widget-tutorial/src/subjects/widgets-vs-visualization-extensions/readme.md

A comprehensive tutorial + recipes to get started with widgets in Qlik Sense.

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title: "Widgets vs. Visualization extensions"
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Widgets and visualization extensions try to achieve the same goal: **_Bring new custom visualizations to Qlik Sense_**.  
It is therefore a very legitimate question, when to use which of those two approaches.

Here are some guidelines:

**Use the concept of widgets if:**

- You have no (web-)programming skills and don't want to investigate too much time.
- You have decent Html/CSS skills or you want to invest 1-2 days to learn those fundamental building-blocks of the web.
- You have some Html/CSS code-snippets resulting into a custom visualization and you'd just like to bring those into Qlik Sense.
- You (as a partner) would like to share a library of custom visualizations with your customer.
- You would like to create a set of Corporate Design aligned visualization which can then be used by all Qlik Sense users.
- Time to value is key for you.

**Use the concept of visualization extensions if:**

- You have decent skills (web-)programming skills, especially covering JavaScript.
- You need to include an external library (e.g. charting-library) into your custom visualization.
- You need to add (whatever) piece of JavaScript to your custom visualization.