Butler Sheet Icons 5.0: interactive mode, air-gap support, and a fancy live dashboard

BSI 5.0 is the largest release yet: interactive wizards that build the command line for you, a --dry-run mode worth its name, a live view of runs in progress, much better support for air-gapped environments, and a doctor command that tells you why a run failed.

HelpButton.qs deepdive

HelpButton.qs deepdive: Move beyond basic help links to build a complete in-app support layer. Discover patterns for contextual documentation, structured bug reports, user feedback, inline tooltips, and multi-language support across Qlik Cloud and client-managed deployments.

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Know thy Qlik Sense repository database

Two open source PowerShell scripts for read-only analysis of the Qlik Sense client-managed repository db — table sizes, health metrics, user and group membership insights, and group bloat detection. This helps optimizing the repo db and improve performance in the Qlik Sense environment.

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HelpButton.qs 2.1 — Feedback, Tooltips, Theming, and 9 Languages

HelpButton.qs 2.1 adds a feedback dialog with star ratings, configurable tooltips for any Qlik Sense object, a theming system with built-in presets, and full translation support for 9 languages. Available for both Cloud and client-managed.

HelpButton.qs 2.0 — A customizable Help Button for Qlik Sense Cloud and Client-Managed

HelpButton.qs 2.0 adds a native Qlik Sense extension that works on both Cloud and client-managed, as an option to the original HTML injection variants. Customizable help menus, context-aware links, and built-in bug reporting — all configurable from the extension's property panel.

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Onboard.qs 1.5.0 — Selective Tour Export, Container Support, and Accessibility

Onboard.qs 1.5.0 adds selective tour export, layout container support, and accessibility improvements to the open source Qlik Sense onboarding extension. Works on Qlik Cloud and client-managed QSEoW.

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Interactive onboarding tours for Qlik Sense

Build guided, step-by-step onboarding tours for your Qlik Sense apps with onboard.qs. A visual tour editor, Markdown content, theming presets, and import/export — all in a single lightweight extension that works on both Qlik Cloud and Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows.

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Customizable help button for Qlik Sense

Add a custom Help button to your Qlik Sense toolbar with qs-help-button. Configurable links, context-sensitive URLs, and an integrated bug report dialog that auto-captures user, app, and sheet context. Open source, zero dependencies, installs in five minutes.

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qs-log-scanner: Open source tool for exploring Qlik Sense logs

Let's do a deep-dive into the logs of client-managed Qlik Sense (QSEoW), looking at what kind of logs it creates. The qs-log-scanner tool captures, groups, and visualizes log subsystems and log levels so you can understand which real-time signals exist for monitoring your Qlik Sense environment.

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Butler 15.0: Filling the gaps - monitor all task types in client-managed Qlik Sense

Butler 15.0 is a major release that extends monitoring and alerting to all task types in Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows. Previously, only reload tasks were fully supported. This release adds comprehensive support for external program tasks, user sync tasks, distribute tasks, and preload tasks.

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Profiling Qlik QVD files in VS Code

Analyze QVD field distributions directly in VS Code with Ctrl-Q QVD Viewer's new profiling feature. Get interactive charts, statistical analysis, histograms for numeric fields, and export results as Qlik .qvs scripts

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Viewing QVD Files in VS Code

When you're developing Qlik Sense applications, QVD files are often used as part of your data architecture. Historically it's been hard to view the data in them outside of Sense or QlikView - that changes now with a new extension for VS Code!

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Butler Sheet Icons 3.8.0: New features overview

The latest release of Butler Sheet Icons (BSI), version 3.8.0, introduces several practical features to enhance your experience with Qlik Sense sheet thumbnails. Here’s a breakdown of what’s new and how to use it.

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Butler 13.0: Unifying Qlik Sense reload monitoring across cloud and on-premise

Butler 13.0 provides consistent, rich reload alerts for both client-managed and cloud versions of Qlik Sense in one powerful tool. Simplify your Qlik Sense monitoring and never miss a beat, whether you're in the cloud or on-premise.

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Butler SOS 10.2 released

Butler SOS 10.2 focus on making it easier to monitor large Qlik Sense environments. New major features include (very!) flexible categorisation and visualisation of Qlik Sense log events, as well as visualisation of Butler SOS' config file.

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Built-in cache warming in Qlik Sense - first impressions

Client-managed Qlik Sense 2024-May adds built-in cache warming. This post takes a quick first look at this feature, comparing it to the Butler CW tool that does the same thing, but as a standalone tool.

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Automate Qlik Sense logins from PowerShell

Tech deep-dive where we look at how users can be automatically logged into Qlik Sense to generate realistic, artificial load on the system. PowerShell and Selenium is used to automate Chrome.

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Automatically recover unused Qlik Sense licenses

The latest version of Butler adds monitoring of Qlik Sense licenses and automatic release of unused licenses. This can both save money and reduce the risk of users not getting access to your Sense environment.

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Manage Qlik Sense user sessions in style

Managing user sessions in client-managed Qlik Sense can be tricky or even outright difficult in large Sense environments. Ctrl-Q includes powerful tools that makes this work easier!

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Automate Safari browser using macOS Script Editor

Using AppleScript the Safari browser can be remote controlled, automatically logging several users into Qlik Sense.

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How to start on-premise Qlik Sense tasks from anywhere

Start Qlik Sense reload tasks from anywhere, using a single http call. Can be very useful when source systems need to trigger data reloads in Sense. The solution is low cost and can be made as secure as needed using Azure Event Grid and Function Apps.

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Visualise Qlik Sense reload tasks using Ctrl-Q

Ctrl-Q lets you visualise Qlik Sense task dependencies as trees or - as of Ctrl-Q 3.15 - network graphs! This gives an unprecedented overview of complex task chains in any Qlik Sense Enterprise environment.

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SenseOps 2023-Q4 summary

Summary of what's new in the various Butler tools. Better real-time monitoring of Qlik Sense via Butler SOS, Azure support for the original Butler and bulk task import in Ctrl-Q.

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Ctrl-Q 3.14: Bulk task export/import for Qlik Sense

Ctrl-Q version 3.14 improve stability for task-related commands. Bulk operations on reload and external program tasks are now both more flexible and stable.

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Low-code find-replace in Qlik Sense app load scripts

Manually update app load scripts can be extremely time consuming. Ctrl-Q NR can assist in that use-case by both identifying apps that should be updated, doing a find-replace operation of all apps' load scripts, and finally reloading the apps.