topic Re: QlikSense - Sheet thumbnail issue in App Development

QlikSense - Sheet thumbnail issue

Thu, 07 May 2015 18:47:01 GMT

This is in regards to QlikSense. Please see attached for screenshots. I am wondering if there is a way that the Sheet thumbnails in the "Everyone" stream (or any other stream that gets published to) can show the dynamically generated thumbnail image that basically mimmicks what objects are on that sheet. From what I can tell this thumbnail only exists in the "My Work" stream (unpublished environment) but does not propagate to published streams. Thanks.

Re: QlikSense - Sheet thumbnail issue

sarahplymale — Thu, 03 Dec 2015 18:45:03 GMT

Did you get an answer? I have the same question.

Re: QlikSense - Sheet thumbnail issue

Fri, 04 Dec 2015 15:01:01 GMT

No I have not, so at this time I'm assuming the functionality doesn't exist.

Re: QlikSense - Sheet thumbnail issue

gwoodard — Mon, 13 Jun 2016 20:30:32 GMT

This is also of interest to me if anyone has a solution.

Re: QlikSense - Sheet thumbnail issue

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Jun 2016 23:20:01 GMT

I have not found a system option so what I did was took screenshots of the images added them to the image library and used them as the thumbnail on the published versions. It's a bit fiddly but unless you are creating a lot of published apps all the time it is manageable.

Re: QlikSense - Sheet thumbnail issue

mountaindude — Sun, 27 Jun 2021 20:44:58 GMT

Check out Butler Sheet Icons, which is an open source tool that I released a beta version of the other day.

It's a command line tool that automates the process of creating sheet thumbnails based on the actual layout of each sheet.
The tool basically takes a screen shot of each sheet, uploads the images to a content library and finally set the sheet icons using those uploaded images.

The tool is currently in beta version but works pretty well. Feedback appreciated!

https://github.com/ptarmiganlabs/butler-sheet-icons