Creating Combo Chart using Qlik Engine JSON API

[vighnesh_gawad]

Hi Guys,
I’m trying to create a combo chart using the Qlik Engine JSON API. For this, I referred to the documentation here:
[https://help.qlik.com/en-US/sense-developer/May2025/Subsystems/EngineJSONAPI/Content/genericobject-l...)

I followed these steps:

1. Created a sheet in the app
2. Retrieved the properties of the sheet
3. Retrieved the layout of the sheet
4. Created a combo chart on the sheet
5. Retrieved the layout of the sheet again
6. Retrieved the properties of the combo chart
7. Retrieved the layout of the combo chart

All the steps executed successfully, Through Api i can check that combo chart object is created. but I’m not able to see the combo chart on the sheet.

Am I missing any step, or is there something additional I need to do?

[Øystein_Kolsrud · Accepted solution]

You need to add a pointer to the created combo chart in a cell of the sheet. This part of how the client works is not considered an official part of the API so it's is not publicly documented. But it's relatively easy to reverse engineer it. Just have a look at the cell structure of a sheet you create through the GUI. And I can recommend this tool for inspecting properties and layouts:

https://community.qlik.com/t5/Qlik-Sense-Documents/Qlik-Explorer-for-Developers/ta-p/1949809

Here is another thread on thread on the topic by the way:

https://community.qlik.com/t5/Integration-Extension-APIs/Adding-objects-to-sheet-with-JSON-API/td-p/...

[vighnesh_gawad]

Thanks. I was able to figure it out using Qlik Explorer for Developers