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Qlik Sense February 2021

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Qlik Sense February 2021 | Our favorite new features

Qlik Sense February 2021 is here and these are some of our favorite new features.

Measures in expressions. Qlik developers everywhere rejoice as it is finally possible to reference master measures within expressions. This makes it a lot easier to reuse master measures and is a great productivity and governance improvement.

Hidden sheets. App creators can now show or hide sheets based on conditions. This makes it possible to target different user groups with the same app by tailoring the experience.

Merge command in script. A new “Merge” command is added to Qlik script that allows changed data to be loaded into a Qlik application without having to reload the entire data model.

See all the new features below.


Feature Demonstration

*Some features showcased in this video are only available to Qlik Sense Enterprise SaaS. Please refer to the feature list below for a complete view of the features available to Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows.

New Features | Qlik Sense on Windows February 2021

Augmented analytics

Business logic

Default Analysis Periods: Enables users to specify a default period for analysis when using Insight Advisor, for natural language questions that use terms such as “Month”, “Quarter” or “Year”.

Applying behaviors to logical models

Defining analysis periods with calendar periods

Building logical models for Insight Advisor with Business logic

Business logic tutorial

There is a new tutorial showing how to improve search-based analysis in Insight Advisor using business logic. By customizing the logical model and adding vocabulary, you can improve the experience for search-based analysis.

Tutorial – Customizing how Insight Advisor interprets data

Normalization for K-means clustering

Enhanced functionality in the K-means clustering function that enables the normalization of data to be selected and controlled by the user.

Ranking and clustering functions

KMeans2D – chart function

Insight Advisor Chat

Users now can take advantage of the multi-lingual natural language capabilities running on Qlik Cloud Services, as a remote service.

Using natural language searches

Visualizations

  • Grid Chart: A new type of visualization that provides a highly effective means of visualizing measures across two dimensions. Grid chart
  • Hidden sheets: App creators can now show or hide sheets based on conditions, Enables enabling them to target different user groups with the same app by tailoring the experience. Structuring an app using sheets
  • Master measures in expressions: Allows users to reference master measures within expressions, improving productivity and governance. Using master measures in expressions

Connectivity

  • New ODBC connector for Amazon Athena. Athena

Qlik Engine

  • Merge command in script: A new “Merge” command in Qlik script that allows changed data to be loaded into a Qlik application without having to reload the entire data model.
    • Note: This is only the engine functionality and for commercial use it will need additional functionality to allow “partial reload” to be exposed for scheduled reloads vs. via API.

Documentation improvements and additions

Improvements for data security and Section Access

Documentation for managing data security with Section Access has been revamped with a new organizational structure to highlight the levels of security through the use of data reduction. A clear explanation of Section Access concepts and more authorization script examples have been added.

Managing data security with Section Access

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