May 30, 2023: What’s New in Qlik Cloud?

Chart animations for bullet and line charts

Animations can now be turned on for the following chart types:

• Bullet charts

• Line charts

Chart animations are the gradual transitions in a visualization from the old view to the new view when data has been changed, for example, after a selection has been made. Animations can be turned on or off under app settings.

Changing the chart animations

Direct Query supports new data connection types

You can now connect to several new databases using Direct Query:

• Azure SQL

• Azure Synapse Analytics

• Microsoft SQL Server

• PostgreSQL

Direct Query allows analytics applications to directly query cloud databases with SQL pushdown as users interact with data through visualizations and filtering. App developers can use Direct Query to build SQL-centric applications for big-data analysis or near real-time scenarios.

Accessing cloud databases directly with Direct Query

Process data changes incrementally using the high watermark method

In storage data tasks for registered data the update method Incremental using high watermark has been added. You can now process data changes incrementally using the high watermark method. A watermark column with an incrementing value is used to detect changes in the data.

Registering data that is already on the data platform

Updates to styling for button objects

App developers can now style button objects. You can change fonts, labels, and layout.

Styling the button

New Amazon SNS Connector for Qlik Application Automation

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) is a web service that coordinates and manages the delivery of messages to subscribing endpoints or clients. This connector only has webhooks available.

Qlik Application Automation connectors

How to: Getting started with the Amazon SNS connector in Qlik Application Automation

Direct Access gateway hot fix for excessive CPU utilization

Qlik Data Gateway – Direct Access 1.3.1 is prone to excessive CPU utilization in certain scenarios. Version 1.3.2 resolves this issue and contains no other changes. To prevent CPU-related failures, we encourage all customers to upgrade to version 1.3.2 immediately.

For information about how to upgrade, see Upgrading the Direct Access gateway installation.