The new Straight Table was moved into the new native section of charts from the visualization bundle. The new Straight Table offers many improvements from the old table, and we encourage everyone to start using the new table instead of the old one.

This article aims to answer any frequently asked questions around this switch, beginning with:

• The old table will not be removed anytime soon. It will continue to work until further notice. We encourage you to subscribe to the Qlik Support Blog and What's New in Qlik Cloud to stay ahead of updates.
• The old table will not be updated further. Use the new table to benefit from future improvements.
• We monitor your feedback and will improve the functionality of the new table.

FAQ

What improvements does the Straight table come with?

Here are some examples:

• Grid styling
• Totals styling
• Pagination or virtual scroll
• Scrollbars outside of the table
• Add, delete many fields at the same time
• Cell font family, size and color styling
• Font styling by expression
• Column width options pixels, percentages
• Chart exploration, end user can pick dimensions and measures
• Header on/off
• Zebra striping
• Null value styling
• Selection info in export
• Totals in export
• Titles in export
• Cyclic dimension controls in dropdown

Will the old table be removed?

No, the old table will continue to work in the foreseeable future. Any changes will be notified in advance. Regardless, we highly recommend upgrading your tables as soon as possible to enjoy the new Straight Table's new functions. 

How do I convert to the new table?

The easiest way to convert your tables is to drop the new table chart onto the old one.

1. First, copy the old table
2. Edit the sheet that includes the Table (retired)
3. Open the Charts pane
4. Drag the Straight table over your table
5. Choose Convert to: Straight table

The new table looks different and offers more functionality that must be enabled to be used.

When will the old table be deprecated?

Not anytime soon, it will be a soft fade out. The new Straight Table will be the preferred choice for all new applications, and we anticipate many will upgrade to benefit from new functionality. Over time, the usage of the old table will diminish until most applications are using the new table anyway.

Will this affect Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows?

Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows will have the table feature aligned with Qlik Cloud Analytics in a future release.

I’m not happy with X and Y of the new table, will that be changed?

We’re closely monitoring feedback on the new table and are dedicated to creating the best possible experience, including improvements to accessibility. We are committed to accessible standards so people with disabilities can use our products. Printing, the tables should, of course, print in as consistent a manner as possible. As for usability. we aim to enable experienced users to reach functionality quickly, while also not overwhelming new users.

Environment

• Qlik Analytics

Some Qlik Cloud visualisations allow images to be shown from external URLs.

Is it possible to embed images that were uploaded to the media library?

Resolution

We currently don't have a global repository for images in Qlik Cloud, but each app has its own media library, where images can be uploaded.

To link them:

1. Make sure you are authenticated on the tenant
2. Get the list of all media contained in an app by going to https://TENANT.REGION.qlikcloud.com/api/v1/apps/APPID/media/list, replacing TENANT, REGION, and APPID with the correct values
3. Get the link for each image
   
   Example:
   
   "type": "image","id": "UserAnalyzer.png","link": "/api/v1/apps/1aa5c924-72cb-405a-bb60-8b5118e4b299/media/files/UserAnalyzer.png","name": "UserAnalyzer.png" 
   
   
4. Use the resulting /api/v1... URL for your visualization
   
   

Using a full URL to display the images (example: https://TENANT.REGION.qlikcloud.com/api/v1/apps/APPID/media/files/FILENAME.png) will work inside the app when authenticated on the tenant, but it will not work in other scenarios, such as mashups or the reporting service.

Make sure to use a relative URL (example: /api/v1/apps/APPID/media/files/FILENAME.png) instead.

For suggestions on how to improve the media library, please log an idea at Qlik Ideation.  

Environment

• Qlik Cloud Analytics

When the list box is set to collapsed, its title size cannot be changed from the Styling tab. This is currently a product limitation. 

An improvement is on Qlik's roadmap: VIZ-241

Environment

• Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows

A Qlik Cloud Analytics app contains objects that show images linked from within the app's content library.

