. Content object has to be a URL. When the show prompt is unchecked the pop up appears automatically, that's what I need but can we have a close button to close the pop up or what can we do to close it?

Could you please help me with this?

Regards

Anusha

Re: Custom Pop up message on Opening Qliksense App

ArnadoSandoval — Thu, 28 May 2020 13:03:02 GMT

Thanks @anushahegde for your feedback!

Your suggestions are great ideas, I am actually working on the Extension, It will allow a text message as well as the URL, the initial idea come from this thread where they want to show a KPI object, I should post a new version in the next 24 hours!

Regards,

Re: Custom Pop up message on Opening Qliksense App

anushahegde — Thu, 28 May 2020 13:11:08 GMT

Great. I'm waiting on this.

Re: Custom Pop up message on Opening Qliksense App

ArnadoSandoval — Fri, 29 May 2020 09:04:02 GMT

@anushahegde

Just an update, I experiencing difficulties triggering a popup windows without the <iframe>, as this token allows a reload, I am just trying to figure out how to hide the <iframe> but web pages does not allow to do that easily.

hth

Re: Custom Pop up message on Opening Qliksense App

ArnadoSandoval — Sun, 31 May 2020 09:21:24 GMT

Hi @anushahegde

I am having a lot of fun writing this extension, I reach a point where I like the way it is turning out; these are the features you will find out:

It can display a sheet's object or plain popup message.
You have to define the Limit Expression or rule that will trigger the popup message.
You also provide the KPI expression (because somehow the extension needs to know that the KPI did not change so it will not trigger the popup message)
It record and return back to the application the Previous KPI and the time stamp of the last check!
There are two flavours of popup messages: Basic and Modal
The Modal style allows you to define: Header-Body-Footer (Header-Context-Footer> sections
The Header and Footer messages are optional.
You can configure the foreground and background colours of the Header and Footer sections.
There is a final section set of parameters to enter the text of some default messages (the idea is when the extension is installed in non-English speaking countries, the user can customize these messages to their native language)
You will need to define local variables to save the Previous KPI and the Last Check.

The extension is still work in progress, but you are welcome to unit test it and write back to this topic any suggestion for improvements or glitches or bugs you could find; my intention is to publish this extension into GitHub and Qlik Branch once it is complete.

These are some screenshots:

This is the Modal style, it accept multi-line text but with some trickery, like the text shown above was entered with this expression:

=' This is my custom message!This is line two '

You enclose the text between the HTML tags  , while the tag   introduce a blank line.

The Extension has 4 blocks of parameters (feel free to suggest if they are well organized)

The Content Object could be empty in this version; there are two new fields here, the Previous KPI and Last Check variables, you have to define them either on the script or on the UI (I prefer this way).

This section define the text for the Header-Body-Footer and allow us to assign colours to them (except the body, which is always black letter on white background) I do not like the idea of allowing header-footer with different colours.

Here is where you chose the rendering style (basic or modal); and enable-disable the prompt, beside of assigning the popup message width and height (note, I am not happy with the basic form, It most likely will be replaced with a Modal without header-footer.

This section if for non-English speaking users consuming this extension, they can customize the extension's message to their language.

These text boxes show the information returned by the extension!

Please let me know how you feel the extension is performing; I haven't test multi-sheet applications with the extension on each sheet either.

Have fun playing around with the extension and your feedback is welcome and appreciated!

The extension is attached, please remove your current version, from the application you tried it as well as the extension folder.

Regards,

Re: Custom Pop up message on Opening Qliksense App

ArnadoSandoval — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 13:00:46 GMT

@anushahegde

I attached the latest version of the PopupMessage extension, it fixed some issues rendering the messages! My unit tests uncover very few errors, so it is becoming very stable; this is version 1.0.4

Regards,

Re: Custom Pop up message on Opening Qliksense App

jaspsing — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:49:58 GMT

Hello All,

If anyone looking for QlikSense Custom Popup then you can try this:

Share your comments and in future can modify for any bug.

https://github.com/jaspsing21/Qlik/

https://github.com/jaspsing21/Qlik/blob/main/README.md

Thanks,

Jaspal