topic Re: Exporting app with data using OAuth in Qlik-CLI in Integration, Extension & APIs

Exporting app with data using OAuth in Qlik-CLI

DanielCordon — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 20:32:11 GMT

Hi everyone!

I'm creating a script for export, import and publishing apps betweens tenants in Qlik Cloud using Qlik-CLI. As the first step I create a context using following line:

qlik context create test --server https://<TENANT NAME>.us.qlikcloud.com/ --api-key <API KEY>

After that I log into that context with qlik context use test . After that I use following line for export app from a shared space from test tenant

qlik app export <AppId> > <Pathfile>/AppName.qvf

It does export app with data

Furthermore we should use OAuth client for multitenant managing. So we create context using --oauth-client-id and --oauth-client-secret flags for creating context.

However, using the last context with this authentication it's exporting app with No Data.

What could be the issue?

Note: I followed this tutorial for creating OAuth client credentials
https://qlik.dev/manage/platform-operations/authenticate-platform-ops/#how-to-create-a-region-level-oauth-client

Thanks in advance.

Re: Exporting app with data using OAuth in Qlik-CLI

Frank_S — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 21:40:22 GMT

Hello @DanielCordon

I tested with a context which uses an API key only.

I was not able to reproduce the issue. You can actually see the difference when exporting with and without the --NoData flag.

Try this below to see if the output size changes for you with and without the --NoData flag.

NoData flag: App size is 768KB

No data is seen when opening the app.

Without NoData flag: App size is 960kb

Data is seen when opening the app.

If you are consistently reproducing the issue with your specific context configuration however, please do start a support case.

Kind regards....

Re: Exporting app with data using OAuth in Qlik-CLI

DanielCordon — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 22:15:39 GMT

Hi @Frank_S

I tested that already. Red box is with personal APIKEY and blue one is for OAuth client information

Re: Exporting app with data using OAuth in Qlik-CLI

DanielCordon — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 17:26:11 GMT

For solving this, I modified the line to set export function with API KEY value, and export with OAuth user credentials.

Best regards!

Re: Exporting app with data using OAuth in Qlik-CLI

PythonMCSJ — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 12:34:36 GMT

Hi DanielCordon,

Your OAuth Client user is lacking the correct roles/permissions in the space of the app, which you are trying to export with data.

When you create a OAuth Client, a corresponding Qlik service user (representing the OAuth client) is created in the Qlik Cloud tenant (IDP: qlikbot), with a name matching the client.

Despite having set different scopes on the OAuth Client, the normal permission based limitations are still applied to the OAuth user - where the default assumption may be that the service user "can do everything" in the tenant. So space permissions still need to be applied, to ensure that the retrieved token of the OAuth Client match what is expected permission wise.

Hope this makes sense.

Kind regards,

PythonMCSJ