topic On-demand report download in SaaS in Move to Qlik Cloud Analytics

On-demand report download in SaaS

SigveSolli1 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 10:45:26 GMT

Hi all

Our client has on-prem Qlik Sense and NPrinting. Today, they use the on-demand button to download reports generated in NPrinting. They are now considering migrating to Qlik Sense SaaS and that means retiring NPrinting.

How can on-demand reporting be achieved in Qlik Sense SaaS?

Requirements:

The user must be able to download the report in pdf format when it is suitable for them (on demand).
Each user must be able to customize the reports by selecting in fields.
The report must be delivered only to the user that ordered it.
The report has several visualizations and text neatly put together and must look good.

Re: On-demand report download in SaaS

Daniele_Purrone — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 08:05:21 GMT

Hi @SigveSolli1 ,

please refer to this post:
https://community.qlik.com/t5/Reporting-Service/Application-automation-Reporting/td-p/1970617

Also check this for a simplified "Active intelligence" solution for getting the current selections:
https://help.qlik.com/en-US/cloud-services/Subsystems/Hub/Content/Sense_QlikAutomation/tutorials/active-intelligence.htm

As for the "The user must be able to download the report in pdf format when it is suitable for them (on demand).", you can just store the reports on any place of your choice (Sharepoint, Dropbox, and so on) for the user to download.
A few examples:
https://community.qlik.com/t5/Official-Support-Articles/How-to-create-multi-page-PowerPoint-report-and-store-them-to/ta-p/2025290

https://community.qlik.com/t5/Official-Support-Articles/How-to-use-Qlik-Application-Automation-to-generate-sharing-links/ta-p/2048243

As for generating good-looking reports, you can refer to:
https://help.qlik.com/en-US/cloud-services/Subsystems/Hub/Content/Sense_Hub/Reporting/Create-reporting-service-report.htm?id=332#Creating%20a%20Qlik%20Reporting%20Service%20report

Hope this helps!

Daniele

Re: On-demand report download in SaaS

SigveSolli1 — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 08:25:02 GMT

Thank you @Daniele_Purrone ! I will certainly look more into this.

Sorry for the confusion, the point here is that the report is generated when the user decides the data is ready. The users first need to verify that the data quality is good enough.

In your first two links, I need to find out whether the automation can send the report by email only to the user that triggered it. Alternatively, they will need to find it in sharepoint with a filename depending on the selections made and time of report generation. Or maybe there are some other clever ideas.

Re: On-demand report download in SaaS

Albert_Candelario — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 06:07:13 GMT

Hello @SigveSolli1,

This might also be useful, have a look at it.

Solved: Qlik Application Automation Based on User's Select... - Qlik Community - 1851539

Cheers,

Albert