The Repeat function can be used in both Qlik Sense and QlikView to repeat an input string a defined number of times. It can be used in both the script and a chart expression. This is how the Repeat function is defined in Qlik Sense Help:Repeat() forms a string consisting of the input string repeated the number of times defined by the second argument.Syntax:Repeat(text[, repeat_count])The function takes 2 arguments. The first argument is the text that you would like to repeat. This can be a single character or a combination of many characters. It can be text defined in single quotes or a field name or variable. The second argument is the repeat count which is the number of times the first argument should be repeated. In the example measure below, the text to repeat is ‘My name is Jennell.’ along with chr(13) which represents a carriage return. The second argument is 5 indicating that this input string should be repeated 5 times.Here are the results in a Text & image object:Simply enough, right? In the example, the repeat count argument was set to 5 but I also could have used a variable or a numeric field to indicate the number of times the text should be repeated. Let’s look at an example that uses Repeat in the script using field names. In the script below, I am loading an inline table with a Letter field and a Number field. In the Example table that I load, I am using the Repeat function to create the RepeatExample field which will repeat the string in the Letter field the number of times specified in the Number field.Here is a preview of the Example table once the script is executed:By using the fields, Letter and Number, for the arguments, the Repeat function is dynamic based on the data being loaded. The Repeat function is a basic, easy-to-use function that can manipulate your data. I am sure there are many other ways this function can be used. Feel free to share how you use the Repeat function.Thanks,Jennell
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Today's guest blogger is my product marketing partner, Nicole Tamms. She will be providing an update on our QlikView and Qlik Sense dual-use offer.
Over 100 Thousand Dual Users
Customers like you are adopting our new QlikView and Qlik Sense dual-use licensing at an incredible rate, since the offer was first announced by Qlik CEO Mike Capone at Qonnections 2018 in April and via press release in August.We are proud to share we’ve achieved 100 thousand licensed dual users! QlikView and Qlik Sense are better together; and dual use is the most cost-effective way to adopt Qlik Sense while maintaining your QlikView footprint. At a mere 30 percent uplift on your current annual maintenance, you can give the gift of Qlik Sense to your entire QlikView user base.
As your organization evolves and digital transformation becomes a business imperative, Qlik Sense, our modern analytics platform, may be the best fit. It supports the full spectrum of analytics use cases to meet the requirements of your evolving organization.
New dual-use customers expect Qlik Sense to provide a modern UI, faster development, ease of use, and best in class mobile support. Many have already found their QlikView data models can be directly used in Qlik Sense. Several customers have shared their plans to utilize Qlik Sense on new projects. And others have been interested in adopting Qlik Sense for a while, but budget constraints prevented them from doing so. They found the dual-use offer enabled them to acquire the licenses they needed to kick-off new projects quickly, instead of having to wait on budget.
We’d love to hear from you too. You’re invited to participate in a quick survey on your QlikView usage and interests. We want to ensure we’re heading in the right direction, speaking your language and continuing to meet your needs. Click here to participate in our 5-minute survey. The first 25 respondents will receive a free Qlik t-shirt*.
Dual use requires a QlikView November 2017 or later release. Whether or not you’re planning to adopt dual use right away, there is still tremendous value in upgrading to the latest release, QlikView November 2018. Recent releases include the latest Qlik Associative Engine, which is the same engine powering Qlik Sense; plus, advanced analytics integration, a new shared file structure, a fresh graphics library, improved security, support for non-English characters, and more found here.
For more information on the dual-use program, check out the attached datasheet and contact your local account manager.
*Only respondents located in the United States are eligible for the t-shirt giveaway. Additional rules, plus terms and conditions, can be found here.
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With 2018 coming to a close I wanted to look back on a few of the coolest things to come a developer's way from Qlik this year.Qlik Sense ThemesThemes was a feature that's been requested since Qlik Sense was first introduced, and it was delivered with Qlik Sense February 2018. Themes define the style of an app. Developers can create custom themes and apply themes to their extensions and mashups. Below are some links to resources and a few cool projects.Custom Themes Introduction- Start here to create custom themesTheme API- Theme API referenceSenseTheme- A neat tool to create a theme using a UIQlik Sense Theme: Matrix-This is necessaryPicasso.jsPicasso.js is Qlik's own open-source library for creating visualizations. It enables developers to create visualizations by simply defining scales, components, and interactions. It's totally responsive, allowing a developer to configure which parts of the visualization are shown at different sizes, it renders in svg or canvas, and it can be extended and themed.Picasso.js- Here you can find the docs, tutorials, and examplesPicasso Designer- Cool Qlik Sense extension for creating Picasso.js visualizations in Qlik SenseQlik CoreThe Qlik Associative Engine inside a Docker container. Yea, this is awesome. Add some open-source tools. Scaling and performance management with Mira. Communication with the Qlik Associative Engine with enigma.js. Simple data loading with halyard.js. And rendering visualizations with Picasso.js. Oh yea, this is definitely awesome.Qlik Core- Here you can read more about Qlik Core, find tutorials, and try it out for free
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As we continue to invest in capabilities and improve the user experience of Qlik Sense, I am pleased to introduce new navigation options in the Qlik Sense client.
Qlik Sense Cloud and Qlik Cloud Services were updated today to allow users to easily navigate between Data, Analysis, and Stories with just one click. We also have consolidated the list of actions and navigation options into one single menu on the top left-hand side of the client. The menu is now context aware so only the options which are applicable to the current space will show.
Navigation Tabs Across top
Combined Navigation and Action Menu
These are part of the single page application experience in which less page reloads in the client provides easier access to different spaces as well as reduces to move between spaces. These changes are now available in Qlik's cloud offerings and will be available in the Qlik Sense February 2019 release installation packages.
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Hey guys, hope you are enjoying the new Qlik Community and the many relationships it fosters as well as the numerous resources it offers. Today I want to introduce and demonstrate our new machine learning capabilities added to the Qlik Sense November 2018 release. At Qlik we have been talking about augmented intelligence for a while and we have delivered some great innovations, such as our new cognitive engine and the Insight Advisor; both released earlier this year. Now we have taken things to the next level and are yet again leading BI innovation with the release of precedent based machine learning.
With any AI functionality, it requires to be constantly fed more and more information in order to get smarter and smarter. You could think of it as an inquisitive child. With the Qlik Sense November2018 release, we've released features under the umbrella of what is called precedent-based machine learning. Precedent-based learning allows our cognitive engine to constantly learn from the data it sees, so it becomes a learning model. As it sees more data, it gets smarter and uses that to its advantage to give you better predictions and at the same time solicits user feedback so it can produce significantly smarter insights.
Watch this brief video to learn more and see these new capabilities in action.
Enjoy!
Can't see the video? YouTube blocked by your organization or region? Download the attached .mp4 to watch on your computer or mobile device.
Regards
Mike Tarallo (Twitter)Qlik
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If you have updated or installed the November 2018 release of Qlik Sense in your computer then you should have noticed a new dialog during the initial stages of the installation requesting you to agree to install the “Dashboard bundle” alongside Qlik Sense.
The goal of this new bundle is to provide users with tools to facilitate, even more, the dashboard creation in Qlik Sense.
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