topic Re: How to change Nprinting connection dynamically in App Development

How to change Nprinting connection dynamically

mcasciaro — Wed, 31 Jul 2019 16:11:31 GMT

Hi everyone,

we have a dashboard that uses Nprinting and on-demand reporting to allow users to export entire dashboard in excel. In test environment in the field Server Connection (section "Nprinting connection" of dashboard bundle on-demand reporting) we use nprinting server of test environment.

Now, when we deploy the app in production environment we need to manually change the server connection field in order to point to nprinting server of production. Is there a way to dynamically change the nprinting connection depending on the target environment (test or production) avoiding to manually change connection settings for every deploy?

Thanks in advance!

Re: How to change Nprinting connection dynamically

mahaveerbiraj — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 12:09:37 GMT

Hi ,

Do you have same Nprinting server for Test and prod server ?

Re: How to change Nprinting connection dynamically

mahaveerbiraj — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 07:26:04 GMT

Do you have same Nprinting server for both test and prod qliksense.

Re: How to change Nprinting connection dynamically

mcasciaro — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 07:31:35 GMT

Hi,

no..I have two different Nprinting server for test and prod.

Re: How to change Nprinting connection dynamically

mahaveerbiraj — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 07:39:24 GMT

hello,

initially you need to create connection in prod, after that no need to change manually, After modification in test, copy app from test to prod and just replace with old existing app in QMC , Thats it

Re: How to change Nprinting connection dynamically

KennyJ97 — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 07:41:33 GMT

You can redirect Google.com to YouTube.com by editing the host file on Windows machines. I'm curious if redirecting the IP from the test server to the production server would achieve the same result. Be careful that you don't affect anything else, it's easily reversible.

https://support.rackspace.com/how-to/modify-your-hosts-file/

Re: How to change Nprinting connection dynamically

mcasciaro — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 07:47:56 GMT

Hi KennyJ97,

I've already tried to modify host file using an alias (e.g. nprinting_server). But, when I use the alias in Nprinting connection settings, qlik sense don't give me the opportunity to choose Nprinting app and template under "Report Configuration" settings. In this way when I publish the app in production environment the export button doesn't work.

Marco

Re: How to change Nprinting connection dynamically

mcasciaro — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 07:52:10 GMT

Thansk Maha,

I try and let you know.

Marco