Mastering Qlik Sense

Create visualizations on the fly

Embedding charts and objects into your web apps and mashups using getObject() is a perfectly viable method, but it carries three significant disadvantages:

• You need to manually create and maintain the object within the Qlik Sense app, which is an overhead
• You need to retrieve the Object ID somehow, and then, most likely, hard-code it into the mashup code if you wish to return a specific chart
• If you recreate the chart from scratch, you will then need to update the mashup with the new Object ID

Furthermore, you can only retrieve the objects as you cannot modify them further.

Precisely for these reasons, Qlik has released the ability to create visualizations on the fly. This allows you to programmatically ...