Choosing your context

Qlik Help

Qlik Help answers your questions about Qlik Cloud, based on the Qlik Cloud documentation. Qlik Help questions are free and are not counted toward usage consumption limits.

It is the default agent when you open Answers outside of an application in an activity center.

Qlik Help is context sensitive; it filters the help content based on what activity center you are in. For best results, if you want to ask a question about Analytics for example, you need to go to the Analytics activity center. If the answer is not what you need, you can click Ask again without previous context at the end of the answer, to make Qlik Answers run the question again without using the previous context.

It includes links to relevant help topics at the end of the answer. When you click one of the links, the help topic appears in the chat. You can also click Go to topic to open Qlik Cloud documentation outside of the chat in a new tab in your browser.

Requirements: User must have a role with the permission Qlik product help set to Allowed.

For more information, see Answering questions with Qlik Answers.

Fast mode

Fast mode is built for direct, retrieval-style questions against structured data. It returns results quickly, typically within 10 to 15 second, and works best when your question has a clear, single answer that comes from reading the data in your application.

• Fast mode can generate charts and visualizations. It cannot generate full sheets. You can add the charts generated from fast mode into sheets.

• Fast mode is only available for structured data in application analysis.

  If your question requires reasoning across both structured and unstructured data sources, thinking mode in an assistant is the correct avenue.

If fast mode cannot answer your question, because the question is too complex or requires deeper reasoning, it will tell you so directly rather than returning a poor answer. In that case, a Think more button appears below the response. Clicking it reruns your question in thinking mode, with your full conversation context preserved.

Fast mode is good for:

• "What were total sales last quarter?"

• "Show me revenue by region for Q1 2026"

• "Which sales rep had the highest bookings in May?"

• "Bar chart of top 10 customers by order value"

• "Trend of monthly active users over the last six months"

Thinking mode

Thinking mode is built for questions that go beyond simple retrieval — analysis that requires multiple steps, questions that combine structured application data with unstructured content like documents or knowledge bases, or tasks where you want Qlik Answers to build something rather than just answer something.

Thinking mode takes longer than fast mode, but handles ambiguous, layered, or creative tasks that fast mode cannot.

If you started in fast mode and press the Think more option, thinking mode picks up exactly where fast mode left off — same application, same conversation context, no need to re-ask your question.

Thinking mode is good for:

• "Create a sheet showing pipeline health by region with a sales funnel and a month-over-month trend"

• "Compare our support ticket volume against NPS scores over the last year — is there a pattern?"

• "I have product documentation loaded in this assistant and sales data in the app — which product categories have the most open complaints relative to their revenue contribution?"

• "Add a KPI tile for gross margin and a bar chart of margin by product line to this app"

• "Our churn data looks unusual in Q3 — walk me through what might be driving it"

Switching modes in the middle of a conversation

You can toggle between fast mode and thinking mode at any point using the mode selector in the chat. Context from your previous messages carries over when you switch — if you have been exploring sales data in fast mode and want to go deeper on a specific finding, switching to thinking mode continues from that point rather than starting fresh.

The most common flow is to start in fast mode for quick lookups, press Think more when a question needs more depth, and stay in thinking mode for the rest of that session if the analysis is getting complex.