topic Re: Qlik Application Automation - refresh profile for data files in Qlik Automate

Qlik Application Automation - refresh profile for data files

psublue98 — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 19:38:04 GMT

Several data files across mulitiple spaces in the tenant either never had a profile created or are extremely out of date. In QAA I've come across patch and update dataset blocks, but I don't see a way to programmatically update the data profiles. The only way is to manually click on the profile refresh button. Is there a way in QAA?

Without updated profiles or a way to update via QAA users can't extract accurate row and field counts and other metadata.

Manual option

Re: Qlik Application Automation - refresh profile for data files

Supersmurf — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 13:38:11 GMT

Any news or findings on this topic? We have made an app using the Qlik REST API to get stats like updated time, file size and rows - and it is useless on row count and size if the profiling data is not automatically updated.

Regards

Jan

Re: Qlik Application Automation - refresh profile for data files

tolange — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 16:12:12 GMT

Good point, that would be valuable to have available as a block in QAA.

From what I see the endpoint that does the refresh is: /data-sets/{data-set-id}/profiles/actions/compute

I do not see this endpoint documented on qlik.dev so my assumption is that this endpoint is not "public".

A workaround could be to use the call URL block and execute the request yourself. That would also be my test once I find time some & have a use case.