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Deprecation Notice – Qlik Sense Widgets and Custom Components FAQ

Jamie_Gregory — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 16:22:56 GMT

Announcing the formal deprecation for Qlik Sense Widgets and Custom Components. This is effective for all editions of Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows (client-managed editions). Similar or enhanced functionality of widgets are now offered through the Dashboard and Visualization bundles!

Environment:

FAQ:

When will this happen?

Widgets and Custom Components will be removed when the Qlik Sense August 2021 release achieves general availability.

Will it be fully removed from the platform?

Yes.

Will my widgets and custom components continue to work?

The last release widgets functionality is part of client-managed editions of Qlik Sense (Qlik Sense on Windows) is May 2021. Creating new widgets, editing existing widgets, and widget use will no longer be supported in Qlik Sense on Windows beginning with the August 2021 release.

Will widgets and custom components become available in SaaS editions of Qlik Sense?

No.

Are widgets being replaced with new capabilities?

Many of the benefits from widgets are now offered out of the box in Qlik Sense! Proceed to the Dashboard and Extension bundles within the Assets Panel. Here, you’ll find objects such as Multi KPI Chart, Variable input controls, sliders, action buttons, and more.

These Extension Bundles are now offered within the platform and supported by Qlik R&D through future releases.

Is there a way to convert my widgets to visualization extensions?

Unfortunately, there is not a way to transpile syntax used in widget development into JavaScript. We recommend replacing deprecated controls with the native controls found within the platform.

Re: Deprecation Notice – Qlik Sense Widgets and Custom Components FAQ

simonaubert — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 05:55:18 GMT

Hello @Jamie_Gregory

I have found some widgets on my customer server but no one knows where it is used (maybe in a mashup, not sure). How can we retrieve this information?

Best regards,

Simon

Re: Deprecation Notice – Qlik Sense Widgets and Custom Components FAQ

rzenere_avvale — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 08:27:50 GMT

Hey there @simonaubert ,
I don't know how to retrieve the extension usage information for mashups. However, if the object is used into a QS application, you should be able to see it from QS Extension Usage Dashboard

I hope this helps,
Riccardo

Re: Deprecation Notice – Qlik Sense Widgets and Custom Components FAQ

dialpemo1 — Mon, 26 Jul 2021 08:17:54 GMT

By custom components that this apply to all extensions too ? or only widgets ?

Re: Deprecation Notice – Qlik Sense Widgets and Custom Components FAQ

Sonja_Bauernfeind — Mon, 26 Jul 2021 10:07:22 GMT

Hello @dialpemo1

Visualisation Extensions are not affected by this. See Widgets and extensions for what remains and what has been deprecated.

Re: Deprecation Notice – Qlik Sense Widgets and Custom Components FAQ

jakob_rasmussen — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 06:59:52 GMT

Hi team,

There's not a single word mentioning removal of widgets in the release notes of August 2021. I admit not reading this blog on regular basis, because we normally rely on your release notes to assess how new upgrades will impact our platforms. Feb 2021 release notes state
"Widget support is deprecated and will be removed in a future release."

It would have been nice to actually find out in the release notes that the "future release" was now.

@Jamie_Gregory

Re: Deprecation Notice – Qlik Sense Widgets and Custom Components FAQ

Jamie_Gregory — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 16:09:23 GMT

@jakob_rasmussen Thank you for letting us know! I have followed up with the team to let them know for the future.

Re: Deprecation Notice – Qlik Sense Widgets and Custom Components FAQ

jakob_rasmussen — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 12:05:05 GMT

@Jamie_Gregory Thanks. The link share button is removed from the Dashboard bundle as well. It's mentioned on the help page, but nowhere else. It makes it quite difficult to perform an upgrade when you have to take into account that any extension from the bundles can be removed without notice.

Re: Deprecation Notice – Qlik Sense Widgets and Custom Components FAQ

Rodj — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 05:05:26 GMT

I think this is pretty poor. There's no way to create a simple highly configurable label (i.e, set via an expression, colour my font and background as I want etc) that I can make fit nicely to a range of presentations. It's the simplest of widgets and makes a huge improvement to presentation yet there's nothing in any of the extension packs that does this. Very frustrating that this functionality is going away.

