Qlik Sense API Essentials

Welcome to Qlik Sense API Essentials, this course will help you grow your skills if you are in a Qlik environment or learning Qlik Sense.

All file resources are uploaded in the respective sections; feel free to download and make use of them.

In this course, you will learn about APIs that can be implemented in mashups and extensions.

• Easily integrate HTML and CSS into Qlik Sense Extension and Mashup

• Create a basic extension or Mashup and customize them as per your liking.

• Working with JavaScript or jQuery in mashups and extensions

• Basic custom Qlik Sense Themes

• Use CSS in Qlik Sense Themes, which helps in beautifying Qlik sheets.

• Use JSON property to customize Qlik Sense Charts using Qlik Sense Themes

Good or Basic Understanding of,

• HTML and CSS related to web development will be a great advantage.

• JavaScript and jQuery

• JSON

• Qlik sense development, i.e. understanding of frontend, backend, visualization, variables, etc.

Qlik Sense Mashup API,
In the context of web development, a mashup is a web page or web application that uses content from more than one source to create a single new service displayed in a single graphical interface, It comes with a number of Capabilities and other client-side APIs that can be used for building mashups.

1. Field API

2. Navigation API

3. Variable API

4. Bookmark API

5. Table API, i.e for export option

Will also look into Qlik Single Integration, which helps in generating a URL for an object or sheet.

Qlik Sense Theme API,
The Theme API is the external interface to Qlik Sense themes. It allows customization of visualizations, including extensions and widgets, outside of Qlik Sense.

1. Sheet Object styling using CSS.

2. JSON structure for theme.json

3. Theme Editor using Dev-Hub.

Qlik Sense Extension API,
The Extension API consists of methods and properties used to create custom visualization extensions.

1. Field API

2. Navigation API

3. Variable API

4. Bookmark API

5. Table API, i.e for export option

6. Backend API

7. Extension API

Qlik Sense Enigma JS,
enigma.js is a library that helps you communicate with Qlik QIX Engine. Examples of use may be building your own browser-based analytics tools, back-end services, or command-line scripts.
NOTE: This will be enabled and used in Qlik Extension and Mashup

1. Field API

2. Variable API

3. App API

4. Global API

Qlik Sense QRS API

1. We will use QRS API in extension to reload an application (This is for the use case where the analyzer license user wants to reload the application)

2. Ideas & where can this be used.

These are widely used, so in this video series, you are going to use and learn these APIs to meet your development challenges.

HOPE YOU LEARN & DEVELOP BEAUTIFUL EXTENSIONS / MASHUPS / THEMES FOR YOUR ORGANIZATION.

Thank You all, Will appreciate your comments & responses.