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Anyone know how to use Google Charts (not Maps) in an extension?

Anonymous — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:26:21 GMT

Hi !

Anyone know how to use Google Charts (not Maps) in an extension? On the Google Developer site, all the examples seem to pull in the Google Javascript code in the head section of an html document. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that isn't possible here since QlikView controls what goes in the head section, and the Javascript for our extension goes in the body section. Anyone know how to get around this issue? I've found some tantalizingly close solutions for Google Maps using a callback but none for Google Charts. I'm hoping there's a very simple solution!

Thanks !

Anyone know how to use Google Charts (not Maps) in an extension?

ErikWetterberg — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 09:27:22 GMT

Hi,

You could do something like this....

Qva.LoadScript("http://www.google.com/jsapi?callback=loadGoogleCoreChart", function(){

});

function loadGoogleCoreChart(){

google.load('visualization', '1', {

packages: ['corechart'],

callback: googleCoreChartLoaded

});

}

function googleCoreChartLoaded(){

Qva.AddExtension('MyExtension', function(){

//your extension code here.....

}

Erik

Anyone know how to use Google Charts (not Maps) in an extension?

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:41:05 GMT

Wow Thanks Erik !!! We were able to get the Google Pie Chart visualization working in a QlikView extension

Anyone know how to use Google Charts (not Maps) in an extension?

ErikWetterberg — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 06:59:33 GMT

Glad it helped. Is the extensions something you would be willing to share??

Erik

Anyone know how to use Google Charts (not Maps) in an extension?

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:16:24 GMT

Well there's nothing really proprietary in it so I should be able to...I'll double check just to be sure.

Thanks again !

Anyone know how to use Google Charts (not Maps) in an extension?

brindlogcool — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:45:52 GMT

Hi Eric,

Is it possible to use this code(to access google charts API) in the text box object .So that i will be able to show the google charts in IE plugin as well.

Re: Anyone know how to use Google Charts (not Maps) in an extension?

Anonymous — Thu, 03 May 2012 21:08:29 GMT

Here's the Google Pie Chart Extension as requested by Erik !!! Enjoy

Anyone know how to use Google Charts (not Maps) in an extension?

Alexander_Thor — Sun, 06 May 2012 17:34:36 GMT

@bringlogcool

Sorry, extensions are ajax-client only. However Google do have their static chart API that you can leverage from IE Plugin if you like.

You pass a url to google and get a chart back.

Have a look at "What's new in QV11" in the Sales Overlap tab for a sample implementation.

http://eu.demo.qlik.com/QvAJAXZfc/opendoc.htm?document=qvdocs/Whats%20New%20in%20QlikView11.qvw

Anyone know how to use Google Charts (not Maps) in an extension?

brindlogcool — Mon, 07 May 2012 01:49:21 GMT

Hi Alexander ,

Thanks for your response. I agree with you. Since there are places where we cant use the Ajax client so we need to go with IE plugin we are loosing the additional functionality. I aggre since IE is activex or dll component and Ajax is HTML so extensions are supported in Ajax.

There should be other options for these integerations in IE plugin. It could be great.

Anyone know how to use Google Charts (not Maps) in an extension?

Alexander_Thor — Mon, 07 May 2012 07:20:19 GMT

Personal opinion incoming - Not associated with QlikTech.

Or we could scrap the IE-plugin completly. It's 2012 and having browser specific software is not a long term solution. In the age where users are taking more and more responsibility of their own IT-consumption in the business world forcing them to use a specific browser is not something we should endorse.

Not to mention that if we can eliminate any moving parts on the client side we can reduce support requests.

As you can guess I'm a vivid supporter of the AJAX-client and I can't belive any IT department are willing to introduce even more acticeX components in their environment.

Anyone know how to use Google Charts (not Maps) in an extension?

brindlogcool — Mon, 07 May 2012 13:39:20 GMT

I support your personal thought. It would be a great idea to have only Ajax going forward but considering it support the macros which is not currently supported by Ajax. May be they have introduced extension to get rid of IE and to support the macros in Aajx.But still not we havent seen any extension supporting supporting the export and other related stuff which was not feasible in Ajax

Any have will wait and see.What Qliktech has in future plan

Re: Anyone know how to use Google Charts (not Maps) in an extension?

Sat, 23 Jun 2012 13:54:34 GMT

Hi guys,

Thanks for this great post, by using your advice I was able to make the geomaps extension.

I added it to this post out of gratitude.

Enjoy

Re: Anyone know how to use Google Charts (not Maps) in an extension?

Anonymous — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 13:08:27 GMT

Wow awesome to hear acoppens and thanks for sharing !!!!