How to Interact with Qlik Sense interface

Last updated on Nov 16 2021
Praveen Chandra

Table of Contents

How to Interact with Qlik Sense interface

i. Touch Gestures

Remember and use the touch gestures given during this section if you’re employing a touch device to possess a hassle-free navigating experience in Qlik Sense apps.
• Action name: Tap
Gesture

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Tap gesture in Qlik Sense
Description: Selects what you’re tapping on. Works almost like the left-click of a mouse.
• Action name: Double-tap
Gesture

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Double-tap gesture in Qlik Sense
Description: almost like the double-click of the mouse.
• Action name: Swipe
Gesture

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Qlik Sense Swipe gesture
Description: Scrolls the lists and make selections in visualizations.
• Action name: Two-finger swipe
Gesture

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Two-finger Swipe Gesture in Qlik Sense
Description: Scrolling and panning.
• Action name: Two-finger tap
Gesture

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Two-Finger tap gesture in Qlik Sense
Description: Selects a variety of values from an inventory .
• Action name: Pinch
Gesture

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Qlik Sense Pinch Gesture
Description: For zooming in and out.
• Action name: Long-touch
Gesture

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Long Touch Gesture in Qlik Sense
Description: a. Selects and moves an object.
b. Opens the shortcut menu.
• Action name: Three-finger tap
Gesture

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Three Finger Tap Gesture in Qlik Sense
Description: Resetting the zooming level of a scatter plot.
• Action name: Long-touch and drag
Gesture

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Long Touch and Drag Gesture in Qlik Sense
Description: a. Moves a slide to a replacement location within the storytelling view.
b. Moves an item into a slide into the storytelling view.
• Action name: Two-finger selection
Gesture

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Two Finger Selection in Qlik Sense
Description: Makes a square selection during a visualization.
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ii. Keyboard Navigation and Shortcuts

In this section, we are getting to give all the keyboard keys or combination of keys which are wont to navigate in several sections of the Qlik Sense app.
a. Keyboard navigation within the hub
• Tab: Moves focus forward and a lively menu, this key will cycle between the menu options.
• Shift + Tab: Moves the main target back.
• Ctrl + G: For switching to a grid layout.
• Ctrl + Shift + L: to modify to list layout.
• Left + right arrows: Moves through a horizontal list focused , like during a grid view.
• Up + down arrows: Moves through a vertical list focused , like during a list view.
• Enter or Space: Selects the item focused .
• Ctrl + up arrow: Navigates to the primary item within the list.
• Ctrl + down arrow: Navigates to the last item within the list.
• Alt + N: To open ‘Create new app’ dialog.
• Ctrl + Delete: Opens delete confirmation dialog for selected apps.
• Shift + F10: Opens context menu for the chosen app.
• Esc: Closes a dialog or context menu.
• Up + down arrows: Shifts focus between app thumbnail in grid view.
b. Keyboard navigation within the app overview and toolbar
• Tab: Moves focus forward.
• Shift + Tab: Moves focus backward.
• Enter or Space: Opens the present focus.
• Esc: Closes an open menu.
• Right arrow: Moves the main target to subsequent sheet or story on the app overview page.
• Left arrow: Moves the main target to the previous sheet or story on the app overview page.
• Up arrow: Moves to subsequent bookmark on the app overview page.
• Down arrow: Moves to the previous bookmark on the app overview page.
• Ctrl + G: For switching to a grid layout.
• Ctrl + Shift + L: For switching to list layout.
• Ctrl + up: Moves to the primary item within the list.
• Ctrl + down: Moves to the last item within the list.
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c. Keyboard navigation during a sheet view
• Tab: Navigates forward between items within the toolbar and therefore the visualizations during a sheet.
• Shift + Tab: Navigates backward between items within the toolbar and therefore the visualizations during a sheet.
• Ctrl + Right arrow: Moves to subsequent sheet.
• Ctrl + Left arrow: Moves to the previous sheet.
• Ctrl + Home, Ctrl + Fn + Left (Mac OS): Moves to the primary sheet of the app.
• Ctrl + End, Ctrl + Fn + Right (Mac OS): Moves to the last sheet of the app.
• Right arrow: Moves to subsequent visualization within the row.
• Left arrow: Moves to the previous visualization object within the row.
• Up arrow: Moves to the visualization within the row above.
• Down arrow: Moves to the visualization within the row below.
• Ctrl + up arrow: Moves to the primary visualization within the sheet.
• Ctrl + down arrow: Moves to the last visualization within the sheet.
• Enter: Switches between the present visualization and its table representation.
• Shift + Enter or Space: To open the present visualization fully screen.
• Shift + F10, Alt + Shift + F10 (Internet Explorer 11) or Fn + Shift + F10 (Mac OS): Opens the context menu of the present visualization.
• Ctrl + E: Toggles sheet edit on/off.
d. Keyboard shortcuts
• Ctrl + P: To print the present view or active sheet/story.
• Ctrl + C: to repeat the chosen item. The item gets copied to the clipboard.
• Ctrl + X: to chop a specific item and replica it to the clipboard.
• Ctrl + V: to stick the most-recently copied item from the clipboard.
• Ctrl + Z: To undo an action.
• Ctrl + Y, Cmd + Shift + Z (Mac OS): To redo actions.
• Ctrl + H: To open online help within the context of the present function.
• Ctrl + F: To open smart search.
• Ctrl + E: To open and shut the editing of the chosen sheet.
• Ctrl + S: to save lots of changes to the app.
• Ctrl + O: To open an app file copied to the clipboard using Ctrl + C.
• Ctrl + A: to pick all code. It only works in data load editor and expression editor.
• Ctrl + D: To delete the content of the present line.
• Ctrl + K: To Comment or uncomment the chosen lines within the data load editor.
• Ctrl + 00: To insert a test script within the data load editor.
• Tab: To indent code within the data load editor.
• Shift + Tab: To outdent a code within the data load editor.
• Left arrow: Moves to the previous slide in storytelling view.
• Right arrow: Moves to subsequent slide in storytelling view.
• Up arrow: To scroll up during a table.
• Down arrow: To scroll down during a table.
• Ctrl + left arrow: Moves to the previous sheet within the sheet view.
• Ctrl + right arrow: Moves to subsequent sheet within the sheet view.
• Ctrl + Home, Cmd + Fn + Left (Mac OS): Moves to the primary sheet of the app within the sheet view.
• Ctrl + End, Ctrl + Fn + Right (Mac OS): Moves to the last sheet of the app within the sheet view.
• Esc: To exit play mode in storytelling view.
• Delete: To delete the chosen item.
• Backspace: To delete the chosen item.
• Enter: To perform the action for the active option or button.
• Ctrl + +: concentrate .
• Ctrl + -: Zoom out.
• Ctrl + 0: Reset zooming.
• Shift: to feature the sector as a filter pane, when held while dragging and dropping a field into a sheet.
iii. Exploring Apps on Small Screens
If you’re using Qlik Sense on a tool with alittle screen, then you’ll only make selections and navigate between different elements of the app. you can’t create or edit apps and sheets on small screens.
• In the tiny screen version, you get a navigation panel both at the highest and therefore the bottom of the app view. From the panel at the highest , you’ll access the hub, overview, and help. And, from rock bottom panel, you’ll access and browse sheets, stories, and visualizations. Also, you’ll select between portrait and landscape mode.
• On the hub, you’ll access the apps and streams depending upon the extent of allowed access into the stream.
• The sheets and visualizations are often viewed intimately on full screen. you’ll also make selections within the visualizations and open the exploration menu for the corresponding visualizations.
• You can use existing and make new bookmarks.
• Also, you’ll also just view the stories but cannot edit them.
iv. Right-to-left Reading Order
By default, the characters during a string are read from left-to-right during a Qlik Sense app. this is often referred to as the reading order during a Qlik Sense app. you’ll change the reading order and make it from left-to-right in cases once you are using Qlik Sense in languages like Arabic or Hebrew (which are read from left-to-right).
In such cases, the change in reading order changes alongside it things just like the orientation of the visualizations, all the texts displayed on the sheet etc. Although, the toolbar and edit panels don’t change. The order of reading can only be changed in unpublished apps.
v. Undoing and Redoing Actions
The actions performed while editing in sheet view or storytelling view are often undone or redone using the icons, and respectively. Keyboard shortcuts Ctrl + Z and Ctrl + Y. during a sheet view, all the actions are undone, if not saved, if you allow a sheet you were performing on or make any changes within the assets panel. And, in storytelling view, actions are undone once you leave the storytelling view without saving them, enter storytelling play mode, enter the sheet view via the shortcut menu.
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About the Course

