topic Re: Which apps are using which extensions? in Integration, Extension & APIs

Which apps are using which extensions?

Mon, 20 Mar 2017 21:56:43 GMT

On Qlik Sense Server, is there any way to see which apps are using which extensions? The reason is if an extension needs to be updated or deleted, I need a list of all apps that are using that extension so i can check that they aren't broken afterwards.

I tried digging around in the Qlik Postgres db, but couldn't find any connection there between Apps & Extensions.

Re: Which apps are using which extensions?

Aiham_Azmeh — Tue, 21 Mar 2017 06:53:01 GMT

Hi bchastain‌,

Unfortunately, at this moment, the only way to find which apps are using which extension, is through scanning the app for object ids => get each object's properties => check if extension exists in QRS etc...

But there is an extension created by swr for that: GitHub - stefanwalther/sense-extension-governance: Analyze usage of Qlik Sense visualization extensions across your enti…

I hope this helps

Re: Which apps are using which extensions?

Tue, 21 Mar 2017 15:01:03 GMT

Oh thank you - that extension looks perfect

Re: Which apps are using which extensions?

Wed, 22 Mar 2017 21:16:09 GMT

OK, well after digging further, I don't think this extension will work for us. It requires that all apps are closed in order to run, and that would be very difficult to accomplish in a large organization with many thousands of apps.

Do you know of any way of doing this without having all apps closed?

Re: Which apps are using which extensions?

AlipNath — Thu, 17 May 2018 19:32:11 GMT

Hello Bryan - Any luck with this requirement? The extension above throws error while Importing into Enterprise June 2017 version.

Re: Which apps are using which extensions?

bchastai — Wed, 23 May 2018 17:31:20 GMT

Nope, I'm still looking for a solution for this!

Re: Which apps are using which extensions?

Anonymous — Sun, 02 Sep 2018 08:33:25 GMT

Hi Brian

checking if you found any solution ?

Anybody created a solution ?

Thanks

Eric

Re: Which apps are using which extensions?

chirpa1wa — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 01:59:25 GMT

Bump.

Got the same issue in my work place.

We are upgrading Qlik Sense and need to know what extensions are being used by which apps.

I cannot get the above extension to work on Qlik Sense Desktop Feb 2018 Patch 1. It reports an error that the Connection is lost.

It would be great to have a "nice" solution so anyone's input would be appreciated.

Re: Which apps are using which extensions?

Kirankk — Tue, 29 Jan 2019 09:47:36 GMT

Getting error while importing this extension

Re: Which apps are using which extensions?

oknotsen — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 08:49:21 GMT

Did you or anyone else find a solution to this problem yet?

Re: Which apps are using which extensions?

simonaubert — Fri, 19 Apr 2019 14:20:06 GMT

Stupid question, but can ask Stefan to continue the scan instead of throwing an error?

Re: Which apps are using which extensions?

alec1982 — Tue, 09 Jul 2019 20:54:56 GMT

anyone found a solution?

Re: Which apps are using which extensions?

simonaubert — Tue, 09 Jul 2019 21:03:26 GMT

Still not but there is this idea you can vote for :

https://community.qlik.com/t5/Qlik-Sense-Enterprise-Ideas/extension-usage-dashboard-api-etc/idi-p/1571452

Re: Which apps are using which extensions?

rzenere_avvale — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 11:34:56 GMT

I haven't done it in a while, but with QS' older versions I used to export all metadata with QMCU (you can find them here: https://github.com/eapowertools/QlikSenseQMCUtility).
From one of the exported files (visualisations.csv if I'm not wrong) you can see the associated ID and if the object is an extension or not.
Hope this helps,
Riccardo

Re: Which apps are using which extensions?

PlatformManager-JvV — Thu, 11 Jul 2019 09:26:56 GMT

Hi All,

If you would like to know what apps are using what extension you can use our solution!

One of our features is that you can see what extension is used by what apps.

We also solve problems like:

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I hope this helps. Best regards Jorik van Voorthuizen.

Re: Which apps are using which extensions?

prajwol306 — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 15:34:24 GMT

I was able to get around this by using one of the Qlik Sense API wrapper in Node Js (GIT Hub Link: https://github.com/qmoni/qliksense-api) . I initially used the API to connect to the engine , then got the list of Documents , looped over each document and extracted the object type .

Following is the snippet in the API documentation that will give you information of the content in the sense document . The response is in the form of a Json object . The qType attribute in the returned Json object is the name of the Object that the document is using .

let appId = '9586b50f-4df2-400e-8b4a-69874a7dcc3e'
let method = 'GetAllInfos'
let params = []
qlik.openDoc(appId, method, params).then((res)=>{
  console.log(res)
})

I then stored this into an array and converted the array to a CSV file to analyze in Qlik sense .

The API documentation is pretty handy and straight forward .

Re: Which apps are using which extensions?

ErikWetterberg — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 15:49:53 GMT

You should probably verify that the qType really works, might be wrong in some cases (converted charts??). The visualization property is what's actually used, I think.

Re: Which apps are using which extensions?

prajwol306 — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 19:09:43 GMT

In my case , I verified creating a new APP and adding bunch of different objects . I found all the objects under qtype in my case .

Do you have any specific examples where you had issue?? Just wanted to know .

Re: Which apps are using which extensions?

ErikWetterberg — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 20:45:53 GMT

Yes, the problem used to be converted objects. Try converting one of your charts to another chart type. Does the qType change?