topic Re: Nprinting latest version, update release frequency in 2021 in Qlik NPrinting

Nprinting latest version, update release frequency in 2021

john_oll — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 10:55:37 GMT

The latest release of NPrinting is 2021-May SR2.
I am wondering why there is no August release.
Was the release frequency changed? Did I miss an announcement?
Can find anything in release notes or via forum search or via google.

Re: Nprinting latest version, update release frequency in 2021

Lech_Miszkiewicz — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 11:33:03 GMT

Yes - Qlik has decided to do it hard way and in August did not do the NPrinting release at all. Instead it has released May 2021 SR2 week ago which now officialy supports Qlik Sense August 2021.

I guess there are no features to be added and there is not much traction in terms of NPrinting ideas on ideation page neither so it just looks like the next releases are just to support new releases of QlikView and Qlik Sense and therefore are not really feature releases - That is only my assumption and guess and is not a confirmed information.

Going back to release cadence - I know - that move to split Qlik Sense release cadence from NPrinting does not make sense at all and dont get me started or I will pour out all my frustrations here in this regard 🙂

Regarding communication on that subject we had some conversations on Tech preview channel here: https://community.qlik.com/t5/Technical-Preview/NPrinting-August-2021-TP-is-it-going-to-be-available/td-p/1825005

Re: Nprinting latest version, update release frequency in 2021

john_oll — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 13:54:32 GMT

Thanks!
So there was just silence ... 🤔
I am fine with only two or one NPrinting mayor releases a year.
But would be really nice to hear something official.
I guess absolutely everyone is busy working overtime on the MVP version of NPrinting for the Cloud. 😄

Re: Nprinting latest version, update release frequency in 2021

Lech_Miszkiewicz — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 21:55:57 GMT

you have to be careful with stating that you are happy with less releases of NPrinting. Keep in mind that if you have some new features in Qlik Sense Nov 2021 (coming out soon) you will not be able to use it until Qlik releases version of NPrinting which supports it.

From our/partners perspective that is often dealbreaker because clients dont look at NPrinting/Qlik Sense/QlikView etc as on all separate products. They just look at those and call it simply Qlik. so if you tell your client that he/she cannot upgrade because the other product (NPrinting) may stop working how do you think you will look like? 🙂

bottom line is: I am fine with no features beeing released as long as parallel version is always released with (at least) Qlik Sense so if client wants to upgrade there will be nothing stopping you from doing it.

cheers

Lech

Re: Nprinting latest version, update release frequency in 2021

john_oll — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 07:51:34 GMT

I completely agree.
NPrinting updates that support the current Sense release are the best option.

Re: Nprinting latest version, update release frequency in 2021

janyf — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 09:29:23 GMT

Hello

Is there some official communication from Qlik about SR2 release ? I cannot find any article about it ...

Re: Nprinting latest version, update release frequency in 2021

Lech_Miszkiewicz — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 11:02:26 GMT

NOt sure what kind of announcement you are after? If it is just about whats new you can just go to https://us-d.demo.qlik.com/download/ and download release notes or use this link:

https://da3hntz84uekx.cloudfront.net/NPrinting/21.14.5/211405/Qlik%20NPrinting%20May%202021%20SR2%20Release%20Notes.pdf

cheers

Lech

Re: Nprinting latest version, update release frequency in 2021

janyf — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 11:04:49 GMT

something like this

https://community.qlik.com/t5/Knowledge/NPrinting-May-2021-SR-1-is-now-available-for-download-from-the/ta-p/1821914

Re: Nprinting latest version, update release frequency in 2021

Lech_Miszkiewicz — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 11:40:53 GMT

Right, i have never searched for those kind of announcements as they were never regular in my opinion, so sorry bit i will not be able to tell you more. For me the download page and release notes was always most reliable place.
cheers

Re: Nprinting latest version, update release frequency in 2021

janyf — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 14:00:41 GMT

I agree but even release notes dont mention this patch (https://community.qlik.com/t5/Release-Notes/tkb-p/ReleaseNotes)

Re: Nprinting latest version, update release frequency in 2021

mgranillo — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 15:22:57 GMT

The silence from Qlik is frustrating. EOS marked for 5/2023. Will this be extended?

Re: Nprinting latest version, update release frequency in 2021

Lucas_Gatling — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 15:37:50 GMT

There hasn't been an official statement release to the public yet, however currently in lieu of major releases for the remainder of the year and foreseeable future Nprinting is currently only release new Service Releases. So do not expect to see another major release for the time being but Service Releases for May 2021 will continue to be released in the future for now.

Re: Nprinting latest version, update release frequency in 2021

Digvijay_Singh — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 15:49:38 GMT

I think with every new Sense release, Qlik must publish official statement that its compatible or not compatible with the latest Nprinting release (May 2021), AFAIK its not happening and created a lots of confusion around.

Re: Nprinting latest version, update release frequency in 2021

Lech_Miszkiewicz — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 20:23:24 GMT

I meant release notes from download page: https://us-d.demo.qlik.com/download/

Link you show release notes on community is not complete. I have flagged this to Qlik by opening support case and got below response:

"After checking with the concerned team, it's confirmed that the migrating release notes from the Download site to the Community site is still ongoing. That explained why the release notes list for NPrinting in the Community site is showing blank.

We apologies for all of the inconveniences and the content redirecting to the release notes section on the Community site will happen in the near future. Please use the download site for now."

I agree - lack of information in this regard and chaos caused by rushed move to migrate everything what Qlik has ever had to community made it much harder to follow and I agree checking Qlik download page every day for something new is also not practical.

Re: Nprinting latest version, update release frequency in 2021

Lech_Miszkiewicz — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 20:28:06 GMT

I agree with you @Digvijay_Singh but yeah - haha - this is wishful thinking 🙂

Check this out: I flagged this some time ago here: https://community.qlik.com/t5/Technical-Preview/No-TP-for-NPrinting-November-2021/m-p/1850921#M328 and got answer which was not really an answer to my question. I asked again and there was no answer to it until now.

Looks to me like Qlik is trying to dodge the bullet with this.

Re: Nprinting latest version, update release frequency in 2021

Digvijay_Singh — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 19:17:32 GMT

You are genius @Lech_Miszkiewicz, you found resolution so far I think all the excel designer template issues raised in the community, I wish if we could have something for the PowerPoint issue raised by me few weeks back.

Qlik support promised to take care of it in SR3 but not sure when that would be out, we have rolled back to old version but its a big headache for our IT team to first allow regular updates but later roll back office to old version.

https://community.qlik.com/t5/Qlik-NPrinting-Discussions/Nprinting-Designer-clicking-on-close-button-X-throwing-error-Ver/m-p/1831781#M33150