What's new in Qlik Sense November 2024
This section provides Qlik Sense business users, analytic creators, and data integrators a summary of the features and improvements available in Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows.
Qlik Sense administrators should review the What’s New section in the Qlik Sense for Administrators documentation set.
Qlik Sense developers should review the What’s New section in the Qlik Sense for Developers documentation set.
Visualizations and dashboards
Action to set active cyclic dimension field
The button got another action for controlling cyclic dimensions. Use Set active field to go to a specific field in the group.
Images in tables
Images can now be embedded in the new straight table and pivot table in the visualization bundle. The images can be sourced from the media library or from a URL.
Improvements to sheet navigation, interaction and the left asset panel
Three great additions to sheets and the asset panel!
-
The sheet navigation has moved to the left asset panel for easier navigation, alongside Bookmarks and Notes.
-
Grouping of sheets makes sheets easier to organize and find.
-
Pinning and resizing of the left asset panel makes the panel more readable and flexible.
Navigation menu
A big part of the app experience is the navigation between sheets. With our new navigation menu, you can style it as you prefer. Set to a top menu, a side panel, or as a pop up drawer. Pick any colors and choose the font that you desire.
New UI settings
App settings now include options to toggle individual items and buttons in the app navigation bar, toolbar and sheet header, allowing greater customization of the end user experience.
Hiding toolbar, sheet header, and app navigation bar options
Tab container
The new tab container is an improvement the old container object with a new name and styling settings for labels, tabs and icons. Key features include:
-
Label font styling: Family, size, color, alignment.
-
Label icon size, color and alignment.
-
Tab background, selected, and hover color settings. Color by fixed colors or by expression.
-
Styling for labels, tabs and icons, both for the whole container and per tab.
-
Support for label width by pixel or percent.
-
Support for longer labels.
-
Settings for vertical or horizontal tabs.
-
Improved menu experience.
Selection bar improvements
Labels
We have made improvements to the way labels work in the selection. If the user has provided a label to a master dimension, then that label will be used rather than the field name in the underlying data model. This will improve usability and make it easier to create multilingual applications.
Styling with custom themes
The selection bar can now be styled using custom themes. Style the selection bar and listboxes with custom definitions for the dataColors properties. These properties can be configured in the top-level theme definition, and at the chart level for the listBox object.
Context menu for visualizations
Introducing a new Context menu for visualizations toggle in Qlik Sense, enhancing app customization and user experience by allowing flexible control over the context menu visibility within app properties.
Straight table styling improvements
The new style settings include:
-
Background color and image
-
Font styling for header, dimension, measure and totals with font family, weight, size, foreground and background color
-
Grid styling with height, border and divider color and hover color options.
-
Null value font styling with font weight, foreground and background color
Modifiers and expression based text styling in the new straight table
The new straight table in the visualization bundle gets two enhancements. First is text styling by expression: set the dimension or measure to any combination of bold, italic, underline, and strikethrough using a second expression with tags <b>,<i>,<u> and<s>. Second is modifiers: turn your measure into an accumulation, a moving average, a difference, or a relative number with a single drop down.
Chart exploration for straight tables embedded in layout and tab containers
Chart exploration in the new straight table is now supported in layout container and the new tab container.
Combo chart improvements
Improvements have been added for the combo chart:
-
Based on feedback from our customers we're improving the combo chart and adding labels to markers and a setting to toggle the grid.
-
You now have the option to display labels on stacked measure segments.
-
Chart animations are now supported.
Chart background image by URL
Chart background by URL may seem small but offers huge potential to style and build up a highly dynamic and stylish app.
Useful for:
-
Linking images from external sources.
-
Building up dynamic images using an expression with inline SVG as a Data URI.
-
Fetching images from the media library with an expression and the API.
Image by URL can be used in:
-
Chart backgrounds
-
Straight table cells
-
Pivot table cells
-
Map point layer icons
-
Map chart background layers
General styling of bundled charts
The remaining charts in the visualization and the dashboard bundle are getting general styling including font styling of titles, background color and image options and border and shadow settings.
The charts impacted by this change are
-
Multi KPI
-
Network
-
PL Pivot
-
Radar
-
Trellis
-
Variance waterfall
-
Word cloud
-
Animator
-
Date range picker
-
Variable input
-
Video player
Data and platform
Enable and disable autocomplete in script and expression editors
Users can now enable or disable autocomplete hints when writing Qlik script in the script editor, data load editor, and expression editor.
Expressions in field labels
You can now have expressions in field labels for drill-down and cyclic dimensions. This lets you for example enable translation of labels in multi-language apps.
Improved usability of the Data load editor
The script editing experience has been improved in the Data load editor.
The editor now includes a data preview feature, allowing Qlik Sense users to get better insight when writing script to load data. Visual wizards have been added to easily write Store statements or include QVS files. The editor also adds usability improvements such as resizable panels and the possibility to preview the content of the included QVS files.
Improved usability and support of QVS script files
Qlik Sense now supports the ability to view and include QVS files in load scripts. Better support and improved usability of QVS files promotes scripting best practices, such as script reuse and modularity. QVS files may include reusable content such as subroutines, variables, color palettes, or calendars.
Search and replace in expression editor
Users can now search and replace text within the expression editor in Qlik Sense apps, just as they can already do in the script editor and data load editor. This includes a "replace all" option, allowing for quick bulk edits within a single complex expression.
The usability of the expression editor has also been improved by adding a confirmation dialog when closing with unsaved changes.