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 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 the value of a key in the Windows registry. It can be used in both the data load script and in a chart expression.
GetRegistryString(path, key)
This function returns a string containing the name of the current user as returned
by the operating system. It can be used in both the data load script and in a chart expression.
OSUser( )
This function returns
the full Qlik Sense version and build number
as a string.
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( )
This chart function returns the state name of the object in which it is used. The Qlik Sense developer can use this function to have dynamic text and colors when an object’s state is changed. It is important to note that this function works on objects only. It cannot be used in a chart expression to determine the state that the expression refers to.
