Qlik Cloud UX - nice tricks for GeoAnalytics, KPI and Combobox

[IVAN-FELIPE]

Recently Qlik has updated new interesting capabilities that can be very useful to improve our UX.

I'll try to show their value with some real examples.

Specific measure color for Combobox:

At least! Now we can decide which color we want to apply to each measure in a combobox

 This opens the door to customize it as much as you want and even add some transparencies in combination with  a nice sheet background, like this:

How?

1. Each measure now has a button property called  'More properties'
2. Click and you'll be able to asign a specific color to that measure
3. Select 'Color by expression' and use the RGBA formula to add a transparency
   
   ='rgba(182, 215, 234,0.6)' //where 0.6 means the level of opacity, from 0 to 1

Background color and new icons for KPI object:

Now we can add static and dynamic colors in the KPI object and also up to 1117 new icons!!

And of course, again, you can add some cool opacity there:

How to add background color?

1. There is a new feature in the setting Presentation--> styling
2. There you can add a static or dynamic color,
   
   i.e. ='rgba(248, 152, 29,0.8)' //again rgba to get some opacity between 0 and 1

Where are the new icons?

The new icons are available when you add a color limit condition

Native map accepts up to 50k points & KML files supported without GeoConnector:

KML files can be read now directly, like a txt file.

This has some positive consequences, i.e. you can read it as an XML file.

So often there are many info contained in a KML that we didn't use to load.

Now you can add a lot of extra attributes, not only a Key and coordinates.

In the next case there is a KML with rivers in Spain, with plenty of attributes:

• Name of each small stretch
• Quality of water for many different analysis
• ...
• And of course key and coordinates

Now you can add up to 50k points so it means you can render high quality details, like the Duero river basin:

Attached you'll find a demo 100% native functionality.

Made up with Qlik Cloud May'22.

If you use it in SaaS you'll need to allow incoming images from Amazon S3.

To allow that:

1. Open the SaaS Management Console
2. Chose the setting 'Content Security Policy'
3. Add a new policy allowing this URL publicqssaasbucket.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com
4. Just  check the 'img-src'
   
   

Hope you like it!

Ivan

[CereaisCelia]

Hi !!

It's awesome!! I have a question.. How did you get map  object overlayed KPI ? 

[IVAN-FELIPE]

Hi, 

It's just CSS, you can modify the position of any object using percentages for vertical and horizontal position. Then it will respect this coordinates for any screen format, except for mobile, which has its own rules for object's positioning.

The CSS is inside a supported MultiKPI object, which contains a 'styles' property that inject this CSS on the fly.

If you are not familiar with CSS you can use the extension BeautifyMe to generate it.

Regards