Re: Deprecation Notice – Qlik Sense Widgets and Custom Components FAQ

Cat_db01 — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 10:14:24 GMT

@Rodj I agree , this is very poor. Widgets have been great to do some simple visualization changes, eg we have that just creates a Line , not available in any extensions but very useful.

@Jamie_Gregory You can't just say 'Many of the benefits from widgets are now offered out of the box in Qlik Sense! Proceed to the Dashboard and Extension bundles within the Assets Panel. Here, you’ll find objects such as Multi KPI Chart, Variable input controls, sliders, action buttons, and more.' when you don't know what people are doing with widgets. People created the widgets precisely because that functionality is not there.

Re: Deprecation Notice – Qlik Sense Widgets and Custom Components FAQ

Jamie_Gregory — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 16:37:22 GMT

@Cat_db01 If there is anything you are looking for in particular but do not see, please try posting in the Qlik Sense Integrations, Extension & API forum for assistance. If there is something that you believe is missing, please add it to Ideation for our Product Managers to review and possibly add to the product.

Re: Deprecation Notice – Qlik Sense Widgets and Custom Components FAQ

Rodj — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 21:25:22 GMT

@Jamie_Gregory getting permission to use widgets in a secure environment was hard enough, but getting permission for extensions is nigh-on impossible. I could code the widget I need in 10 minutes and it's laughable that the simple label I'm talking about isn't available anywhere in the supplied objects or bundles and requires an extension now.

Re: Deprecation Notice – Qlik Sense Widgets and Custom Components FAQ

Jamie_Gregory — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 19:10:20 GMT

@Rodj I encourage you to use Ideation to see if it's something that could get added! Our Product Managers are very responsive!

Re: Deprecation Notice – Qlik Sense Widgets and Custom Components FAQ

ExtensionMaster — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 09:27:40 GMT

If you have specific customization needs, this was probably helpfull to you and Qlik will not help.

I can help you to transform your widget to extension, drop me a message if you need.

Re: Deprecation Notice – Qlik Sense Widgets and Custom Components FAQ

Scott2 — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 07:42:31 GMT

Hi @Jamie_Gregory

I am trying to pass the date entered by the user from QlikSense Custom Object "date picker" on GUI into an expression. I found this very lightweight widget https://github.com/NickAkincilar/QlikDatePickerWidget which would have worked perfectly but i see widgets have since been deprecated which is a really disappointing move by Qlik as they were clearly very useful as per the other comments above.

This is really basic functionality but I don't see it available in an extension and "ideation" seems to be closed to new requests presumably as it has a large backlog already.

Re: Deprecation Notice – Qlik Sense Widgets and Custom Components FAQ

Sonja_Bauernfeind — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 07:48:12 GMT

Hello @Scott2

Please post about your query in the appropriate forum (Integration, Extension & API), where our active user base can help you find a solution to your requirement.

As for ideas, ideation has not been shut down, it has, however, been moved to a different tool if you had bookmarked the old version: Ideation

All the best,
Sonja

Re: Deprecation Notice – Qlik Sense Widgets and Custom Components FAQ

Scott2 — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 08:31:19 GMT

Hi @Sonja_Bauernfeind

thanks for your reply. Can i also check with you that the leonardo-ui open source library can still be used within extensions and was not also deprecated along with widgets?

It is marked as experimental here rather than deprecated so I assume that is the case https://help.qlik.com/en-US/sense-developer/May2023/Subsystems/APIs/Content/Sense_ClientAPIs/leonardo-ui/leonardoui-introduction.htm

thanks!

Re: Deprecation Notice – Qlik Sense Widgets and Custom Components FAQ

Sonja_Bauernfeind — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 08:37:29 GMT

Hello @Scott2

If it is not marked as deprecated and instead as experimental, then experimental it will be!