April 20, 2023: What’s New in Qlik Cloud?

New customization options for filter panes

App developers now have new ways to customize the appearance and functionality of filter panes. The listbox for each field or master dimension in a filter pane can be customized individually with multiple new properties. The following options are available:

• Hide the displayed title of the field.

• Remove search functionality for the field, or switch to Wildcard mode (inserts * characters around string).

• Compact view for optimizing space between values.

• Checkbox mode for alternative selection method.

• Histogram view to display the frequency of each value in the data.

• Grid layout with custom ordering and display options.

Video – Creating a filter pane

Creating filter panes

Apache Parquet files are now supported as Qlik Sense data source

Apache Parquet is a columnar storage format, highly efficient for storing and querying large datasets. In Qlik Sense, you can read data from Parquet files, and store tables as Parquet files. Using Parquet allows for efficient querying of specific columns in a table rather than reading the entire table. This makes it well-suited for use with big data processing. Also, Parquet supports efficient compression and encoding of data which can further reduce storage space and improve query performance.

Working with Apache Parquet files

Improved button automation support

App consumers can now execute automations using button objects in sheets. Previously, only the automation owner could use a button object to run it. App consumers can include selections made in the app in the automation.

Automation owners can control whether any user can activate a button or only those with access to the automation.

Creating buttons

Tutorial – Active intelligence

Creating a basic write-back solution with Qlik Cloud

Updates to axis and value label styling in visualizations

App developers can now style the font used for axis labels, axis titles, and value labels in the following charts:

• Bar chart

• Box plot

• Combo chart

• Distribution plot

• Gauge

• Histogram

• Pie chart

• Scatter plot

• Waterfall chart

Font, font size, and color can be customized under the Chart tab.

Add background colors and images to mekko charts

App developers can now add a custom background color or image to mekko charts. Any image in the media library can be used as a background. You can choose a single background color or color by expression.

Mekko chart

Improved interface for app reload scheduling

App developers now have more fine-grain control over app reload schedules. For example, you can set the timezone for the reload, create an annual reload schedule, and automatically stop reloads after a certain date.

Scheduling reloading app data

Microsoft connectors for Qlik Application Automation now supported in Qlik Cloud Government

Qlik Cloud Government now supports the following Microsoft connectors for Qlik Application Automation:

• Microsoft Excel

• Microsoft OneDrive

• Microsoft Outlook 365

• Microsoft SharePoint

• Microsoft Teams

These connectors are compatible with Office 365 Commercial. Support for Microsoft connectors in Government Community Cloud (GCC) and GCC High is not currently available.

Qlik Application Automation connectors

Microsoft PowerPoint for reporting in Qlik Cloud Government

Qlik Cloud Government reporting capabilities now support Microsoft PowerPoint output for report compositions.

PowerPoint reporting capabilities

Pane for monitoring capacity consumption now supported in Qlik Cloud Government

Qlik Cloud Government administrators can now monitor capacity consumption in the new Home pane in the Management Console. This gives you an overview of the consumption of users, reports, and other capacity-based resources. You can also see the capabilities that are enabled with your subscription.

Monitoring resource consumption

New templates and connectors in Application Automation

Qlik Application Automation has added new templates and connectors. Three existing connectors have been updated.

New Automations templates

• Export an app to a shared space as a backup: This template is set up to export a Qlik Sense app from the source space to the target space. Note that both the source and target space defined must be a shared space since copying an app from/to a managed space is not allowed. You can modify this automation to alert team members about the status of the app export to the target space.

  How to export Qlik Sense Apps from source to a target shared space using Qlik Application Automation

New Automations connectors

• Basic Authentication connector: Basic Authentication is a connector meant for advanced users to connect to platforms that do not have a specialized Qlik connector. The connector uses a basic authentication flow that requires only a username and password. It has RAW API blocks that support all methods as well as pagination.

  How to get started with the Basic Authentication connector

  Getting started with generic connectivity

  How to build a write back solution

Automation connector updates

• Amazon SNS connector: Users can now register webhooks listening to events occurring in AWS and trigger the start of automations. This connector is limited to webhooks as a start event and can only listen to object creation events on S3. Use cases include listening to new S3 events and reloading a Qlik Sense app or triggering a data pipeline.

  How to get started with the Amazon SNS connector

• API KEY connector: New endpoints allow for cursor URL-based paging and cursor token-based paging.

• OAuth2 connector: New endpoints allow for cursor URL, cursor token, page number, and offset-based paging.