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Qlik Explorer for Developers (QEfD) is a tool that will let you to explore Qlik Sense content and obtain some valuable info. You can connect to a Qlik Sense server and drag and drop code snippets and IDs into whichever IDE you are using to build mashups or similar solutions.
You can learn more about QEfD here:
Qlik Explorer for Developers is here!
I mainly use QEfD for two tasks, to obtain objects ID so I can inject them into my webpage, and eventually to poke around object properties.
To copy an object ID I just connect it to my server (you can also try it with your localhost:4848 or just try out the default connection to PlayGround) and then QEfD will show me a tree-list with all the apps available on that server. From there it gets pretty simple, navigate to the object I want to incorporate into my webpage, the preview tab gets very helpful to double check you are where you want to be, and then using a template* called "id" I can copy the object’s ID.
*What’s a template: is a set of code snippets which are bound to different nodes in Qlik Sense. A node is for instance a Qlik Sense application, a sheet or an object.
Since the introduction of the Visualization API a developer can create her own charts on-the-fly, this way we become independent from the Qlik Sense client and from the visualization layer within the qvf (you don’t have to create a chart first on Sense client).
To create your own charts, you are supposed to construct the object by yourself. QEfD can be super handy here. I use it to learn, and let’s face it, to copy all JSON properties from existing objects. It makes it super easy to create some pretty advanced on-the-fly charts. It almost feels like cheating, in a good way.
If you want to download now Qlik Explorer for Developers, please do it here:
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If you want to see QEfD in action, please check out this video:
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Please note that this stand alone tool works exactly as the Qlik Analytics for Visual Studio plugin.
Enjoy it!
AMZ