Loading your data

Once you have named and opened your app, you will get a screen where Qlik Sense asks you to load your data.

The getting started dialog

When you have this option before you, you can load data in several different ways. The easiest way is to drag and drop a spreadsheet or a file onto Qlik Sense, or to click on the Quick data load command and select the file in a file browser, as shown in the following screenshot:

Dropping a file onto an app

This will open a file wizard where you can tweak the details of how the file should be loaded so that you get the data you want, as shown in the following screenshot:

The file wizard

You can specify file type, whether the file contains empty lines at the top (before the data starts), whether the first line contains the field names or not, and so on. Make sure you get all the settings right before you click on Load data.

Clicking on Load data will store your settings and load the data; if everything goes well, you will get the following dialog...