Qlik Sense - Change properties of identical objects in one go

[Manish_Kumar_]

Is there any way in Qlik sense by which We can change the properties of all the identical objects in one go(By identical I mean "type of Visualizations". Say I want to change properties of all the charts in my app). Almost like we can do in PowerBI with option called Format Painter. If anyone can suggest a workaround directly or indirectly using APIs, custom extensions or some public projects, that would be great as-

1. It will save a lot of time.

2. Will reduce manual efforts.

I already asked this Question here https://community.qlik.com/t5/New-to-Qlik-Sense/Qlik-Sense-Change-properties-of-identical-objects-in... in New to QlikSense board, but I have been directed here as the right place to ask. 

[deepanshuSh]

Hi, In my knowledge there is no such options as format painter in qlik, however to apply changes in properties you can use an extension by the name of beautify me.

[rwunderlich]

A kind of low tech but very flexible way to do this on an ad-hoc basis is:

1. Serialize the app to text files using a tool like qlik-cli app unbuild https://qlik.dev/toolkits/qlik-cli/app/app-unbuild

2. Use a text editor to do search and replace or manual edit in the files. 

3. Rebuild the app using qlik-cli build https://qlik.dev/toolkits/qlik-cli/app/app-build

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[Øystein_Kolsrud]

I guess it all depends on what you want to do, and in particular how often. But it is certainly possible to do these kind of things using the APIs if you are comfortable working with those. I have this project that I've used to correct certain odd backwards compatibility issues with combo charts that we ran into a couple of releases ago:

https://github.com/kolsrud/qlik-chart-reorienter/tree/main

It could be used as a starting point if you want to implements something that traverses and app and performs modifications. It's been designed for traversals of client managed installations though, so if you are using the cloud version, then the connection part would have to be modified as well.