What’s New in Qlik Cloud

Data Analytics

December brings a wide range of updates across Qlik Cloud Analytics, Qlik Automate, and platform administration. This month focuses on clearer workflows, stronger security, easier reporting, and continued expansion across global cloud regions. The automation enhancements will make the creation dynamic custom reports significantly more engaging to the recipients. Read on for an overview of everything new.

1. Auto-Generated Sheet Thumbnails

Qlik Cloud now creates thumbnails for sheets automatically. This helps you:

• Recognise sheets faster
• Avoid manual screenshots
• Maintain a clean and consistent look across your apps

This improves navigation and speeds up the process of finding the right content.

2. HTML Reports in Qlik Automate

You can now produce HTML reports using the Qlik Reporting connector in Qlik Automate. Two options are available:

• Get HTML Report: Generates an HTML file for distribution
• Get HTML Report As Text: Returns raw HTML text for use in other blocks

This gives you more flexibility when building automated reporting workflows.

3. Microsoft Outlook Connector: Attachment Support

The Outlook connector in Qlik Automate now supports email attachments. You can attach files to outgoing emails, making automated communication workflows more complete.

4. Concurrent Automation Runs

You can now allow multiple runs of the same automation to occur at the same time. This can be configured:

• Per automation
• Globally in the Automations section of the Activity Centre

This is useful for high-volume, event-driven processes.

5. Qlik Cloud Expands to France

Qlik now offers a new cloud region in France, supporting organisations that need local data storage, improved regulatory alignment, and low-latency access. This is the thirteenth global region, continuing Qlik’s cloud expansion across key markets.

6. Custom Width for Bar Charts on a Continuous Axis

Bar charts now support custom unit widths when using a continuous axis. This allows bars to represent consistent periods or numeric ranges such as:

• Years
• Quarters
• Months
• Any numeric width you define

This delivers clearer comparisons when working with time-based or scaled data.

7. Dismissible Warning and Info Dialogs

Informational and warning dialogs in Qlik Cloud apps can now be dismissed permanently during a session. This reduces interruptions and improves editing efficiency.

8. Area for Line Added to Combo Chart

The combo chart now supports filled areas beneath line series. You can also stack areas to show cumulative values. This creates clearer visibility of data magnitude, not just trend.

9. Table Recipe: New Filtering, Null Handling, and Usability Enhancements

Table Recipe receives several improvements that make no-code data preparation faster and easier.

• More Flexible Filtering
  To give users more precise control when shaping data, users can now:
  • See more suggested values during filtering
  • Apply All / Any / None logic when comparing multiple conditions

• Better Null and Empty Handling
  Qlik Cloud now:
  • Differentiates between null and empty values when filling cells
  • Shows suggestions when a column contains nulls or empty values, such as filling values or removing rows.

• Duplicate and Convert to Data Flow
  Users can now expand a Table Recipe into a full Data Flow. When converted, the Data Flow automatically contains the Table Recipe as a processor, allowing you to extend the logic with multi-source or multi-target operations.

• In-Context Guidance
  Tooltips now appear directly in the configuration panel for each step, providing quick help and links to documentation.

10. Data Flow: Enhanced Troubleshooting and Productivity Tools

Data Flow receives a major set of quality-of-life updates to make building, debugging, and managing flows much faster.

Key improvements include:

• Clearer error details with direct links to problematic nodes
• Keyboard shortcuts for actions like undo and redo
• Field search in the data preview panel
• Highlighted fields to show which fields are impacted by a selected processor
• One-click script copying
• Direct link to logs after failed runs
• Cleaner configuration forms
• Inline renaming of nodes
• Visual warnings for sources the user cannot access

Together, these updates reduce the time spent investigating issues and help users keep large data flows organised.

11. Qlik Analytics Migration Tool

The latest version of the Qlik Analytics Migration Tool is now available. This release improves stability, reduces errors, and increases performance during migration tasks. The update contains several fixes and refinements that make project execution smoother and more predictable.

12. Direct Access Gateway 1.7.8 Update

The latest Direct Access gateway release includes:

• Support for New Databricks OAuth Authentication
  Both options follow OAuth 2.0 and support Databricks-managed or Microsoft Entra ID-managed accounts:
  • OAuth Service Principal
  • OAuth User Account

• Custom Starting Port Configuration
  You can now override the default port used for process isolation. This helps if the default port is already in use.

13. Enhanced Webhook Security

Webhook security has been strengthened with encrypted header values for credentials such as tokens and keys. Secrets are write-once, meaning they cannot be viewed or retrieved after saving. Existing webhooks continue working but can be updated to use encryption.

14. Qlik Automate Connector Updates

Two enhancements are now available:

• Do Reload block can be set to fail when a reload fails
• Raw API Request blocks in Qlik Cloud Services and Qlik Platform Operations now support the Report-Templates API

15. New Allow List Configuration for REST and File Connectors (via Direct Access Gateway)

You can now manage Allow Lists for REST and File connectors through the Administration activity centre and the Public API. This removes the need to manually edit configuration files and gives administrators a simpler way to restrict which URLs or file paths the gateway can access.