topic Re: Qlik Sense SaaS Task Chaining/Triggering Automation in Management & Governance

Qlik Sense SaaS Task Chaining/Triggering Automation

andyyan_explorer — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 01:28:33 GMT

Hi QS Gurus,

We just migrated our QS from Azure hosted to Qlik Cloud.

Realised that QMC is replaced by Administration console, in which I can manage the task schedules and other admin stuff.

However, there is a key feature in QMC missed in the admin console, which is task trigger in schedule. I checked the schedule reload for apps. Only time-wise schedules are available.

Then I got introduced with the task chaining via Qlik CLI scripting. Either win PowerShell or bash could do the job, which is not too bad.

HOWEVER, correct me if wrong, I reckon that you would need extra computing resource (on-prem server or cloud provider) to run the reload tasks, which might not be optimal.

Could anyone hint me if and when the task trigger scheduling would be possible in the out-of-box Qlik Sense SaaS?

Kind Regards,

Re: Qlik Sense SaaS Task Chaining/Triggering Automation

Leigh_Kennedy — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 05:35:23 GMT

It is certainly being looked at but I don't think it has been announced when this will be available.

Right now, there are ways you could do this using a serverless solution like AWS Lambda. @Daniel_Pilla has done this.

Regards.

Re: Qlik Sense SaaS Task Chaining/Triggering Automation

dabruehl — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 13:35:25 GMT

According @Thomas_Hopp this feature is on the roadmap. Have a look at following idea:
https://community.qlik.com/t5/Suggest-an-Idea/Task-chaining-in-Qlik-Sense-SaaS/idi-p/1722455

We have a QlikSense SaaS customer with the same requirement. We created with Apache Airflow a solution to reload QlikSense Apps in a DAG. The advantage of Apache Airflow ... you do not need to write any task handling code (failure, retries, sending a mail). We just used Python and the Qlik REST API
https://qlik.dev/apis/#rest

The solution is described in following blog post (German). Google Translate might help.
https://www.heyde.ch/insights/apache-airflow-qlik-sense-saas-ladeketten-on-premise-datenupload