System functions provide functions for accessing system, device and Qlik Sense app properties.
Use the drop-down on each function to see a brief description and the syntax of each function. For some of the functions, you can get further details about that specific function by clicking the function name in the syntax description.
This function returns
a string containing the author property of the current app. It can be used in both the data load script and in a chart expression.
Information noteAuthor property can not be set in the current version of Qlik Sense. If you migrate a QlikView document, the author property will be retained.
This function returns the user agent string of the client browser. It can be used in both the data load script and in a chart expression.
Example:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/35.0.1916.114 Safari/537.36
This function returns a string containing the name of the computer as returned by
the operating system. It can be used in both the data load script and in a chart expression.
ComputerName( )
This function returns
a string containing the name of the current Qlik Sense app, without path but with extension. It can be used in both the data load script and in a chart expression.
DocumentName( )
This function returns
a string containing the full path to the current Qlik Sense app. It can be used in both the data load script and in a chart expression.
This function returns
a string containing the title of the current Qlik Sense app. It can be used in both the data load script and in a chart expression.
DocumentTitle( )
This function returns
the full Qlik Sense engine version as a string.
This script function returns the culture name of the collation locale that is used. If the variable CollationLocale has not been set, the actual user machine locale is returned.
GetCollationLocale( )
This function returns the name of the dimension. Index is an optional integer denoting which of the used dimensions that should be returned.
This function returns a string containing the name of the user that is currently connected. It can be used in both the data load script and in a chart expression.
OSUser( )
Information noteIn Qlik Sense Desktop and Qlik Sense Mobile, this function always returns 'Personal\Me'.
This function returns
the full Qlik Sense version and build number
as a string.
This function is deprecated and replaced by EngineVersion().
This function returns a timestamp for when the last data load finished. It can be used in both the data load script and in a chart expression.
ReloadTime( )
StateName() returns the name of the alternate state of the visualization in which it is used. StateName can be used, for example, to create visualizations with dynamic text and colors to reflect when the state of a visualization is changed. This function can be used in chart expressions, but cannot be used to determine the state that the expression refers to.
