Creating analytics with Qlik Sense

Apps can be added in the Create page of the Analytics activity center by users with Professional or Full User entitlement. Other users can view and interact with apps in spaces to which they are members. If they have permission in the shared or managed space, they can add content such as sheets and stories to the apps.

There are different ways of developing apps and sharing them. Here is a sample app lifecycle:

1. Create your app

   Create a new app and develop it in the Analytics activity center. If you want to develop the app collaboratively, you can add the app to a shared space.

   Creating apps and adding data

   Working in spaces

   If you own an app that you want to use as a template, you can duplicate that app and then edit the copy.

   Duplicating apps

   You can also import an app, such as one exported from another deployment of Qlik Sense.

   Uploading apps

2. Add data

   If you created a new app, you can add new data sources or use existing data sources from your personal or shared spaces and build your data model.

   Loading and modeling analytics data

   If you copied an app, you can change the data sources, revise the data model, and then edit the sheets and stories. If you duplicate an app containing data sources you do not own, you will need to add those sources.

   If you uploaded an app, you need to add the original data sources to the app again. You can also add new data sources and change the content.

   You can build your data model collaboratively with other members of shared spaces. For more information, see Collaboratively developing data load scripts in shared spaces.

3. Develop your app

   Once you have added your data, you can start creating sheets and visualizations. Visualizations are charts and other objects that visualize your data. App users can make selections in the visualizations to change the data displayed in your app. You use sheets to present related visualizations within an app, such as a dashboard.

   Working with sheets

   Working with visualizations

   After you add your sheets and visualizations, you can optionally add stories and bookmarks to your app. Stories collect snapshots from your app so you can share insights you have discovered with other users.

   Sharing insights with data storytelling

   Bookmarks allow you to save your current analytic selections of data in your app. These can be shared with other users so they can quickly apply useful selections to sheets in your app.

   Bookmarking selections

4. Make your sheets and stories public

   Your sheets and stories are private until you make them public. If you are sharing your app with other users, make sure you make them public.

   Granting access to sheets, sheet groups, bookmarks, and stories

5. Create a data reload schedule

   You can create scheduled reloads of your data to make sure your visualizations reflect the most up to date information.

   Reloading app data

6. Share your app with other members

   You can share your personal app with other users by moving the app to a shared space. You can also publish the app to a managed space.

   Working in shared spaces

   Working in managed spaces

7. Update your app

   As app owner, you may receive feedback from your app users. A shared app can be updated at any time. You can make sheets and stories private again to work on them further. You can make changes to the data model.

8. Retire the app

   When the app is no longer required, you can delete it.

   Deleting apps