topic Re: NPrinting User Import/Delete in Qlik NPrinting

NPrinting User Import/Delete

parevrac — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 15:52:44 GMT

I have set up a user import task which imports a variable list of users depending on criteria set within the source Qlik document. I was expecting that this would delete all users that no longer meet the criteria - why does it not do this?

The criteria select any of up to 10,000 employees who have training activities that are due within the next 3 months and NPrinting is set up to deliver an individual email to each of these employees including a listing of these training activities. In the latest monthly email distribution several people received emails who had no training activities due. I thought that the user import task would have deleted these users but it hadn't - how do i make it delete those users that have no training due?

Re: NPrinting User Import/Delete

Lucas_Gatling — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 16:27:13 GMT

Do you have any the highlighted boxes checked in your LDAP import?

Re: NPrinting User Import/Delete

parevrac — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 18:57:16 GMT

Lucas, Yes i have all these boxes checked

Re: NPrinting User Import/Delete

Lech_Miszkiewicz — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 22:14:44 GMT

I believe this process will not delete users which were not created by import task, is that the behaviour you are experiencing?

Re: NPrinting User Import/Delete

parevrac — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 08:52:23 GMT

Thanks Lech,

Users can only be created by the import task as i want this to be as automatic as possible. The user import runs weekly and the users that were not deleted appear to have been created in previous weeks to the email report run so they must have met the criteria for being included in the distribution in previous weeks

Re: NPrinting User Import/Delete

Ruggero_Piccoli — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 14:00:22 GMT

Hi,

I confirm that an import task can delete only users previously created by the same import task. You can delete the others manually, via APIs https://help.qlik.com/en-US/nprinting/May2021/APIs/NP+API/index.html?page=63 or by using the same import task that created them. If you deleted the import task that created the users you can only use one of the first two suggested methods.

Best Regards,

Ruggero

Re: NPrinting User Import/Delete

parevrac — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 16:29:54 GMT

Thanks Ruggero

How do i access and use NPrinting API - is it a separate application?

Regards

Paul

Re: NPrinting User Import/Delete

Lech_Miszkiewicz — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 22:05:31 GMT

Hi @parevrac ,

Ruggero has provided you a link to available api and documentation. You need to write custom script/code to use it in a software of your choice. you can create your own webapp or maybe use custom Qlik Sense script and utilize Rest connector to run it. There is a walkthrough of everything you need to do it in my blog post (just make sure you read carefully all links and configuration steps as there is lots of it)

Links:

intro:https://community.qlik.com/t5/Qlik-NPrinting-Discussions/How-to-use-Qlik-NPrinting-APIs-inside-a-Qlik-Sense-load-script/td-p/54441

pdf:https://community.qlik.com/t5/Qlik-NPrinting-Discussions/How-to-use-Qlik-NPrinting-APIs-inside-a-Qlik-Sense-load-script/td-p/54441?attachment-id=71519

my blog post: https://nprintingadventures.com/2019/04/08/nprinting-api-qlik-rest-subroutines

cheers

Re: NPrinting User Import/Delete

parevrac — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 12:15:21 GMT

Thanks for this - looks like i need ti try and get REST connector as it is not included in our QlikView 12 installation

Re: NPrinting User Import/Delete

Frank_S — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 19:55:54 GMT

@parevec
When you have a moment, please mark responses as Accepted Solution - if any - which helped you to come to your conclusion and next steps.

Kind regards...