This is the port of my Calendar Heatmap Extension to Qlik Sense.
Download it on github.com/stefanwalther/qsCalendarHeatmap
I have created this Visualization Extension for Qlik Sense for a customer who is presenting some dashboards in kiosk mode and wanted to include a QR Code to point to some offerings on their website.
You can download this Visualization Extension from GitHub.
I have created this tool for my daily work. Instead of always reinventing the wheel and setting up a project structure for Qlik Sense Extensions, I prefer to let it generated.
Project Site: https://github.com/QlikDev/generator-qsExtension
I hope will see you there – I’m sure it will be fund, and I am really lookking forward to see the results at the evening on Sunday!!!
BTW, I’ll also show you some new nice QlikView.Next related examples – if you like …
Regards Stefan
Who Should Attend?
This event is for Partner individuals with strong web and JavaScript skills. Participants will form groups of 2. If you do not have a buddy to team up with, don’t worry; the Qlik Hackathon team will find you a match with another participant.
What is the Hackathon?
Teams will be presented with several challenges involving the international humanitarian organization MedAir. Developers must use web skills, data, and the QlikView.Next APIs to achieve new insights and/or visualizations that best address the challenge. Every Hackathon participant will have hands-on access to QlikView.Next and its new capabilities in web integration, with ‘live’ enablement and support from internal QlikView experts moderating the event.
How to Register
Registration for the Qlik Hackathon is now open at http://qlikhackathon.eventbrite.com. Act fast as there are only 40 places available, to be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to be part of a day filled with technical web indulgence, exposure to QlikView.Next’s API capabilities, plus learning and competition to spark some fun!
In the last months I have received quite often the request to add a new feature to my WebPageViewer2 extension (you could even say it’s a bugfix): The extension did reload the web page on every QlikView refresh event (e.g. making any selections), even if the Url of the web page did not change.
There is now a new property called “Prevent reloading if Url does not change” which exactly does what many of you requested: Prevent reloading the Url if it does not change …
WebPageViewer2: New Property "Prevent Reloading if Url does not change"
Some weeks ago the chart type “Slope Graph”, invented by Eward Tufte in 1983, was first brought to my attention.
When I first saw it I thought that it would be quite easy to bring this chart also to the QlikView world. But after some research I realized that Slopegrahps have some drawbacks which are quite tricky to solve.
I have found quite a dozen of nice implementations out there but none of them was really satisfying me. So this little project was a perfect playground for me to understand challenges when creating chart-visualizations better. It really was the first project where I did not only adapt existing visualizations based on D3 to be used in QlikView, instead I created a new implementation of Slopegraphs in D3 (by combining several existing approaches).
Here is the result:
D3SlopeGraph QlikView Extension
Edward Tufte states: “Slopegraphs compare changes over time for a list of nouns located on an ordinal or interval scale” and he also first published and example in his book “The Visual Display of Quantitative Information” in 1983:
Slopegraph Example by Edward Tufte
The most important and relevant drawback of using Slopegraphs is that if you have a lot of dimensions with similar values the visualization becomes messy very quickly (see some screenshots below demonstrating this).
To overcome the above described drawback I have chosen a combination of several approaches based on the default visualization:
Default Visulization
Handling Conflicting Label
In the above displayed example you’ll see that three dimensions on the left side share the same value for 2012. Instead of displaying them upon each other the dimensions are shown one below the other.
Emphasizing Dimensions
If you hover a dimension, the current dimension will be emphasized / highlighted
Highlighting hovered dimensions
Displaying a Summary
While hovering a dimension a tooltip will be displayed with a short summary. This is especially useful if you have a lot of dimensions with little movement from one to the other time period:
ToolTip for hovered dimensions
Text Fadout for Colliding Labels
But there is still the issue that if you have a lot of dimensions with similar values that they will collide:
Label Collisions
There are many suggestions how this can be solved, I have chosen an interactive one where conflicting labels will be faded out if you hover a dimension:
Conflicting Labels - Resolution
Still to Many Dimensions & Messy Visualization
There are situation where all the above described solutions are not sufficient. Especially if you are using a lot of dimensions this can happen.
Messy result because of conflicting labels
There are two possible solutions:
Same data as above but with a larger plotting area (+ scroll-bars)
In my opinion it is really worth giving this type of chart a try (and I would not be surprised if we’ll see Slopegraphs much more often in the future). But this type of chart is also not a “generalist”, usage and configuration has to be considered with caution.
The solution called “D3SlopeGraph QlikView Extension” is published under MIT-license and free to use (but still, I am happy to hear your feedback!!!)
If you have any issues please post them here.
Stefan WALTHER
MediaBox Visualization Extension for Qlik Sense
Posted in Integration & Extensions, Qlik Sense
The idea behind the MediaBox Visualization Extension is to have on Visualization Extension for Qlik Sense which can serve different media types.
As of now the following media types are supported:
Screenshots
Roadmap
I am planning to support more media types, but I need your feedback! What are the media types you’d like to see supported by this visualization extension for Qlik Sense? So far these are the ideas I am working on
Download & Documentation
The project is published at GitHub: https://github.com/stefanwalther/qsMediaBox