topic how to app.save() in published qvf in App Development

how to app.save() in published qvf

Mon, 30 Nov 2015 14:41:17 GMT

Hi all,

i have a mashup that need to set a variable in a published qvf.

so i set the string content of the variable and then i save the app, but the engine throws me an error saying that it is Forbidden.

the mashup is opened by the owner of the qvf.

what i'm getting wrong ? it is possible to save published app ?

Thanks, Loris

Re: how to app.save() in published qvf

tseebach — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 11:39:59 GMT

If a user changes a variable then its new content is stored as part of the users setting in that app. Which means that the variable your changing is not globally changed. That how QlikView used to work. Variables in Sense are not editable when published.

I would guess that in a later release, the ability to change variable for end users will appear. But right now published apps don't have access to variables, in the same way as "my work" apps have.

It also sounds right to me that you cannot change or save an app that is published. The save method implies that a change in layout or datamodel has occured. These changes cannot be done for published apps, only "my work".

What you could do is, duplicate the app, make the change, and published it again. This offcourse requires the user to have permissions to do this.

Otherwise, you could set the variable in the script, based on a external file, which you can update from the mashup and then reload it.

I hope this helps.

Re: how to app.save() in published qvf

Fri, 15 Jan 2016 11:03:11 GMT

Hi Torben

Thank you for your answer.

it can be a way to go!

Loris

Re: how to app.save() in published qvf

Alexander_Thor — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 13:39:11 GMT

The default security rules will prevent you from saving a published app. However you can change those rules but it's at your own risk since if two people save the app at the same time we have no way of determining when changes override each other. For example, user A is working on a chart. User B then calls app.save(), user A looses his chart.

Re: how to app.save() in published qvf

Fri, 15 Jan 2016 14:41:00 GMT

Thanks Alexander,

modify the rule is a bit risky as you stated...

so what i want to do is to copy, save and replace the app.

in this way i can save the new content of the variable and preserve the personal copies of app objs.

isn't it?