Use of Extensions

Extensions, as the name suggests, allow you to extend the power of Qlik Sense by creating your own charts and graphs using the Qlik Sense APIs. Assume that you want to show some analysis to your business users but it cannot be shown using the available visualization library. In such cases, Qlik Sense allows you to create your own charts and use them in Qlik Sense application.

Qlik Sense has exposed several APIs to extend the capabilities of Qlik Sense. One of such APIs is visualization API. These are the same APIs that are used by Qlik Sense to create its own inbuilt visualizations.

If you are well versed with web technology like HTML and scripting like JavaScript, then you can easily create your own extensions. You can ...

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