Qlik Sense Object Type Mapping

When you’re troubleshooting or diving into logs, it’s useful to have a mapping of object types. The name of an object is defined by the developer of that object, so there tends to be little convention – other some basic syntax rules and that Qlik Sense only allows one instance of the name per site.

Each object definition references the object type (qType)

Knowing what each type means is useful when inventorying a site for upgrade or migration.

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Get Qlik Sense Object IDs quickly

If you’re doing anything but vanilla Qlik Sense development, it’s likely you’ll need to get to the object IDs at some point. You can do this by appending /options/developer to the end of the page URL and clicking on each object in turn, or using dev tools – but that’s slow.

This bookmarklet makes getting the object IDs fast in Chrome (and, begrudgingly, IE11).

Animated demo showing adding of bookmarklet to chrome and displaying of object IDs
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