topic Re: How do you transfer an nPrinting 17 template from one environment to another? in Qlik NPrinting

How do you transfer an nPrinting 17 template from one environment to another?

wendywallace — Wed, 25 May 2016 20:03:02 GMT

We have installed nPrinting17 and developed a report for a customer. Now, we want to transfer that completed report or template to the customer's server which is also running nPrinting17. We see a way to import nPrinting16 to nPrintng17. How do we do the same from an nPrinting 17 report?

Re: How do you transfer an nPrinting 17 template from one environment to another?

Stephen_Jasionowski — Wed, 25 May 2016 20:33:45 GMT

Wendy - for the time being there isn't a way to migrate a single NPrinting entity (report, task, filter, etc.) between environments. Instead, you can backup the entire NP repository and migrate that between environments.

The process is outlined here: Backup and restore of a repository ‒ QlikView NPrinting

Re: How do you transfer an nPrinting 17 template from one environment to another?

jampierre — Wed, 15 Feb 2017 09:19:56 GMT

Hi Stephen,

I've just read this interesting thread.

Some months are passed after you replied to Wendy.

We installed NPrinting 17.2.3 and we would like to know if something is changed about it.

Is it now possible to transfer report or template from one environment NP 17 to another NP 17?

Thanks in advance

Best regards

Re: How do you transfer an nPrinting 17 template from one environment to another?

Vasiliy_Beshentsev — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 13:29:19 GMT

In the last version NPrint go to the C:\ProgramData\NPrinting\apps\

And go down... Than you will see templates/connection/reports.

Try to copy this folders to another environment NP 17.

Re: How do you transfer an nPrinting 17 template from one environment to another?

Vasiliy_Beshentsev — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 13:29:23 GMT

In the last version NPrint go to the C:\ProgramData\NPrinting\apps\

And go down... Than you will see templates/connection/reports.

Try to copy this folders to another environment NP 17.

Re: How do you transfer an nPrinting 17 template from one environment to another?

jampierre — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 13:51:49 GMT

Hi Vasiliy,

First of all thank you.

I will try the way you suggest to me.

That's for sure at the moment there's no way from NP17 to do that migration.

I hope in the next release it'll be possible.

Thanks again

Re: How do you transfer an nPrinting 17 template from one environment to another?

basegadshc — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 16:17:38 GMT

I've been watching for this functionality and constantly bugging Qlik to deliver this. It was slated for Feb 2017 release but I now am being told it will be July 2017. I hope Qlik moves fast on this as nPrinting is USELESS without the ability to migrate between environments (i.e., DEV to PROD).

To anyone considering the purchase of this software, don't! This should be part of the base platform and not a separate product that doesn't even support a basic development lifecycle.

Re: How do you transfer an nPrinting 17 template from one environment to another?

jampierre — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 16:28:05 GMT

HI Glenn,

Thank you.

I think this functionality is too important to avoid of implementing it on NP17.

I hope it'll be soon available.

Thanks a lot

Re: How do you transfer an nPrinting 17 template from one environment to another?

kschramm — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 20:31:32 GMT

Glen - I feel your frustration and we are also seeing that you cannot "repoint" a report to an application once it gets created. The original thought was build in test and then change the app (which is tied to the connection) to repoint to production so that you don't have to go through the pain of re-building something. Your post was from Feb and now it's almost Labor day 2017. We have also been searching even for a manual way to import from an NPrinting 17 report. All we have found are steps to export from Less than NP 17 to Greater than NP 17 but it does not help when you are not migrating but merely trying to get up and running.

Another feature that we want to bring back is the On Demand button as an extension so that you have more control in the QVW and not on the ribbon in Access Point. I know the old (V16 or less) version was very buggy, but you could at least control when you wanted to have a user have the ability to run it on demand. The current set up is the On Demand button shows up on ALL QVW's in Access Point even if there is an NP report built against it.

Hopefully something will get done soon. Regards

Re: How do you transfer an nPrinting 17 template from one environment to another?

Stephen_Jasionowski — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 20:49:51 GMT

Report migration is part of the September 2017 release.

There are also APIs available to build an extension in QlikView for On-Demand that will give you the same level of control as the old NP16 extension did.

Re: How do you transfer an nPrinting 17 template from one environment to another?

kschramm — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 00:51:35 GMT

Stephan - Thanks for the response. Can you provide any links to being able to use the On Demand feature in NP17 within the QVW where it can be conditionally controlled? We have not been able to find that anywhere. Also, when you say report migration, trying to determine what you mean exactly. Are you referring to where reports can be re-directed to a different connection so you test in one environment and then promote the QVW to prod and point the same report to that? Or....being able to easily copy a report that has been built already and point that to production after testing? Our specific environment is NP 17.4 and no previous NP versions. Again, thanks for the response. .

Re: How do you transfer an nPrinting 17 template from one environment to another?

Stephen_Jasionowski — Sat, 26 Aug 2017 21:44:36 GMT

Kurt - the connections would have to be the same in test and prod to promote. So it would be the latter of the two scenarios you described. There is a video here describing the process: Video Link : 5408

Re: How do you transfer an nPrinting 17 template from one environment to another?

Stephen_Jasionowski — Sat, 26 Aug 2017 21:49:08 GMT

As far as your other question, at the moment we do not have a way to conditionally control the on-demand add-on in the toolbar. You can limit which users are able to produce on-demand reports with their NPrinting user roles.

Can you please describe the use case for conditionality so we can consider it for future releases?

Re: How do you transfer an nPrinting 17 template from one environment to another?

stevedark — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 10:40:32 GMT

There is some new functionality for this in the September 2017 release of NPrinting, but I have not used it myself as yet...

Re: How do you transfer an nPrinting 17 template from one environment to another?

Peter_Cammaert — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 11:03:48 GMT

That's just for Reports. The connections-filters-users are to be recreated.

Re: How do you transfer an nPrinting 17 template from one environment to another?

stevedark — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 13:11:03 GMT

It's a start, I suppose...