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Michael_Tarallo
Employee
Employee

Hey guys - it's What's New in Qlik Sense time and I have prepared a brief video to share some of the awesome highlights in our next release Qlik Sense April 2018.

Highlights include:

Assisted data visualization with Qlik Sense chart suggestions / recommendations

Qlik Sense recommendations make it easier to create a visualization by allowing you to simply drag and drop fields onto your sheets. Chart suggestions are created using the Cognitive Engine in Qlik, which leverages insights from the data loaded and combines them with best practices for data visualization.

NEW Grid Size control

Now with the creation of a new sheet, the application author can choose between 3 grid sizes - small, medium and large.

Maps visualizations improvements

Qlik Sense April 2018 features significant improvements to the built-in maps visualization:

  • Support for multiple layers.
  • Labels for point layers and area layers.
  • Quick look up of countries, divisions, cities, postal code areas.
  • Circle select with distance measure.
  • Drill down support.
  • Layer control, zoom limit and draw order.
  • English or local name in the background map.

Publishing an app from the hub

In Qlik Sense April 2018 you can publish an app that you have created to any stream for which you have publish access. If you have published an app to a stream, you can move your app between the streams for which you have permission to publish.

Qlik Geocoding
A new subscription service part of the Qlik GeoAnalytics product package, that allows you to coordinate geo lookups all the way down to the street level.

Also included:

Keyboard navigation support for Qlik Sense hub

To improve accessibility, Qlik Sense hub now supports keyboard navigation and shortcuts.

Linking Qlik Sense Mobile to third-party applications

Qlik Sense Mobile can now interact with third party mobile applications through a custom generated URL (deep link). The link can be embedded within the third party mobile application, with appropriate selections and filters. Clicking the link opens the app in Qlik Sense Mobile with the filters and selections that were applied during original presentation. As a result, user experience is improved and context is provided when interacting with the app.

Enable anonymous users to export data

From Qlik Sense April 2018 anonymous users can print and export data.

For a complete list of fixes and improvements check out the release notes in the Qlik Help site.

You can download it from our customer downloads site or play with it right now on http://qlikcloud.com/.

Note: Our amazing product content and media team has also produced a number of updated videos supporting this release, check them out here on the Qlik Help YouTube channel:

Qlik Sense April 2018 Playlist

Can't see the video? YouTube blocked by your region or organization? Download the attached .mp4 to play on your computer or mobile device.

Additional resources:

Regards,

Michael Tarallo (@mtarallo) | Twitter

Qlik

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mountaindude
Partner Ambassador
Partner Ambassador

Think I found it.

I had not previously approved the Qlik Data Market license agreement in the QMC.

Things had been working just fine, but the April18 caused the data connections to fail loading because of the non-approved Data Market T&Cs.

Approving them and restarting the Sense server, and voila!

Data connections are now showing up as expected.

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Michael_Tarallo
Employee
Employee

Hi Goran - thanks for the thorough investigation, i reviewed what you posted - I have informed the products team, if they come back with anything - I will update you.

Regards,

Mike T

Qlik

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Michael_Tarallo
Employee
Employee

Hi Richard -

I see it is possible via the API - but have not found a clean example of this - if you search the community you will find some examples, but I don't have the confidence they are working as I have not seen this in action yet - I will ask my colleague  - swr‌ - Hi Stefan - can you please provide an example on how to export data from a viz that is in a mashup - I found some older code on the community - but believe that may have changed since then. Thanks.

Mike

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rbartley
Specialist II
Specialist II

Hi Mike,

Thanks for responding.  In fact, I know that data can be exported as I'm already doing this.  My question was about the anonymous export with mashups.   

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Michael_Tarallo
Employee
Employee

Correct - yes, sorry I was not clearer in my reply - I did send this message to the products team responsible for the APIs:

"Would you be so kind to review the comment in the community discussion and please provide some insight on how someone can export data from a mashup viz, and is it something that would be supported anonymously? I did see a section in the doc under the Engine API that it was possible, but I am unsure how to implement something like this in a mashup. Thanks for your time."

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Aiham_Azmeh
Employee
Employee

Hi rbartley‌,

In the Visualization API's Qvisualization object model we are exposing Table API which has `exportData` method. I agree the documentation is not clear enough; we are looking forward fixing this.

A simple example:

var app = qlik.openApp( 'app_id', config );

app.visualization.get( 'object_id' ).then(function(vis){

  vis.show('QV06');

  vis.table.exportData({download:true});

});

I hope this helps

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rbartley
Specialist II
Specialist II

Hi Aiham,

I'm still not clear whether this allows anonymous data export.  Could you please confirm?

Thanks.

Richard

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Aiham_Azmeh
Employee
Employee

Hi,

Yes, the exportData method in Table API works when the user is anonymous, from April 2018 release.

In earlier versions, the user was getting an error message: `Forbidden`.


/aiham

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rbartley
Specialist II
Specialist II

Thanks for confirming.

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Patric_Nordstrom
Employee
Employee

Hi Mike and Maria,

Yes, that's correct the QGA connector with the geo operations is not part of the new built in map chart. We will enhance the map chart in that coming releases with more layer types and visualization features.

For clarifications around mapping options in Sense, see my comments here:

https://community.qlik.com/blogs/qlikproductinnovation/2018/05/09/qlik-geoanalytics-mapping-capabili...

Thanks,

Patric

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