The links are constructed in the following format:

https://TENANT.REGION.qlikcloud.com/api/v1/apps/APPID/media/files/FILENAME

The images shown correctly inside the app, but when performing any type of export (pdf, images, tabular reports, etc.) the images are broken.
 

Resolution

For it to work, you need to user the relative URL api/v1/apps/APPID/media/list without the tenant name.

Example:

api/v1/apps/0ac04a5f-e44d-413c-9771-07c8d27a8e70/media/files/Background.png
 

Linking images this way will mean they function correctly from within the app and after an export or when running a report. 

Environment

• Qlik Cloud Analytics

Images included in an Excel worksheet may appear stretched or use the wrong aspect ratio when previewed in an Excel report or after being distributed in an on-demand reporting task.

This affects charts imported by Qlik Sense as well as static images and shapes. 

Resolution

To fix the affected Qlik Reporting template, change the body font currently used in the Excel template to a supported font family:

1. Create a new Excel workbook or open an existing Excel template using Office Web or Excel
   Desktop
2. For each Excel worksheet contained in the Workbook, click on the worksheet’s top left
   corned or press Ctrl-A to select all the cells.
3. In the Excel ribbon bar, under the Home menu, choose a supported body font
   
   Supported fonts:
   
   
   • Andale Mono
   • Arial (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
   • Arial Black
   • Calibri (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
   • Calibri Light (Italic)
   • Cambria (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
   • Candara (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
   • Comic Sans MS (Bold)
   • Consolas (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
   • Constantia (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
   • Corbel (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
   • Courier New (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
   • Georgia (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
   • Impact
   • Times New Roman (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
   • Trebuchet (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
   • Verdana (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
   • Webdings
   • WenQuanYi Zen Hei
     
     More fonts could be supported in the future.
     
     
4. After changing your font, double-check the size of images added to the template (both static
   images and dynamic Qlik Sense charts). Font modification may have altered the image; if necessary, resize or re-add the image.

To prevent other related symptoms, set the main display zoom level to 100% when creating and editing an Excel template on the Windows platform. Note that this is a Windows OS setting and not the Zoom set within the Excel App.

Cause

An unsupported font is used in the current Qlik Reporting template. 

Internal Investigation ID(s)

SUPPORT-3842, QCB-32146

Environment

• Qlik Cloud Analytics
• Qlik Reporting

The value of a reference line for a scatter plot chart may be beyond the displayed range and out of view. In this case, hovering over the icon indicating the reference line will not show its label tooltip.

The issue persists even if Show Label is checked.

Waterfall charts are also affected. 

No tooltip in scatter plot

tooltip works in other charts

Resolution

This behavior is being investigated as a defect (SUPPORT-3799). The expected fix release is the Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows November 2025 release.

Information provided on this defect is given as is at the time of documenting. For up-to-date information, please review the most recent Release Notes or contact support with the ID SUPPORT-3799 for reference.

Fix Version:

Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows November 2025

Cause

Product Defect ID: SUPPORT-3799

Environment

• Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows May 2024 to May 2025 
• Qlik Sense Desktop May 2024 to May 2025 
• Scatterplot charts and Waterfall charts

The QlikView Multi-box object does not show all expected results when opening from the QlikView AccessPoint.

Example:

Searching for *abc returns four results, while there are five matches in the data.

This may occur after an upgrade (such as upgrading QlikView from an earlier release to 12.90).

Resolution

Review your browser's extensions. A known root cause for this issue is a custom browser extension that modifies a page's CSS (Cascading Style Sheet). This resulted in the results being hidden by the search box.

To resolve this, disable or otherwise modify the custom extension. 

Internal Investigation ID(s)

SUPPORT-722

Environment

• QlikView

You can access Qlik Sense demo apps from https://demos.qlik.com/.

If you are looking for real-life business examples, our Qlik Gallery hosts a platform meant for sharing apps, outcomes, and ideas. It is not restricted to Qlik-provided demos and mostly consists of customer examples.

