QS Metadata Explorer

About

QS Metadata Explorer is a free and open Chrome extension designed to support Qlik Sense developers, analysts, and administrators in understanding, auditing, and optimizing their applications.

It integrates directly with your existing Qlik Sense session using the official Enigma.js library, ensuring that all operations are performed locally in your browser without exposing your data to any external service.

✅ No data leaves your environment
✅ No third-party servers or APIs involved
✅ Compatible with Qlik Sense SaaS (cloud) and on-premise deployments

🔑 Key Features in Detail

1. Qlik Utils – Metadata Exploration & Management

Explore and manage all types of Qlik Sense metadata:

- Scripts (view and export script metadata)
- Data Models (inspect structure and fields)
- Sheets & Visualizations (list, search, and analyze sheet objects)
- Fields, Dimensions, Measures, and Variables
- Bookmarks and Stories
- Users and Automations

Format and beautify the expressions.

Export metadata and data directly to Excel (.xlsx) files for documentation, auditing, or analysis.

Capture screenshots of Qlik Sense sheets as PNG images for quick sharing or reporting.

2. Application Optimization & Best-Practice Checks

Automatically analyze your Qlik Sense applications and receive optimization hints:

- Detect synthetic keys and circular references.
- Identify unused fields in the data model.
- Check granularity of data for modeling quality.
- Validate whether QVDs/Parquet are used where possible.
- Detect large or inefficient objects that may affect performance.
- Flag sheets with excessive visual objects (>15 objects).
- Ensure complex expressions are pre-calculated in scripts for performance.
- Suggest splitting QVF files for heavy data loads.
- Promote use of Master Items for design consistency.

Optimization checks include both automatic detection and manual best-practice guidelines to help you continuously improve your Qlik applications.

3. Function Catalogue – Ready-to-Use Resources

- A library of pre-built, reusable Qlik load scripts and expressions to accelerate development, including:

- Master Calendar (time dimension template)
- Generic Load (dynamic data loading)
- Recursive Folder Scan (scan and load files from subfolders)
- WildMap Expressions
- Variable Population from Tables

Each function is available with:

📘 Documentation (detailed usage info)
📋 One-click copy to clipboard
⬇️ Download for reuse in your environment

Additional functions will continue to be added over time.

🛡️ Security & Privacy

- Runs entirely client-side in your browser
- Uses your existing authenticated Qlik Sense session
- No additional authentication required
- No communication with external servers

ℹ️ Notes

- This is a personal and community-driven project, not an official Qlik product.
- It is provided free of charge and will remain free forever.
- Use at your own risk – while care is taken to ensure reliability, it is not officially supported by Qlik.

Beta v1.2.2 :
- Fix bookmark copy between apps
- Improve performance
- Fix property display in dark mode