topic Re: Add task name and execution time to destination folder in Qlik NPrinting

Add task name and execution time to destination folder

mickaelsparkers — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 08:16:13 GMT

Hello community,

Is there a way to automatically split our destination folder on nPrinting by task name (or even task id) and timestamp?

Something like destination folder: C:\Distribution\%%task_name%%\%%timestamp%% where %%task_name%% will be the name of the task launched on nPrinting and %%timestamp%% the execution time of it.

We have a lot of reports/tasks we would like to store in different folders without hardcoding a folder for each tasks.

Thank you for your answer.

Re: Add task name and execution time to destination folder

Lech_Miszkiewicz — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 23:41:27 GMT

Hi.
short answer is no-there is no out of the box property telling you which task you are running.

Workaround:

Use Qlik variable: you could create in all your qlik sense app variable which could be set as a filter for each task (then you have 1 destination) and rest is managed via that variable-i don't see it much different to hardcoding destinations but that is the only similar way to achieve what you want.

Re: Add task name and execution time to destination folder

Lech_Miszkiewicz — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 23:44:39 GMT

To add to this: in my projects most of the time i use API and my above answer combined with API use could give you automatic way of defining destinations: https://nprintingadventures.com/2019/04/08/nprinting-api-qlik-rest-subroutines/

Re: Add task name and execution time to destination folder

mickaelsparkers — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 06:01:02 GMT

Thank you for your answer, I will study this.