Qlik Sense is a revolutionary Business Analytics tool to come from the Qlik stables. It provides powerful self-service analytics that are readily deployable through interactive and personalized dashboards, data visualization techniques and insightful reports. By the end of this Qlik Sense online training, you will be able to perform key skills of the self-service BI tool – Qlik Sense, such as self-service analytics, write data load scripts, data discovery, create dashboards, develop and share apps, create reports, and design and build data visualizations. All these skills will enable you to clear the Qlik Sense certification exam.

Why should you take Qlik Sense Training?

• The average annual pay for a Qlik Sense Professional is $101,871. -Indeed.com.
• HSBC, Alstom, Chrysler, Citibank, Accenture and many other MNC’s worldwide use Qlik Sense BI and it has a market share of around 5% globally.
• By the end of 2020, the market is expected to touch USD 22.8 billion as modern BI and analytics continue to expand more rapidly, Gartner said in a report.

What you will Learn in this Course?

Introduction and Installation of Qlik Sense
• Need for self-service Business Intelligence/Business Analytics
• Installation of Qlik Sense and Qlik Sense Desktop
Qlik Sense Features
• Qlik Data indexing engine
• Data dimensions relationships
• Types of Data Loading
• Types of Concatenation
Data Modelling
• Qlik Sense data architecture
• Understanding QVD layer
• Converting QlikView files to Qlik Sense files
• Incremental Load
• Scripting
• Create Master Calendar
Advance Data Modelling
• Qualify and unqualify
• Joins
• Keep
• Cross Table
• Let Vs Set
• Calendar Table Creation
Qlik Sense Enterprise
• Various Functions
• Create QVD Files
• Read Data for QVD Files
• Create QVD’s
• Create Tier 2 Qlik Sense App
Data Visualization
• Expressions
• Variables
• Extensions
• Data Visualization
Set Analysis
• Set analysis in Qlik Sense
• Use set expression like identifiers, operators, modifiers and comparative analysis
Advance Set Analysis
• Deploy comparison sets and perform point-in-time analysis
Qlik Sense Storytelling
• Storytelling feature of Qlik Sense
• Create a story and playback the story
Qlik Sense Visualization
• Qlik Sense Charts
• Advanced Charts
• Creating Dashboards
• Real Life Examples
Security
• Security aspects of Qlik Sense
• Security rules

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