Using smart sheets in Insight Advisor for period-based analyses

Use smart sheets in Insight Advisor to automatically build full sheets for your Qlik Sense application. Smart sheets are specifically designed for building period-based analyses.

Access the smart sheet builder from Insight Advisor Analysis Types when you select any of the following analysis types:

• Period over period (selected)

• Period changes

• Period changes (detailed)

Requirements

The following table outlines what you need to be able to use the Period over period, Period over period (selected), Period changes, or Period changes (detailed) analysis types.

Using calendar periods and autocalendar

Using autocalendar in your application is the easiest way to guarantee you will be able to use all period-based analysis types. This is because autocalendar automatically adds a number of calendar periods into the application to make period-based analyses easier.

When you build an application and load data with Data manager, autocalendar is automatically created in the script if date fields are detected in the data.

If you are not able to use these analysis types in your application, it is because you have not created the required calendar period. This could be due to a number of reasons, including:

• Your application was built using scripting, and you did not manually insert the autocalendar script into the load script.

• You do have autocalendar in the application, but all calendar periods were removed in the application's business logic.

• Your application has at least one calendar period, but it was created using a custom calendar (with custom calendars, the Period over period and Period over period (selected) analysis types are not available).

Adding autocalendar to your load script

If you have built your application in Data load editor and have not defined a custom calendar, you can insert the autocalendar script directly into the application's load script and change the names of the fields you wish to link to autocalendar.

See Automatically deriving date fields using autocalendar for the script code and other details.

Adding or re-adding calendar periods

If calendar periods have been deleted from your application's business logic, add at least one of them back to access the available period-based analysis types. For autocalendar-defined calendar periods, these can be either Last sorted value or Relative.

For further instructions on creating calendar periods based on autocalendar or a custom calendar, see Creating calendar periods.

Creating smart sheets

For a full example of how to create a smart sheet and add it to a Qlik Sense application, see Tutorial - Build an analytics application. Specifically, see Create a sheet from analysis types.