Automated Clicking to test Qlik Sense objects

[ZuzJsk007]

Hi all, is it somehow possible to do the following in Qlik Sense?

If you use MS Excel, you can "record macro" - it will automatically create a script which can be called later and automatically execute the recorded actions - copy cells values, paste them, etc.

I'd like to have such thing in Qlik Sense to check Qlik dashboard apps  if they behave as I want them to. E.g. I'd record such a "macro" to add a specific measure, do some filtering, enter a text to a writeback extension.... (to see if the objects rendered/behaved correctly on the frontend)

[Patricia_Silva]

Hello @ZuzJsk007based on the description I guess you mean the functionality of Qlik Buttons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ws7ws2aSWk and https://help.qlik.com/en-US/sense/February2021/Subsystems/Hub/Content/Sense_Hub/Visualizations/Butto... where you can:

- Apply bookmarks
- Move forward and backwards in your selections
- Clear selections in fields
- Lock all the selections
- Select values... etc

Hope this can help you achieve what you needed 😊

[ZuzJsk007]

Thanks, but I was more looking for an automated scenario - doing all that you described but automatically, without me actually clicking each time 🙂

[ArnadoSandoval · Accepted solution]

Hi @ZuzJsk007 

You may find Selenium helpful, I tried it once on Qlik Sense at it works, you will need to get familiar with the tool,

Good luck

[NellyAcko · Accepted solution]

I do this to check daily the output of a very large import of data has loaded correctly. I use python - selenium for this task. Miniconda is a good tool to start if you are not familiar with python. Also to find page elements there is lots of browser plug-ins you can add. E.G. Katalon recorder will help similar to excel macro recording. All free 🙂 

[ZuzJsk007]

Thanks a lot for the advice!! 🙂

[nickirwin]

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@Patricia_Silva wrote:

Hello @ZuzJsk007based on the description I guess you mean the functionality of Qlik Buttons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ws7ws2aSWk and https://help.qlik.com/en-US/sense/February2021/Subsystems/Hub/Content/Sense_Hub/Visualizations/Butto... where you can:

- Apply bookmarks
- Move forward and backwards in your selections
- Clear selections in fields
- Lock all the selections
- Select values... etc

Hope this can help you achieve what you needed 😊

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Thank you so much for sharing this. It has been 2 weeks since I was trying to get it to work on cps test I am building.. finally, it worked. 😄