topic Re: Execute a Job with On Demand Button - NPrinting in Qlik NPrinting

Execute a Job with On Demand Button - NPrinting

slondono — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 19:50:47 GMT

Hi guys

I want to know if i could execute a job with a on-demand button. Right now i can execute Tasks but i need to excute a group of tasks with a single button. Im using the NPrinting On demand extension

Hope you can help

Re: Execute a Job with On Demand Button - NPrinting

Stephen_Jasionowski — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 20:31:21 GMT

Sebastian - the on-demand objects can only reference a single report or task ID. If you want to run the contents of an entire job, you will need to create a button for each task that is part of the job.

Re: Execute a Job with On Demand Button - NPrinting

Daniel_Jenkins — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 22:20:51 GMT

Hi Sebastian,

To add to what Stephen said, you can also create a list of reports in your QlikView document and run the selected one using expressions in the extension object properties - this way you need only one button. Same goes for Tasks. Here is the tutorial: How to Make Reports Selectable with NPrinting On-Demand

HTH - Daniel.

Re: Execute a Job with On Demand Button - NPrinting

Anonymous — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 11:24:29 GMT

Excellent Daniel. I have a need for this exact process right now. Creative thinking is one of the benefits of investing time on this forum.

Re: Execute a Job with On Demand Button - NPrinting

Anonymous — Tue, 02 Aug 2016 19:13:31 GMT

Did this get resolved in version 17?

While Daniel's solution reduces real estate used on the QV app screen, it still required a multiple step process rather than the automated one that Sebastian was seeking. Running a job on demand, would be the optimal solution.

Hope you are well my fiend.

Mike Cz

Re: Execute a Job with On Demand Button - NPrinting

Stephen_Jasionowski — Tue, 02 Aug 2016 22:03:12 GMT

Mike -

When the On-Demand feature is released as part of 17.2, the report generation object will be native to QlikView and no longer an extension. Inside the object the user can select any reports that they want to run.

This won't resolve the initial question about running a job, but you'll be able to easily run multiple reports from inside of a single QlikView object.