topic Re: Multiple UDC for qliksense in Management & Governance

Multiple UDC for qliksense

uzername — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 01:28:18 GMT

Is it possible to have multiple UDC's for authenticating the users at the same time? For example a number of users retrieved from one AD connection and another group from a second AD or an excel sheet? Is there a document about how this works and how they syncd?

Thanks.

Re: Multiple UDC for qliksense

thomaslg_wq — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 10:04:32 GMT

Hi,

Yes it is possible : see below for qli help

https://help.qlik.com/en-US/sense/1.1/Subsystems/ManagementConsole/Content/QMC_Resources_UserDirectory_AddingNew.htm

Re: Multiple UDC for qliksense

vlad_komarov — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 17:12:02 GMT

Yes, it's possible to use multiple UDCs at the same time, but you will not be able to use Excel-based UDC for users' authentication...

You can assign licenses to users listed in your Excel file, but you must use AD for authentication...

Very serious QS limitation, if you ask me...

Re: Multiple UDC for qliksense

uzername — Tue, 13 Dec 2016 00:32:18 GMT

So even if user lists are created by any other means still only AD will authenticate them? Sounds pointless then.

Re: Multiple UDC for qliksense

vlad_komarov — Tue, 13 Dec 2016 01:01:12 GMT

Yes, but I really hope Qlik will resolve this "limitation" at some point. It worked in QV, and I do not see the reason why it should not be supported in QS...

Vlad

Re: Multiple UDC for qliksense

harvinderjohal — Fri, 31 Mar 2017 20:59:01 GMT

I think we're getting confused on creating user profiles and attributes and authentication. Qlik only performs the last mile of Authentication which is Authorization. That means some other mechanism (ie. custom code, some app you've built, etc..) needs to perform the Authentication for Qlik and pass over the user ticket to Sense notifying Sense that the user asking for resources has been Authenticated.

For non-production use cases only, perform a search for ACTM or for Access Control Test Module in Community. Here, you will come across an older document in which you can configure a custom UDC, use Node.JS app running in the background to simulate Authentication, and log in and out of Sense with the custom users you've created.