qsog

Qlik Sense Object Grabber (Bookmarklet to get Qlik Sense object IDs).

Either create a bookmark yourself below, or go to https://withdave.github.io/qsog/ and drag the button to your bookmarks bar.

Demo of bookmarklet in a Qlik Sense app

Purpose

This bookmarklet is designed to be saved into a bookmark on your browser bar, and is a temporary way of allowing easy extraction of Qlik Sense object IDs.

Use

1. Create a bookmark and paste the following into the address section:

javascript:javascript:(function()%7Bfunction callback()%7Bconsole.log("For updates see https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fwithdave%2Fqsog")%7Dvar s%3Ddocument.createElement("script")%3Bs.src%3D"https%3A%2F%2Fwithdave.github.io%2Fqsog%2Fqsog.min.js"%3Bif(s.addEventListener)%7Bs.addEventListener("load"%2Ccallback%2Cfalse)%7Delse if(s.readyState)%7Bs.onreadystatechange%3Dcallback%7Ddocument.body.appendChild(s)%3B%7D)()

2. Navigate to a Qlik Sense sheet and click the bookmark. Each time you refresh or navigate away you will need to click the button again.
3. qsOG will place a green box containing the object ID in the bottom right of each object, and also log this information to the console.
4. To copy the object ID, click on the text to copy it to the clipboard

Tested configurations

Qlik Sense - Client Managed

• All 2017 releases
• All 2018 releases
• All 2019 releases
• All 2020 releases Qlik SaaS
• Working on 03/12/2020 - but host must be added to tenant Content Security Policy whitelist (e.g. add origin withdave.github.io with directive script-src)

Browsers

• Chrome 63
• IE11 (autocopy doesn't always work)

Updates

• 04/11/2019 - Repointed RawGit to GitHub.io (as the former is shutting down). Added minified script version.

Known issues

• The DIV I've picked to identify the object sometimes also selects blank space. I need to repoint this to use a different ID or class.
• Using a live link to github means the origin must be added to the CSP whitelist to work

Resolved issues

• The z-index was increased from 2 to 99999 to counter interactions with the Qlik Sense context menu. This causes overlaps when expanding objects to full screen and was reduced to 2 again. Appears to work correctly when Ctrl+C used to copy the value.
• Problems in versions of IE where the DIVs do not apply the correct styles. Fixed by setting properties differently.

Notes

• The bookmarklet was generated using an online tool: https://mrcoles.com/bookmarklet/