Now Live: Qlik Sense SaaS Simplified Authoring – Analytics Creation for Everyone

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We are excited to announce the release of Simplified Authoring, a new Qlik Sense SaaS creation interface that surfaces frequently-used components, so you can easily build beautiful and sophisticated charts and visualizations. Particularly helpful for new and less-experienced users, this intuitive all-in-one experience offers a short learning curve, advanced filtering options, and the ability to explore your data as you perform analysis. This extends governed self-service analytics to more users than ever across your organization and further reduces reliance on analysts and IT.   

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At Qlik, we continually look for ways to improve the user experience and make it easier for you and your organization to make data-driven decisions and take action. Feedback from customers like you combined with technology from our 2020 Knarr Analytics acquisition drove the features of Simplified Authoring, which include:   

Assets Panel: Classifies field types and, when fields are expanded, shows values; also displays master items (dimensions and measures), which can be selected for your chart or visualization. 

Properties Panel: Includes a Data area; Autochart, which provides more than 30 visualization choices; allows you to include or exclude dimension values by ticking boxes; and Presentation area, where you can choose sorting, coloring, labeling, styling, tooltips, and axis options.  

SmartGrid: Acts as a placeholder for your visualizations, which automatically adjusts the size, so they fit within your sheet. You can easily add charts by clicking on “+” to the right and below the grid.  

Data Table: Explore your data and inspect fields and values from tables loaded within Qlik Sense SaaS. Make selections within the table to pinpoint areas of interest and analysis.  

If you prefer the classic look and feel or require the full set of properties for your use cases, simply click on the toggle in the upper right-hand corner for Advanced Authoring.  

Check out the following Simplified Authoring resources for more information:  

• Introductory Blog Post  
• Walkthrough 
• OnDemand Webinar 
• Qlik Learning Module 
• Datasheet 

We will continue to build out more capabilities as we obtain additional feedback on Simplified Authoring. 

[VRK]

This Simplified Authoring tool  could easily be the most annoying feature on SAAS tool! 

Is there a way to turn this off ?  Opening up 4GB plus app simply kills it and is very very slow ! 

[lachlanwwells]

I agree with the above - could be useful for users without app development skill, however it gets very annoying having to toggle it on and off all the time, especially seeing as it seems to just be enabled for a variety of reasons.

A configuration in the user profile to disable/enable the Simplified Authoring experience would be very helpful

[robert99]

Hi @VRK 

Agree 100% with you. Sadly, Qlik seemed to lose focus for a time. This was a strange decision. As was chart scripting. Qlik can't really afford too many of these decisions. 

But now they seem to be back in focus. The new formatting options are excellent and I hope they continue and finish it off. And fix some obvious oversights.  The new straight table has potential but a lot more needs to be done. And why not update the current straight table with these new features. But get the key improvements done - the Pivot table needs lots of work - not get sidetracked by unnecessary changes or new releases.

And it would be good as you said to switch this Simplified Authoring tool off. Or at least make the classic one the default option.

[AlexOmetis]

It does feel like they release these new things - the new simplified authoring and the new straight table being examples - and then just leave them alone rather than quickly gathering feedback and iterating to make them truly useful. I have a whole load of things that I'd like to see in both the simplified authoring and straight table to make them truly useful... but right now they're just not quite finished I'd say. 

It's like they do one big release and then move on to the next thing, considering it done, rather than entering a period of hypercare or similar to make sure it actually meets the needs they were trying to address. It's very exciting to get access to these new things, but it feels like they go stale a little quickly.

That's not true of things like QCDI mind you - that's really come a long way over the last few months. Perhaps it's just different teams having different resourcing / priorities / approaches...