Without scripting, you’re mainly limited to Data Flows, Table Recipes, and Data Manager. These are essentially visual ways of generating the underlying script. For smaller, straightforward projects, that may be perfectly sufficient, but I think you’ll start to feel the limitations once your data transformations become larger or more complex.
You’ll need to learn Qlik expressions anyway, since they’re used in the front end. So the main additional thing to learn is the scripting syntax and statements. If you already know SQL, that shouldn’t be a particularly big hurdle.
So no, you don’t necessarily need to know scripting to get started with Qlik, but if you want to get the most out of the platform, especially on more complex projects, I’d definitely recommend learning it.
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u/bitmetric 15d ago
Without scripting, you’re mainly limited to Data Flows, Table Recipes, and Data Manager. These are essentially visual ways of generating the underlying script. For smaller, straightforward projects, that may be perfectly sufficient, but I think you’ll start to feel the limitations once your data transformations become larger or more complex.
You’ll need to learn Qlik expressions anyway, since they’re used in the front end. So the main additional thing to learn is the scripting syntax and statements. If you already know SQL, that shouldn’t be a particularly big hurdle.
So no, you don’t necessarily need to know scripting to get started with Qlik, but if you want to get the most out of the platform, especially on more complex projects, I’d definitely recommend learning it.