topic Re: Undocumented property panel components? in Integration, Extension & APIs

Undocumented property panel components?

devan9876 — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 00:42:37 GMT

The native Qlik objects utilize property panel components that don’t seem to be on the main documentation page. For example, searchable drop down (example button selector), color scheme selector and a side popup window for extra styling options.

Is there any way for those to be used within extensions or for developers to create custom property components?

Color scheme selctorStyle side side panel menuSearchable drop down with icons

Re: Undocumented property panel components?

Damien_V — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 15:57:59 GMT

Hello @devan9876

Not sure if that helps you or not, but part of those are documented in here, but some are still tagged as experimental:

https://qlik.dev/apis/javascript/extensions#%23%2Fdefinitions%2FPP

Re: Undocumented property panel components?

devan9876 — Sat, 20 Feb 2021 18:24:04 GMT

Thanks for the response, but I don't think that helps. I am not seeing where the components I mentioned are listed there. For example your link mentions a dropdown, but that is not the same as the drop down I showed in the screenshot where you can includes icons in the dropdown list. You link also lists a color picker but again it is not the same as what I included in my screenshot which is a color scheme selector. So it seems like the native Qlik objects have certain property panel components that have not been documented for extensions developers yet.

Re: Undocumented property panel components?

Damien_V — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 07:50:19 GMT

Thank you for checking @devan9876

I can confirm that those are not documented, so not provided as public APIs.

I wouldn't recommend trying to use them, as those properties not provided as public APIs are not "locked" and can be changed without any prior notice by Qlik R&D between two versions.

Re: Undocumented property panel components?

devan9876 — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 14:47:51 GMT

Thanks for confirming.

Do you think it's likely they could be added to the public api in the future? I especially think the searchable drop down component would be helpful for things like selecting a variable or sheet name in an extension which is also how Qlik has used it in some of the native objects i.e the button object.