November 29, 20225 min read

Top 6 online resources

The world of Qlik is constantly evolving. Especially since Qlik introduced a two-week release cycle with Qlik Cloud, there is something new to see almost every time you open Qlik. On top of that, Qlik's capabilities are very extensive, particularly when it comes to ETL scripting and visualization. So it's no surprise that even experienced Qlik users sometimes get stuck. Fortunately, there are many different resources available online where you can find the latest news or the solution to your problem. We asked our colleagues which resources they use most to find Qlik information, so we can share them with you too.

#1 The Qlik Community

One of Qlik's greatest strengths is its community. You can find it at community.qlik.com, although to be honest, you'll often end up on this page via Google. And not without reason. The Qlik community has been very active for years and is full of problems and their solutions. You'll also often find posts on the community from some of the gurus of the Qlik world, such as this classic by Henric Crönstrom (alias HIC) about the As-Of Table.

If your question hasn't been answered on the Qlik community yet, you can of course still ask it. In our experience, answers often come within a few days, usually with a good solution or line of thinking.

Finally, the community also hosts the “Design blog”, where Qlik employees present all kinds of different applications of Qlik.

#2 QlikView Cookbook

This blog is written by another superstar in the Qlik firmament: Rob Wunderlich. Rob is one of the initiators of the Qlik Master Summit and has been writing about Qlik since 2008. You can find his blogs at qlikviewcookbook.com. His blogs are full of advanced tips and tricks for writing scripts and expressions, optimizing the performance of your dashboards and using handy tools. The “Recipes” page is particularly interesting, offering ready-made “recipes” for solving common challenges in Qlik.

#3 Data on the rocks

Data on the Rocks is a blog that brings together several bloggers. Here you'll find blogs by Christophe Brault (Daily Qlik Challenge), Patrick Trehubujuluw and Karl Pover (Harvesting Wisdom), for example. Thanks to the large team of experienced bloggers from the Qlik world, new posts appear on this blog very regularly and almost every angle is covered, including the newer features such as Application Automation, the Insight Advisor and Advanced Analytics.

#4 Michael Tarallo on LinkedIn

Michael “Mike” Tarallo is above all a very familiar voice to many people in the Qlik world. That's because Mike does the voice-overs for many of Qlik's marketing videos. It pays to follow Mike on LinkedIn, as he regularly posts his own new videos announcing or explaining new features. He also regularly points to other interesting content produced by various Qlik employees. The “SaaS in 60” video series is especially useful. In this series, Mike shows a new Qlik Cloud feature in 60 seconds. The ideal way to get fully up to date during a short break!

#5 Ometis

Ometis is one of the largest Qlik consultancy firms and also regularly publishes blogs on its site. The monthly “What’s new in Qlik Cloud” blogs are particularly handy: in them, the Ometis writers round up all the small and large new features released over the past month. This makes it a lot easier to keep up with the changes to the Qlik Cloud platform.

#6 The Qlik help page

Perhaps a bit of a cheap shot to mention this one, as you probably already knew about it. Nevertheless, the Qlik help page is a very strong addition to your Qlik reading diet. These help pages contain descriptions of all functions, settings and objects in the Qlik ecosystem. The great thing about these help pages is that they always include examples, such as how to use that one script command. By the way, did you know you can open the help page directly from the script editor? Just click the ? in the bar at the top and then click the piece of script you want to know more about.

Bonus: WTF Visualizations

Sometimes you're completely stuck and don't really know how to visualize an insight. Of course, you can turn to the insight advisor for inspiration, but sometimes it also helps to see how not to do it. On viz.wtf, anyone who comes across a bad visualization can submit it, after which it ends up on the site's by now almost endless “wall of shame”. Not necessarily Qlik-related, but it's fine to have a laugh every now and then!

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Written by

Lennaert van den Brink

Cluster Manager/Senior BI Consultant