Mastering Qlik Sense
by Ralf Becher, Karl Pover, Jason Michaelides, Dilyana Ivanova, David Alcobero, Martin Mahler, Juan Ignacio Vitantonio
Expressions
Try to leverage the powerful associative Qlik Engine as much as you can by implementing your settings as expressions as much as possible. This will allow your users to use Qlik expressions, variables, and even dynamically define your chart properties using conditions. Variables, in particular, are a compelling reason to have each setting available set as an expression because you can then control settings of multiple charts of the same kind across an app or a collection of apps via variables—this reduces technical debt.
The challenge here lies in the fact that sliders, button groups, and other native custom components that improve the user experience do not support expressions. As such, one way to overcome the limitation is to ...
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