Developer menu in Qlik Sense client

[Francis_Kabinoff]

Did you know there's a secret developer menu in Qlik Sense? I'm going to let you in on the secret and show you how to access it and what it contains. Just remember, this isn't documented or officially supported, and is subject to change in the future.

To access the developer menu, follow the steps below:

1. Open a sheet in a Qlik Sense app in your browser
2. Add /options/developer to the url
3. Right click on an object and choose "Developer"

You can get the object id, properties, and layout of any object this way. There's also a link to open the object in single configurator, and test exporting. The object id's are useful for embedding visualizations. The properties are useful if you are creating your own objects and want to check the properties of an object in a Qlik Sense app for reference. In my opinion this is the most useful feature of the developer menu. Sometimes if I don't know the correct properties to set to achieve what I want I'll create a similar object in the Qlik Sense client just to check the properties. The layout shows what is returned by the engine for the layout of the object, and can be useful to see what the layout will look like before you actually create an object yourself. And the single configurator link is a handy way to get to the single configurator of an object directly from a sheet.

And now you know about the secret developer menu.

[pablolabbe]

Great tip

[agigliotti]

it seems doesn't works with june '18 desktop version.

[Francis_Kabinoff]

sure does work with june 18 desktop. are you accessing hub from browser? localhost:4848/hub. then go to a sheet in an app, and add the /options/developer to the url. dont forget to hit enter or whatever to actually navigate to the url

[agigliotti]

yes i did but the server says "app not found"

below the url:

http://localhost:4848/sense/app/C%3A/Users/andrea.gigliotti/Documents/Qlik/Sense/Apps/ESC%202018.qvf...

[Francis_Kabinoff]

Hmm, strange...that looks like a good url. This is an example from my June 2018 desktop that works for me, looks similar to yours.

http://localhost:4848/sense/app/C%3A%5CUsers%5Cfka%5CDocuments%5CQlik%5CSense%5CApps%5CHelpdesk%20Ma...

[ErikWetterberg]

Try encoding the slashes: change / to %5c in the app filename. You could probably also give just the filename without the path.

Erik Wetterberg

http://extendingqlik.upper88.com/

[mambi]

doesn't work for me too

[agenorcanal]

Great Tip !

[kkkumar82]

Hi Francis,

From which version of Qliksense this option is available.

[nsetty]

Developer option won't appear for me too in Google Chrome.

When I tried in Microsoft Edge - it worked for me.  Developer option appeared

Note: I am using Qlik Sense June 2018 Version.