article Introducing: The GINQO Master Item Manager in Qlik Sense Documents

Introducing: The GINQO Master Item Manager

maxwell_marchand — Thu, 18 Apr 2019 16:08:13 GMT

Managing Master items can be time consuming. Master Items can also become difficult to maintain and validate as more are created, risking consistency in your development. To solve this issue we created the GINQO Master Item Manager to help you work more efficiently with Master Items.

Try our new Master Item Manager extension (https://github.com/GINQO/Master-Item-Manager) and we look forward to to hear your comments, feedback here!

What is it?

The GINQO Master Item Manager (MIM) is a simple utility tool meant for creating, updating, or deleting Master Items based on an Excel file. That Excel file can be used to define the Master Items across multiple applications.
The MIM can also be useful for exporting Master Items into an Excel file for review/validation.
After adding Master Items to a template file, you are able to reuse them among other Sense apps
From a table object, you can decide which Master Items you want to be added to your Qlik Sense applications.
Using Qlik's associative engine, Master Items can be organized into your application by means of tags, name, descriptions, etc.

Why was it built?

The Qlik Governed Metrics Service (https://developer.qlik.com/garden/57655702febb2ca54e7149d2😞

has not been further developed and is not working for the latest Qlik Sense releases
It requires installation of additional software and might not meet the security requirements in your environment

Master Items are slow to create but are frequently reused
Some customers use the same data sources, meaning same metrics
Customers have requested this feature to manage Master Items themselves
Occasionally you might create duplicate Master Items and be unaware of it.

Who is it for?

Developers who are reusing Master Items across multiple applications
Customers who want more control over their QS environment

Re: Introducing: The GINQO Master Item Manager

mr_barriesmith — Thu, 24 Jan 2019 11:02:09 GMT

Thank you. Are you planning to join Trusted Extension Developers?

Re: Introducing: The GINQO Master Item Manager

IQ0 — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 12:11:06 GMT

Newlines in Master Items fields are not parsed correctly when loading the generated CSV in Excel (this is an Excel issue). However, this issue limits the use of this Extension. It would be great if the Extention would also export to XLSX format.

Re: Introducing: The GINQO Master Item Manager

MARUn0 — Sat, 05 Mar 2022 03:52:45 GMT

You're a lifesaver. The most useful extension I've ever met. Thank you so much!

Re: Introducing: The GINQO Master Item Manager

maxwell_marchand — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 21:43:26 GMT

Thank you @MARUn0! Really appreciate that kind feedback from you.

Did you know the GINQO Master Item Manager is now working on Qlik SaaS? May be interesting if you are a SaaS user or plan to be on the saas eventually!

Regards,

Maxwell.

Re: Introducing: The GINQO Master Item Manager

bc5891 — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 11:19:10 GMT

Also, one more question. The initial upload of all the expressions works great - however, when I add a measure my steps are as follows:

- create measure in template and give it a unique ID

- refresh application

- I highlight it in the master measure table in the front end.

- I then press synchronise

When I do this is says measures were created - but nothing happens. Any thoughts on this?

Re: Introducing: The GINQO Master Item Manager

ogatchell — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 20:30:54 GMT

Thank you @MARUn0!.

After loading GINQO MIM extension, loading script and data (from Template), then using QuickTable, I select the Dimension and Measure tables as instructed followed by Get My Table!

Is GINQO expected to import Dimension and Measure data directly from the App Master items or from the Template, which has sample data?

In the process I follow, Template sample data is loaded into QuickTable.

Oliver

Re: Introducing: The GINQO Master Item Manager

vincent_ardiet_ — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 14:51:09 GMT

Thanks @maxwell_marchand for this extension I'm only discovering.
This works fine except a small bug, when importing measures, if they don't have a tag, the JS is failing.
You seem to have managed this case for the dimensions with a test:
if (typeof tags != 'undefined') {...}
Whereas for the measures, you use tagStr.length>0 which is failing.

This is also the case for the segments.
So I have added if (typeof xxx!= 'undefined') everywhere.

Re: Introducing: The GINQO Master Item Manager

Alberto-SDH — Thu, 08 May 2025 10:32:56 GMT

Hello,

Are there any alternatives to GINQO Master Item Manager?

After the last upgrade to QlikSense nov 2024 patch10 the extention started to import twice the master items.

We are looking for a different tool.

Thank you!