Here's a list of CSS modifications that used to be common, but no longer are necessary as there are styling settings and other functions that are easier to use and maintain.
CSS Modification
Area
How to do instead
Add sheet background color and image.
Sheet
Use the sheet styling property.
Remove the sheet title.
Sheet
Use the app UI settings.
Remove the toolbar.
Sheet
Use the app UI settings.
Hide the buttons in the pivot table.
Pivot
Use the new pivot table.
Change the null color in the table.
Table
Use the null value styling settings in the new tables.
Pajama stripes in the table
Table
Use the zebra stripe styling setting in the new table.
Chart background color and image
Chart
Use the chart styling settings.
Chart border and shadow, color, radius and size.
Chart
Use the chart styling settings.
Change font family, weight, color and size.
Chart
Use the chart styling settings.
Change selection bar colors.
App
Use theme styling properties.
Hide popup buttons.
Chart
Turn off in app settings or per chart in chart settings.
I get an idea on what's coming by reading this post by @Patric_Nordstrom., but could someone please add a link to a post that explains what's coming and when?
At first I understood this as a nice tricks and tips post, then I found that the Multi KPI will be discontinue, but reading the comments I now get the feeling that the change includes any type of custom CSS modifications, including custom themes (?)
I would really appreciate a link to an "official" Qlik statement about this in form of a blog post, forum thread or other.
We need custom CSS. Although this is not used a lot (in my case) I have quite a few clients that demands this.
If needed I can drop some CSS code here that we cannot do with native Qlik capabilities.
Its already a massive (additional work and additional hours the client has to pay to move the Multi KPI to KPI and Layout containers) which the client didn't ask for now we need to tell them we are losing the CSS stuff too.... We need an alternative.
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Injecting CSS at the sheet level—whether through multi-KPI or other means—is absolutely essential given how severely Qlik falls short on basic visual customization. We have clients whose entire user experience depends on the custom CSS we've implemented using both Themes and multi-KPI objects. Stripping away this capability would be a drastic regression and a serious blow to the platform’s flexibility and user satisfaction.
I would recommend to use a custom theme and import the font, then you can use the font directly by picking the font in a drop down in the font picker for the table.
Themes are not affected by the retirement of the Multi KPI, no changes there. The new stylings settings should also be available as them settings, that's the intention.
Yes, that's the downside of CSS modifications, have to be able to react to changes.
Yes, we hope to introduce UI settings on app level for all charts, or all bar charts etc, stay tuned.
It definitely sounds like there needs to be a CSS option to replace Multi KPI... I don't think there's ever going to be enough functionality built in to replace every single reasonable use case.
