topic Qlik SaaS - Publish and Replace does not include Alternate States in App Development

Qlik SaaS - Publish and Replace does not include Alternate States

stevejoyce — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 19:41:31 GMT

In Qlik SaaS, I noticed when doing a publish & replace (from personal/shared space to managed space) it does not publish new alternate states. Has anyone else been met with this limitation?

Re: SaaS - Publish and Replace - Alternate States

JanJorissen — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 09:57:23 GMT

Very interesting item you brought up.

Was this app published without data by default?
This isn't documented as a limitation, so it is potentially a defect if it is reproducible.

Re: SaaS - Publish and Replace - Alternate States

JanJorissen — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 08:41:14 GMT

@stevejoyce

When you did the publish/replace, did you check the "Include data" box at the bottom left of the Publish dialog screen?

Re: SaaS - Publish and Replace - Alternate States

stevejoyce — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 14:00:04 GMT

@JanJorissen I just checked and when "Including data" alternate state does publish. Could this be a feature request to publish even if Include data is not checked?

There are different scenarios on whether we want to include data when publishing. It most cases the managed space has desired data, shared/personal space may have development type data.

Re: SaaS - Publish and Replace - Alternate States

JanJorissen — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 14:06:24 GMT

@stevejoyce

At this stage, based on the findings, you can open a support case and we can raise a defect against it.

If it turns out to be intentional behavior, then yes, it would be a feature request

Re: SaaS - Publish and Replace - Alternate States

stevejoyce — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 14:08:50 GMT

Ok will do.

If anyone else hits this issue, I worked around this by using the qlik-cli to create the alternate state directly in the managed space, after publishing from shared space. Objects automatically restore back to the new alt state that they were set to in the shared space.

qlik context use $contextName

#create alternate state
$stateName = "<statename>"
$targetAppId = "<managed app id>"

qlik app state add $stateName --app=$targetAppId