MENUBAR

The MENUBAR allows for vertical and horizontal buttons and selections (fields, drill-down dimensions, master dimensions and variables) as well as unlimited trigger based Actions.

In addition, you can share apps with the current selection with a single click, as well as conveniently chain documents including current or changed selections to navigate between apps.

This visualization extension supports Qlik Sense® from version 3.0.0 up to latest version February 2019 including exporting and story mode capability.

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MENUBAR Example

Features

Responsive vertical and horizontal design Dynamic font sizing optional responsive font sizing depending on the width of the MENUBAR object Hide elements in Sense mobile view optional hide elements in mobile view
Create buttons and assign Triggers and Actions to
- navigation through Qlik Sense and within self-created mashups,
- one click app sharing and document chaining,
- make selections (upon button click, after page loading, after selection, bevor navigation or based on your own JS-based custom trigger event),
- created individual actions based on your own JS code,
Alternate state support for all supported Qlik Sense versions from 3.0
Comprehensive Button Editor for button styling,
Create Select widgets to make selections from (drill-down) dimensions or use sliders for it.
Create Date Picker widgets to select single, multi, range dates and custom ranges by one click
Create Variable widgets to set variable values just by a click, with variable sliders or by a variable input boxes
Sheet styling use colors or images to style the sheet background
Maximum space gain by optionally hiding the Qlik Sense® menus (menu, selection and title bar) and Toggle fullscreen action
Reduction of visual noise by optional hiding of snapshot and maximizing buttons

Update

What is new in MENUBAR v1.4.x

New name and logo With version 1.4.0 the extension got renamed and is now called MENUBAR. With the new name the MENUBAR also got a brand new logo.

New Element Field Slider The Field Slider allows to select values of a dimension with a slider component.

Field Slider examples

Dynamic font sizing The option to set the font size dynamically allows for responsive font sizing depending on the width of the extension object.

Hide elements in Sense mobile view Now you can hide MENUBAR elements when Qlik Sense is in mobile mode. Just activate the checkbox in the property panel and the element is not active in Sense mobile mode. Inactive elements dont trigger any actions or behaviors such as the default selections.

Individual colors for all elements Individual colors can be defined for every element of the MENUBAR. There is no limitation on what you want to style. Even the funkiest MENUBAR can now be designed.

Individual Colors

Option to style sheet background The option to style the sheet background allows you to style the Sense sheet background with an image, color or both. This also works in storymode if a MENUBAR elements is placed on the slide and has an active background styling.

Sheet with Background styling

Showcase

Selection and navigation

Triggers and actions

Prerequisites

Qlik Sense® Support

MENUBAR supports Qlik Sense® from version 3.0.0 up to currently latest version June and upcoming version February 2019 including exporting and story mode capability.

nPrinting Support

The MENUBAR does support nPrinting from version June 2018.

Browser Support

At present MENUBAR supports the browsers listed below:

Microsoft Internet Explorer 11
Microsoft Edge (lastest version - v42, at the time of writing)
Mozilla Firefox (latest version – v65, at the time of writing)
Google Chrome (latest version – v72, at the time of writing)
iOS 10.3.2 or later ** We recommend upgrading to iOS 11.2.2 or later.

The indicated versions are the minimum conditions. In each case, the latest version is to be preferred.

Download and installation

Here you will find the free trial version, which can be used directly in Qlik Sense®. The free trial version contains the full feature set of MENUBAR, but has as an addition a fix MENUBAR element at the end which shows the logo and provides a link to the trueChart homepage (https://www.truechart.com/demos-products/menubar/).

For information about the full licensing or trial version of the MENUBAR, please get in contact: info@highcoordination.de.

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Qlik Sense Desktop

For Qlik Sense Desktop, simply extract the contents of the ZIP file to your Documents/Qlik/Sense/Extensions folder.

Qlik Sense Server

Enter the QMC and navigate to Manage Resources → Extensions
Click the Import button at the bottom,
In the pop-up dialog, click on Choose File to browse the downloaded folder,
Click on Import.

Build

In order to further develop the MENUBAR, the git-repo must first be cloned. Next, run the setup.sh script. It will install npm dependencies for all modules.

Then perform the following step inside the tcmenu folder to build an extension that can be used in Qlik Sense®:

npm run build
npm run zip -> builds/tcmenu-[version]_dev.zip

Or just run npm start inside the tcmenu folder. This will build the MENUBAR, move it to the Documents/Extension folder and watch for changes.

Documentation

The MENUBAR also includes a complete user documentation and from installation, configuration to use everything is explained. The documentation can be accessed through properties panel Display → Info via link Online Manual or directly here User Manual.

Contacts

License

This project is licensed under the terms of the Apache 2.0 license.

The project published here can be used directly, but without support. For MENUBAR a commercial license including support can be purchased via HighCoordination. In particular, this includes support for future versions of Qlik Sense® and technical support.

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If you have any questions regarding licensing - please contact us.

HighCoordination / trueChart-Menubar4Sense

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