Feedback on Qlik Reporting Experience

[ExQlikDW]

I’ve been using Qlik Reporting recently and often find myself struggling in several areas:

• Locating images I’ve added to the image library.
• Debugging deployments to identify where images have been used.
• Understanding error messages, which often lack clarity.

The most frustrating part isn’t just finding the right images—it’s even harder to delete unwanted ones. Before removing an image from the library, I must first delete every instance where it’s deployed. However, templates don’t display image icons, so I have to click into properties and check image sources manually. Imagine doing this for 50+ images in a template—it feels like one step forward, ten steps back.

When I used NPrinting, the process was much simpler. If Storytelling had the 'LEVEL' similar functionality, it would save us significant time and effort.

Challenges and Suggestions

Below are the issues I’ve encountered. I hope these are not inherent limitations but rather gaps in my understanding or missing guidelines.

Problem	Challenges	Better Alternative Suggestion by Qlik or Other Qlik Reporting Expert from Community
Adding Images – One by One	Adding multiple images from a sheet is cumbersome: Navigate to the sheet, wait for rendering. Find the image, add it, wait for rendering again. Repeat for every image. As a leading BI tool, I’d expect multi-select functionality for adding images—this should be a basic feature.
Images Entity Sorting	Images entity in the library aren’t sorted by the time they were added. They appear randomly, possibly by name, and there’s no sorting option. For example, the last image I added might appear near the top instead of at the end.
Finding Images - Image Naming	Image names vary: (see diagram No. 2) Sometimes long alphanumeric codes. Sometimes titles. Sometimes short random strings (especially when added as Master Items). Although there’s an optional field for naming images under properties, these names don’t appear in the library, making identification harder.
Tracking Image Entity Deployment	The above error message is caused by an object has been deleted in a sheet.  But what object is that? In which sheet? There is probably no way I could find out, I would like to know if there is a method to do so. I thought to remove the entire Image entity at least get the preview working, then the next error pop up. Now, I have to first remove all instances first where I used this images in the template.  To find this out, the only way I know is to click on each object property and then click on Image Source to compare the image long id. So, is there a way we can see where all images are deployed in the reporting section or band or subband?
Trouble shooting – Vague Error Message	Error messages are vague and provide no clues about the root cause. For example: “Bad Request”  - what request? Patch ‘value’ – what is Patch value?  Why ‘value’ has this quotation ‘ ‘?. I ended up recreate the whole template after deleting all my objects and this message still popping up.
Troubleshooting – Error Message without much Context	When adding a KPI as an image, I sometimes get errors despite the KPI having valid data. Could conditional visibility be the issue? Possibly—but the error messages make troubleshooting extremely difficult, especially for new users.

[Daniele_Purrone]

Hi @ExQlikDW ,

this is very valuable. What I recommend is that you suggest an idea for each of these challenges, so that they can go straight to the product management team.