topic Re: Qlik Sense SaaS Events API in Integration, Extension & APIs

Qlik Sense SaaS Events API

AG-gugelbisolutions — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 10:02:14 GMT

Hi there, I'm struggling to find any good documentation or examples of Events API (https://qlik.dev/apis#event).

Where can I start?

Re: Qlik Sense SaaS Events API

Levi_Turner — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 12:18:22 GMT

What are you trying to achieve? It is the endpoint which is exposed in the Console under Events:

Re: Qlik Sense SaaS Events API

AG-gugelbisolutions — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 13:29:58 GMT

Basically, I would like to trigger a nodeJS/enigma script when a specific app gets reloaded and I thought this API was suitable for this.

How do I use these events?

Re: Qlik Sense SaaS Events API

Levi_Turner — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 22:15:49 GMT

Gotcha. So I was confusing the events with audits (https://qlik.dev/apis/rest/audits). So events are what are emitted by webhooks (https://help.qlik.com/en-US/cloud-services/Subsystems/Hub/Content/Sense_Hub/Admin/mc-administer-webhook-create.htm)

So from a use perspective, you will want to have a server listening for the POSTs from the webhook and from there do your business logic.

Since you cannot currently filter by App IDs, I would imagine that the volume of POSTs will be a bit too much for your use case (e.g. listening to every app which has reloaded).

While it isn't event driven, a polling option* on items (https://qlik.dev/apis/rest/items) with a focus on the resourceAttributes > lastReloadTime attribute would probably be the lightest approach for quickly proving value.

* i.e. calling the GET on the item every minute / hour / etc

Re: Qlik Sense SaaS Events API

AG-gugelbisolutions — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 07:43:27 GMT

Thank you @Levi_Turner ! I'll give it a try tomorrow and let you know.

Re: Qlik Sense SaaS Events API

hakana — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 07:06:03 GMT

You actually can add a filter to the APP RELOADED WEBHOOK

But it's not exposed through the Management Console soo either use QAA (Qlik Application Automation) or the API (using qlik-cli)
https://qlik.dev/apis/rest/webhooks#%23%2Fentries%2Fwebhooks-post

Re: Qlik Sense SaaS Events API

AG-gugelbisolutions — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 07:23:00 GMT

Unfortunately, I realized I will not be able to try the solutions you suggested for a long time.

Priority has changed.

I will keep this post as unsolved until then.