Hi guys - in this edition of the Qlik Design Blog, I have a short video that briefly introduces you to some of the new features available in Qlik Sense February 2018. Some of the related features are already available in Qlik Sense Cloud and can be used immediately. (note: themes is not available in Qlik Sense Cloud). The software download is currently available to customers and partners who have signed up for the Technical Preview and will be made available for download in our customer downloads area this month.
You make the theme and import it as an extension - it's not an extension that allows you to create/edit themes. You have to create the theme externally and then import it - and that works from the Feb 2018 release onwards.
The tool you mention is VERY basic. It really doesn't even begin to touch on the various capabilities of the new Theme capability.
There is a lot of good information on the Qlik help site related to this capability. It gives you all the information on what you can do with themes in this release.
@jok - as you say it's a basic tool and is meant to give people who'd be intimidated by CSS/JSON or who just want something simple and quick a place to start. We thought we'd get the Minimum Viable Product out there in case people find value in it. If you're comfortable with CSS etc then it's not the tool for you - at least not yet!
Hi All thanks for your questions / comments - I will answer all of them in this reply:
Tami - as Alex had mentioned - once the theme is created, it is packaged as an extension - at the time of writing this blog, our online help site with the theme documentation was not ready - it is today - here is the link if you want additional detail: https://help.qlik.com/en-US/sense-developer/February2018/Subsystems/Extensions/Content/custom-themes... - so in short you are coding - CSS / JSON, packaging the theme as an extension and then enabling it by using the QMC.
Alex- thank you for providing the link to https://www.ometistoolkit.com/themebuilder - that is a great concept tool and I definitely see the potential. It is a quick way to jump-start the theme process.
Rohit - please check out the customer download site: demo.qlik.com/download for the latest release notes.
Just to let folks know, creating themes is VERY easy. You don't HAVE to use CSS, only if you want to. You can still create really nice themes without them so don't let this scare you away from using this functionality
In a nutshell, the documentation is REALLY easy to follow and gives really good examples. There is actually a complete example at the bottom of the help.qlik.com link below.
So to create your theme, all you really need to do is:
Create a directory called [your-theme-name]
Copy that code example,
paste it into any text editor,
find and replace any of the color variable codes,
save this as theme.json in your new directory,
Create the *.qext file with the following information: {"name":"Custom theme", "description":"My first custom theme", "type":"theme", "version":"1.0.0", "author":"Qlik"}
Save this [your-theme-name].qext file into your new directory;
Zip the two files up;
Import the zip file into the QMC under Extesions;
Change the settings of your app to use your new theme.
Thanks so much Michael, Alex, John et al, for the quick & helpful aids to our color-theme quandaries. Because we’re on deadline with several stream launches at moment, looks like we won’t be able to patch with Feb 2018 asap. But sure look forward to this happening so can take full advantage of all the new colorization features. Will also keep following you’re terrific thread here. Thanks again! –Tami.
