This article will cover the Qlik Sense app overview interface. Note that some features of the interface may look slightly different depending on the product and version you are using.
The app overview is the first page you are taken to when you open any app or create a brand new app. When you create a new app, the app overview will look something like this:
Note that this is slightly different to how it looks once you load data into the app.
At this first open, there are 3 sections to the app overview:
- The top bar
- The app meta
- The app content
The top bar
On the right side of the top bar are the Qlik Sense global options such as the notifications, launcher menu and your user profile menu. Note that this is a screenshot of the Qlik Cloud product, these options will be different for Qlik Sense on-premise.
The other top bar options are app specific.
The leftmost ‘…’ is a menu to add data to the app, go to this ‘app overview’ screen and enable or disable the touchscreen mode. The ‘Add data’ options here are to add it from the data catalog (Qlik Cloud only) and files or other sources.
Clicking ‘Data catalog’ (Qlik Cloud only) will launch a pop-up where you can see datasets available to you and select the required one.
Clicking ‘Files and other sources’ will launch a pop-up that will allow you to manually enter data, upload files, pull on existing data connections or set up a new connection.
The second section of the top bar lets you navigate to the ‘Data manager’ or the ‘Data load editor’. Both of these are where you can load and transform data. The data manager is where you can do this visually, and the load editor is where you can do this through code.
The next two options in the top bar are greyed out but will become available once data has been loaded.
- Analyze sheet: this button will take you to the first sheet in the app.
- Narrate storytelling: this button will take you to the ‘story‘ area of the app. This is a native Qlik Sense presentation tool.
The final area is where the name of the app is. You can click this to toggle part 2, the app meta, in and out of view.
The app meta
The app meta section contains the app name, description, the date it was last reloaded and the date it was published (Qlik Sense on-premise only).
Clicking the pencil icon on the right allows you to edit the app name, description and thumbnail.
Clicking the cog allows you to change some global settings for the app such as switching on the insight advisor in the app, switching on chart level scripting (Qlik Cloud) and changing app appearance by changing various parameters.
The app content
When the app is first created, the app content shows you links to import data.
The ‘Data catalog’ option will launch the data catalog where you can see the datasets available to you.
Clicking ‘Files and other sources’ will launch a pop-up that will allow you to manually enter data, upload files, pull on existing data connections or set up a new connection.
The ‘Data load editor’ button will take you to the app’s data load editor where you can load and transform data.
When the app already has data loaded, the app content screen will change to look similar to this:
There are now x3 sections to the content:
- The top bar
- The public sheets
- The sheet workspace
The top bar
On the right of the top bar, you have a button to create a new sheet and a couple of buttons to toggle the sheet view as either a grid or a list.
On the left, you can toggle between different types of app content. App content includes sheets, bookmarks and stories. By default, the sheets view will be toggled on.
The public sheets
Public sheets are sheets that have been moved out of the sheet workspace for user consumption. You cannot edit a public sheet, it must be made private and put back into the workspace first.
Public sheets in Qlik Sense on-premise products
Note that when a sheet is made public in the on-premise versions of Qlik Sense, it first becomes a ‘community sheet’. Users are able to consume community sheets as public sheets, however, to make a sheet public it must also be ‘approved’. This is only applicable if a new sheet is created after the app is already published for public consumption. When the app is first published, all sheets created within it become public sheets by default.
The sheet workspace
The sheet workspace is where the sheets you are working on currently reside. There is also a button to create a new sheet here. You are able to ‘duplicate’ public sheets which would create a copy of the sheet in your sheet workspace.