If you are looking to download demo apps:

1. Go to https://demos.qlik.com/ 
2. Select Downloadable from the available Tags
   
3. Open the App
4. A Download button will be available (if logged in)
   
   

In Qlik Sense, bookmarks can be created with the "Include Layout State" option to capture both current selections and the layout of visual objects, such as the expanded or collapsed state of pivot tables. However, users may notice that after reloading the document and reapplying the bookmark, the pivot table does not return to the expected expanded/collapsed layout.

Resolution

To ensure that the pivot table layout is retained when using bookmarks:

• Avoid changing the structure of the pivot table after creating the bookmark.
• Ensure that dimension value order remains consistent in the data source to prevent layout mismatch.
• If changes to dimension order or pivot structure are necessary, consider creating new bookmarks to reflect the updated layout.

Cause

This behavior is due to how Qlik Sense manages the expand/collapse structure in pivot tables. Specifically:

• Qlik Sense relies on the data load order of dimension values to track and restore the expand/collapse state.
• If the order of values in a dimension changes in the source data, the original layout state stored in the bookmark becomes invalid.
• When the pivot table structure changes (e.g., dimensions are reordered, added, or removed), Qlik Sense considers it a new layout, and the previously saved layout state can no longer be applied.

Impact of Changing Dimensions in a Pivot Table

If you change the pivot table structure after creating a bookmark (such as removing or reordering dimensions):

• Qlik Sense treats this as a different visual object layout.
• The bookmark will still apply filter selections but not the layout state.
• The expand/collapse configuration of the pivot will not be restored.

Environment

• Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows all versions
• Qlik Cloud Analytics

Advanced options is not visible when editing a sheet. This can happen on a specific app even if the option was present before.

Resolution

You can activate the "Show Sheet Header" option in the app settings to make the "Advanced option" button visible again.

1. Open the App settings.
   
2. Activate "Show Sheet Header".
   

Cause 

For some reasons, the "Show Sheet Header" could be deactivated in an app. "Advanced Options" is invisible when this happens, because it is located in the sheet header that is removed. The app looks like this in editing mode:

Environment

• Qlik Cloud

It is possible to add a Table of Contents (TOC) to Qlik NPrinting reports using the standard Microsoft Word functionality.

The font in the TOC depends on two factors:

• The font of the different sequences' names depends on the font of the corresponding header
• The font used for the dots and the page numbers depends on the font of the body

This means that in the same line of a TOC, two fonts may be present. One corresponds to the chapter or paragraph name (header), while the other corresponds to the dots and the page number.

The best way to manage this correctly is to create a theme defining the different fonts and to apply it to the Microsoft Word template:

1. In Microsoft Word, open the Design tab 
2. Click Fonts
3. Choose Customized Fonts...
   
   
   
   
4. Choose the Heading and Body font
5. Save the template
   
   
   
   
6. Select the content you want the template to apply to 
7. Apply the template you created
   
   

Environment

• Qlik NPrinting

When entering a condition for Cloud Alerts, the alert may not trigger if the value was entered without using the function (Fx) button.

Resolution

This is working as designed.

Two types of alerts can be designed:

• An alert based on a string
• An alert based on an expression

String

To generate an alert based on a string, directly enter the string in the value text box. 

Analyzing the value with the developer tool, it will be shown as a simple string:

Expression

To generate an alert based on an expression, click the function (fx) button and enter the required expression or value.

Analyzing the value with the developer tool, it will be shown as {qExpr: "…"}}].

Related Content

• Monitoring data with alerts 
• Tutorial - Alerts 

Environment

• Qlik Cloud Analytics

At Qlik Connect 2024 I hosted a session called "Top 10 Visualization tips". Here's the app I used with all tips including test data.

Tip titles, more details in app:

• New, recurring and lost
• Phasor diagram
• Common 0 axis
• Force bar clipped axis
• Color by expression legend
• Combo line labels off
• Gantt table
• Dynamic classes
• Unicode symbols
• Hide fields
• KPI cards revisited
• Sankey as decomposition chart
• Image to map revisited

I want to emphasize that many of the tips were discovered by others than me, I tried to credit the original author at all places when possible.

