topic Re: Qlik Sense Mash-Up API Tutorials in Integration, Extension & APIs

Qlik Sense Mash-Up API Tutorials

Brian_Munz — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 20:20:11 GMT

Hi everyone,

I've created a series of tutorials around the basic functions of the Qlik Mash-up APIs. Hopefully the tutorials will be able to get people up and running in creating web sites and applications using this API.

There will be some blog posts on Branch coming soon with more details and tutorials, but I wanted to make these available now.

The posts reference some code samples on Qlik Branch here:

http://branch.qlik.com/projects/showthread.php?308-Sample-Code-for-Mash-up-API-basics

The videos can be found here:

Part 1: Getting Set Up - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffyZy7RlSoE

Part 2: Embedding Objects - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzzsynxIUMM

Part 3: Connecting to Fields - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqGwrGhlW-I

Part 4: Creating HyperCubes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDbDbkc22Ds

Thanks, hopefully they'll be helpful for learning how to use this API.

Re: Qlik Sense Mash-Up API Tutorials

flipside — Thu, 06 Nov 2014 15:42:02 GMT

These are great, Brian, but on Part 3 whenever I get to the stage of adding the app.createlist function, when I save or even just try viewing the changes, my js file gets overwritten and I'm left with just ...

/*global require

;

It doesn't matter if I drop the file in or edit it in workbench editor, the result is the same.

Any ideas? I think I encountered another similar issue when playing with extensions earlier this year and gave up.

flipside

Re: Qlik Sense Mash-Up API Tutorials

Brian_Munz — Thu, 06 Nov 2014 18:55:10 GMT

That was happening for me, yes, but only while coding in the workbench editor. I think its a bug.

But, if I got to the file by going to the folder itself, it worked fine. If you open the file in a text editor and save it should work.

Re: Qlik Sense Mash-Up API Tutorials

flipside — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 14:01:20 GMT

Ahh, I need to avoid going into the editor and using View and instead use the Show option from the popup in the Workbench home page, yes that works! Thanks.

Re: Qlik Sense Mash-Up API Tutorials

danielrozental — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 15:42:37 GMT

Sorry, I must be doing something wrong but I don't get the workbench site at http://localhost:4848/workbench

I get a blank screen, localhost 4848 does establish a connection on telnet.

Re: Qlik Sense Mash-Up API Tutorials

Josh_Good — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 23:46:14 GMT

Do you have Qlik Sense Desktop installed and running before going to http://localhost:4848/workbench?

Re: Qlik Sense Mash-Up API Tutorials

danielrozental — Sat, 08 Nov 2014 12:31:34 GMT

Yes Josh, I do.

Here's the response I'm getting

Thanks

Re: Qlik Sense Mash-Up API Tutorials

Josh_Good — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 13:35:29 GMT

HI Daniel,

Are you able to get to the Qlik Sense Desktop Hub from your web browser (http://localhost:4848/hub/my/work)? Also, can you confirm which version of Qlik Sense Desktop you are using?

Josh

Qlik

Re: Qlik Sense Mash-Up API Tutorials

danielrozental — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 13:40:24 GMT

Sorry, I was using version 0.96.0, I've updated to version 1.0.0 and it works fine now.

Thanks for your help Josh.

Re: Qlik Sense Mash-Up API Tutorials

Josh_Good — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 13:42:10 GMT

Glad to hear you got it working. Daniel.

-Josh

Re: Qlik Sense Mash-Up API Tutorials

Brian_Munz — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 23:45:15 GMT

Yeah, between that version and the latest it changed from workbencheditor to workbench.

Re: Qlik Sense Mash-Up API Tutorials

Thu, 23 Apr 2015 14:53:47 GMT

Hi Brian

I've got a quick question. Is it possible to use 1 dimension and 2 measurements in a hypercube?

Right now I can catch the data of 1 dimension in an array and the data of 1 measurement in an array.

So I can display a chart with 1 measurement. I'm actually looking for a way to display a chart of charts.js with multiple measurements. Maybe there are other ways to do this?

Robbe

Re: Qlik Sense Mash-Up API Tutorials

Alexander_Thor — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 22:25:59 GMT

Hey Robbe,

Sure you would just add another measure definition to your measures array.

Stubbed out a definition below that is pretty barebones.

"qMeasures": [
   "qLibraryId": "",
   "qSortBy": {
     "qSortByNumeric": 1
     }
   },
   "qDef": {
     "qLabel": "Measure 1",
     "qGrouping": "N",
     "qDef": "=Sum(Field1)"
   },
   "qLibraryId": "",
   "qSortBy": {
     "qSortByNumeric": 1
     }
   },
   "qDef": {
     "qLabel": "Measure 2",
     "qGrouping": "N",
     "qDef": "=Sum(Field2)"
   }
}]

As you know have added a new column to the data that is returned to you make sure the InitialDataFetch now has a width property that equals the amount of columns in the hypercube, in this case 3.

Re: Qlik Sense Mash-Up API Tutorials

Thu, 30 Apr 2015 11:11:59 GMT

Hello Brian,

In the very first tutorial you say workbench is not as complicated and intensive as using the Engine API but it can do most of what you'd want to do in a web application.

Could you please explain what are the limitations of using the workbench. Specifically I'm thinking of making a small "web application" that would communicate through a RESTful api (both GET and POST) with our server.

/Regards.

PS: here's what I'm thinking we could try to do. Instead of using Qlik sense default workflow/GUI to load new CSV files we'd rather get a list of files from the server, load some, and depending on the user's interactions (selections) with Qlik Sense other CSV files are loaded-in and so on. Having our own app serving those files (CSV or some other format) allows us to alter those files/streams on the fly to accommodate the user's intent.

Re: Qlik Sense Mash-Up API Tutorials

Anonymous — Tue, 12 May 2015 14:28:20 GMT

Inspiring post Brian, many thanks for taking time to share.

Re: Qlik Sense Mash-Up API Tutorials

Sun, 16 Aug 2015 14:20:03 GMT

I tried to do the mashup steps

and I get the foloying error when I tried to view mashup, what to do? its in sense enterprise

Re: Qlik Sense Mash-Up API Tutorials

ErikWetterberg — Mon, 17 Aug 2015 06:27:44 GMT

The most likely reason for this is that the app id is not correct, when you deploy to server you need to update your mashup with sthe server app id (a GUID).

Erik

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Re: Qlik Sense Mash-Up API Tutorials

Wed, 19 Aug 2015 14:21:46 GMT

Hi, TY,

the error messsage display when I clik view/edit the new template, I didnt pass to define app ID

Re: Qlik Sense Mash-Up API Tutorials

Wed, 19 Aug 2015 14:25:13 GMT

more screen shoots

Re: Qlik Sense Mash-Up API Tutorials

Thu, 20 Aug 2015 08:31:05 GMT

I open a new mashup and its ok now