topic Re: Error creating a folder into Qlik Cloud data files using Qlik-cli in Integration, Extension & APIs

Error creating a folder into Qlik Cloud data files using Qlik-cli

cristian_dalsanto — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 15:36:31 GMT

Hi all,

I'm trying to replicate a local structure (folder/subfolder/file) in the Data Files section of a space.

I'm using Qlik-cli version 2.27.0

Here’s a simplified version of my script:

LOCAL_ROOT_PATH="./roottest" SPACE_NAME="Developers - Demo & LAB" SPACE_ID=$(qlik space ls --name "$QLIK_SPACE_NAME" --json | jq -r '.[0].id') echo spaceID $SPACE_ID qlik context use horsadev.eu.qlikcloud.com CONN_ID=$(qlik data-file connection ls --spaceId $SPACE_ID | jq -r '.[0].id'); echo connID $CONN_ID folder_response=$(qlik data-file create \ --folder \ --name "cris_folder" \ --connectionId $CONN_ID) echo $folder_response

Unfortunately, it’s not working.

When I run the script, I get the following error:

cristiandalsanto@Cristians-MacBook-Air testandrea % ./script.sh spaceID 5ed10e05e66b1c00000b91e Context: mycontext connID c40dd41a-7ed8-455a-b52d-0000000 Error: 400 Bad Request { "errors": [ { "title": "Request to create/update a folder must not contain a Data body nor a tempContentFileId.", "code": "HTTP-400" } ] }

It seems the issue is related to the create method, but I can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong.

Any ideas or help would be much appreciated!

Cristian

Re: Error creating a folder into Qlik Cloud data files using Qlik-cli

jprdonnelly — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 16:01:53 GMT

@cristian_dalsanto - I managed to make it work like this:

qlik data-file create --folder --name "folder_1" --tempContentFileId "" --file "" --connectionId <connection_id>

Re: Error creating a folder into Qlik Cloud data files using Qlik-cli

Levi_Turner — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 13:28:43 GMT

@jprdonnelly for the pure task of creating the folder. If you want to just put a file in a folder (without an additional call to create the folder), you can do this (PowerShell syntax):

$space_name = "Sandbox - Folders"
$space_id = (qlik space ls --name $space_name | ConvertFrom-Json).id
$connection_id = (qlik data-file connection ls --spaceId $space_id | ConvertFrom-Json).id
# create a file in the root of the directory
qlik data-file create --name "csv.csv" --connectionId $connection_id --file C:\etc\data\CSV.csv
# create a file in a directory
qlik data-file create --name "some/folder/csv.csv" --connectionId $connection_id --file C:\etc\data\CSV.csv

Re: Error creating a folder into Qlik Cloud data files using Qlik-cli

cristian_dalsanto — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 14:53:31 GMT

yes @Levi_Turner, it works. I actually used this approach in my script to quickly provide a response to the customer. However, I'm looking for a solution that also allows me to create a structure including empty folders

Re: Error creating a folder into Qlik Cloud data files using Qlik-cli

cristian_dalsanto — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 14:57:25 GMT

Thanks @jprdonnelly , it works perfectly. I hadn’t realized that I needed to explicitly pass an empty tempContentFileIdparameter — I assumed its default value was ""