If you liked it, here's more in the same style:

• 24 days of visualization Season III, II, I
• Top 10 Tips Part IX, VIII, VII, VI, V, IV, III, II , I 
• Let's make new charts with Qlik Sense
• FT Visual Vocabulary Qlik Sense version
• Similar but for Qlik GeoAnalytics : Part III,  II, I

Thanks,
Patric

Qlik NPrinting Excel reports fail when a level is inside hidden columns. The following error is shown:

Object reference not set to an instance of an object

The error message occurs when the columns where a level is placed are hidden.

Resolution

Upgrade to NPrinting February 2024 IR (24.4.5) or later versions.

Cause 

OP-95820, resolved in Qlik NPrinting February 2024 IR (24.4.5) or later versions.

Internal Investigation ID

OP-95820

Environment

Qlik NPrinting May 2023

A specific line chart responds slower than expected and consumes excessive browser memory. 

Resolution

This is working as expected.

Set Presentation > Missing values to Show as gaps

Cause

The affected chart has the Presentation > Missing values set to Show as Zero.

This will fill missing values with zeros and render all line segments, leading to a slow response time. With Missing values set to Show as gaps, all line segments involving missing values will be skipped, improving performance. 

Internal Investigation ID(s)

QB-30492

Environment

• Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows

Exporting charts from QlikView .qvw documents and downloading the files may lead to charts with corrupted visuals. This may specifically impact complex charts (utilizing shadows, scales, and other visual settings).

Example One:

This bar chart with active shadows has been downloaded to PDF. The file is corrupted and fails to open with the error Failed to load PDF document. 

Example Two:

Gauge charts scale exported bigger and the charts get smaller.

Resolution

Add the configuration SlowPrinting in the QlikView Settings.ini and export again.

Example for QlikView Desktop:

1. Close Qlikview Desktop
2. Navigate to C:\Users\<User>\AppData\Roaming\QlikTech\QlikView\
3. Open Settings.ini as an administrator
4. Add the following parameter under [Settings 7]
   SlowPrinting=1 (IMPORTANT: The line must be added at the top of the list i.e directly under [Settings 7])
5. Save the file.

Printing will be slower and potentially generate larger files.

For information about editing the settings.ini file, see How to change the settings.ini in QlikView Desktop and QlikView Internet Explorer Plugin.

Cause

By default, QlikView is set for high-speed PDF printing which may result in perceived lower-quality PDFs.

In turn, if it is not set for "high speed" PDF printing, and apparent lower quality is experienced, this may be a user perception issue and actually due to the "low speed" setting being enabled.

Environment

• QlikView

The file name format of charts downloaded from a QlikView app hosted on Qlik Cloud Analytics has changed with January 2025. Previously, file names were fixed, such as Chart_excel. The file now is a unique GUID for each download.

This is working as designed. The behavior is consistent with the client-managed version of the QlikView access point. 

Qlik Sense apps were not affected by this change.

Environment

• QlikView
• Qlik Cloud Analytics

Exporting a chart to PDF may lead to an exported file size of 0 or 1KB. The resulting file fails to open:

Failed to load PDF document

The file on disk is corrupted.

Resolution

The chart background style Shadow (Plot Area Background Style) has limitations when printing to PDF. 

Two workarounds exist.

Workaround One, disable the Background Style:

1. Right-click the chart
2. Open Chart Properties
3. Go to the Style tab
4. Review the Plot Area Background Style
5. Switch it away from Shadow
   
   
   
6. Apply the changes

Workaround Two, configure ShowPrinting:

1. Open Settings.ini for Qlikview Desktop 
   Typically stored in: C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\QlikTech\QlikView 
2. Below the [Settings 7] section, add the following parameter:

   [Settings 7] 
   SlowPrinting=1

Cause

The chart background style Shadow (Plot Area Background Style) has limitations when printing to PDF.

Internal Investigation ID(s)

QV-25445

Environment

• QlikView Desktop