topic Re: NPrinting and OneDrive in Qlik NPrinting

NPrinting and OneDrive

Thu, 07 Apr 2016 14:14:33 GMT

I see their is documentation on how to send an output to a GoogleDrive. I am wondering is there a way to send a report from NPrinting to OneDrive. If there is can someone share a link with me.

Thanks,

David

Re: NPrinting and OneDrive

Anonymous — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 21:20:11 GMT

David - one generic approach with all of the cloud based storage options is to write NPrinting output files locally to the appropriate 'synced' folder and simply let the desktop cloud app or native capabilities of the cloud sync keep the content replicated between the local NPrinting Server and the Cloud site. There are valid reasons to keep a copy of the report both on-prem and in the cloud. It's a simple approach that leverages the vendors own technology. To let NPrinting drop a file to a local folder is no different than a user dragging the file in.

For One Drive their documentation says:

To upload files to OneDrive automatically, just copy or move the files to your OneDrive folder using File Explorer, or save them in your OneDrive folder from a program. Files you upload this way can be up to 10 GB in size. If you installed the OneDrive app on other computers, the files will automatically be added to the OneDrive folders on them, too.

Re: NPrinting and OneDrive

Thu, 07 Apr 2016 21:40:31 GMT

‌Thanks Kyle. I had a feeling that was the case after I enter the question.

Re: NPrinting and OneDrive

derekjones — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 12:51:43 GMT

Hi Krt

I am trying to use this exact method you suggested, however my issue is that the folder path is related to the user who is logged in e.g. C:\Users\\

The problem with this is i use a particular user for testing e.g. NPRINT_TEST and another user for the actual live environment NPRINT_PRD. If I hardcode the path to save the report in Nprinting nsq then I have to remember to change it every time I want to TEST or promote to Production.

Do you know of a way around this?

My thanks in advance for any suggestions

Derek

Re: NPrinting and OneDrive

Ruggero_Piccoli — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 13:31:17 GMT

Hi,

You mentioned an .nsq so I suppose you are working with QlikView NPrinting 16. In this case QlikView NPrinting 16 supports environment variable. So you could use variables in the paths and simply change a variable when moving the project to the production environment.

Refer to https://community.qlik.com/t5/Qlik-NPrinting-Documents/How-to-Use-Environment-Variables/ta-p/1489864.

Best Regards,

Ruggero

Re: NPrinting and OneDrive

derekjones — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 12:58:24 GMT

Thanks Ruggero

That will reduce maintenance to only a single manual update, but ideally I was looking for a way that the variable could be derived depending on which environment it's in e.g. pickup from a text file on the environment declaring the variable value. I cannot seem to do this last step, no logic can be applied to the environmental variables it appears.

Anyway, it reduces the workload anyway to a single maintenance which helps massively

Thanks

Derek

Re: NPrinting and OneDrive

derekjones — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 14:14:06 GMT

So for anyone interested in a full resolution to this issue, there is actually a much simpler solution. What I was not aware of is that this One Drive folder on the local machine is simply just another standard folder with security permissions, so if you simply give read/write permissions to Test User of the Production User's folder then it does not matter if while running as test user you save to production user's folder, it allows that.

So, to be clear, no variables required for this in the end, just setup folder permissions.

Re: NPrinting and OneDrive

anindya_manna — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 11:33:49 GMT

Is it possible to place Nprinting output to one drive??

If not then is it possible to place Nprinting output from a server to one drive?

Re: NPrinting and OneDrive

derekjones — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 11:46:48 GMT

Yes, resolution is in the above discussion, you sync a local folder on server with one drive and then save to that folder

Re: NPrinting and OneDrive

anindya_manna — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 11:51:29 GMT

Sorry actually i did not understand.

I can sync up from local drive.But how to do for a folder from different server to my one drive?

Re: NPrinting and OneDrive

derekjones — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 12:02:15 GMT

Share your folder with the user who you login as on the server, when shared, you then need to go to sharepoint and sync that folder on the qlikview server. Instructions here

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/sync-sharepoint-files-with-the-onedrive-for-business-sync-client-groove-exe-59b1de2b-519e-4d3a-8f45-51647cf291cd

Re: NPrinting and OneDrive

Frank_S — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 15:06:10 GMT

Hi @anindya_manna

@derekjones response is correct and is not something that can be configured in NPrinting directly.

But you can use your one drive sync folder on your NP server as a folder destination and allow one drive to sync normally.

See folder destination for selecting and determining which NPrinting destination folder that you want to add to your one drive sync process. https://help.qlik.com/en-US/nprinting/June2019/Content/NPrinting/AdministeringQVNprinting/Folder-destination.htm
See this Microsoft one drive video how to set that up. https://support.office.com/en-us/article/sync-files-with-the-onedrive-sync-client-in-windows-615391c4-2bd3-4aae-a42a-858262e42a49