topic NPrinting 17.1 - export HTML to destination (folder) issue in Qlik NPrinting

NPrinting 17.1 - export HTML to destination (folder) issue

Lech_Miszkiewicz — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 23:37:35 GMT

Hello everyone.

I am facing silly issue with NPrinting 17.1 when trying to export HTML report to specific folder destination. It sort of works. Report is distributed to destination (ZIPPED FOLDER, folder name is is the report name, but HTML file inside has scrambled name and is referencing to other files sitting in "Documents" location.

What i want to achieve is:

export to particular folder HTML report which will not be zipped, and html file will have always the same name
also if possible i would like to have all related files (images etc) in subfolder there

Is that possible?

Any help will be much appreciated

kind regards

Lech

Re: NPrinting 17.1 - export HTML to destination (folder) issue

Daniel_Jenkins — Mon, 19 Sep 2016 02:25:35 GMT

Hi Lech,

Yes, NPrinting 17.x generates zip files that contain the HTML file. In my testing so far, this is a single HTML file that has all images etc. embedded

One workaround could be to use a tool like 7-zip. You can create a batch file and schedule it to periodically check for zipped files in your NPrinting destination folder and unzip them into a temporary holding folder from where the MOVE command can be used to move & rename the extracted HTML file to your final destination folder.

Let's say you want the html file to always have the name Result.html. Here is my sample batch file which is self explanatory:

@ECHO OFF

SET "srcdir=C:\Temp\FromDir" REM Source folder (NPrinting destination folder)

SET "tgtdir=C:\Temp\ToDir" REM Target folder (Final destination folder)

SET "tmpdir=C:\Temp\extracted-tmp" REM Temporary holding folder

REM empties the temporary holding folder

DEL /q "%tmpdir%\*"

REM although the temporary holding folder should have only one .zip file

REM I still use a loop as I don't know the name of the .zip file

REM You could remove the loop and hard code the name in place of "%%Z"

REM We will never know the name of the extracted HTML file hence the second

REM FOR loop

FOR %%Z IN ("%srcdir%\*.zip") DO (

"C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" e "%%Z" -o"%tmpdir%"

FOR %%I IN ("%tmpdir%\*") DO MOVE "%%I" "%tgtdir%\Result.html"

)

HTH - Daniel.

Re: NPrinting 17.1 - export HTML to destination (folder) issue

Lech_Miszkiewicz — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 23:38:58 GMT

Hi Daniel, Thank you for this workaround.

This can solve the problem, however it is not possible to create what i wanted to straight from NPrinting.

There is also another thing i noticed. In NPrinting Help:

Creating entity reports ‒ Qlik NPrinting

it says that Qlik Entity report can be created from QlikView & Qlik Sense documents. I wanted to check with you whether this is true as i was not able to create Entity report from Qlik Sense. I am using ver 17.1.2.0. When i try to create such a report qlik sense connection is not available.

could you please comment on that?

thanks

Lech

Re: NPrinting 17.1 - export HTML to destination (folder) issue

jan_lance — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 14:01:13 GMT

Hi Lech,

did you find any solution to this?

We are facing the same problem.

We are not able to choose a connection when we select QlikEntity.

Regards

Jan

Re: NPrinting 17.1 - export HTML to destination (folder) issue

Lech_Miszkiewicz — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 20:56:17 GMT

Hi Jan,

this is a bug in documentation - reported and getting fixed.

The entity report is not supported with Qlik Sense - that is official statement.

regards

Lech

Re: NPrinting 17.1 - export HTML to destination (folder) issue

Anonymous — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 05:58:44 GMT

Hi,

Is the situation the same in NP17.3.1.

Also is there a way to override the HTML files created in the folder.

Re: NPrinting 17.1 - export HTML to destination (folder) issue

Lech_Miszkiewicz — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 06:09:03 GMT

I am not sure - dropped subject as client was not willing to build bunch of workarounds (which is fully understandable).

I do not undersant your second question - html file are having each time new GUID id and are zipped in folder. You can overwrite zip folders.