topic Re: SetAppProperties and full dynamic properties in Integration, Extension & APIs

SetAppProperties and full dynamic properties

agottwald — Wed, 27 May 2015 13:04:33 GMT

Hello,

according to the Engine-Api documentation full dynamic properties are supported for apps. This works well in Qlik Sense Desktop but not for the server.

{
  "handle": 1,
  "method": "SetAppProperties",
  "params": {
    "qProp": {
      "qTitle": "",
      "qLastReloadTime": "",
      "description" : "xxx",
      "grpTest" : "615"
    }
  }
}

The request is supposed to set the description and the grpTest property of the app. In Qlik Sense Desktop the values areS written as expected. Even JSON objects and lists can be save to arbitrary property names.

Using Qlik Sense Server the request is succesful but only description is updated. grpTest is not created at all. Updating the app using the repository services, selections and synthetics does not work either.

Is there a different way to create properties with arbitrary names for an app on the server?

Re: SetAppProperties and full dynamic properties

Øystein_Kolsrud — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 10:41:01 GMT

Unfortunately, arbitrary dynamic properties are not supported for apps in server. The only dynamic properties you can use on server are "description" and "dynamicColor". No other dynamic properties will be persisted.

Our documentation does not seem to reflect this though, and we will make sure to update it accordingly.

Thanks for pointing this out to us!

Re: SetAppProperties and full dynamic properties

Alexander_Thor — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 12:54:20 GMT

It's a shame would have been nice seeing that added in the future.

We also had the need to save some arbitrary meta-data against our app, as a workaround we persisted a transient object instead. Downside is that you need a open app handle to access it, would have been nice to be able to get at it from the global scope.

Re: SetAppProperties and full dynamic properties

Øystein_Kolsrud — Wed, 03 Jun 2015 11:51:24 GMT

Correction: The are more dynamic properties available than the two I listed. The dynamic properties that are persisted are the ones used by the QRS which includes "description", "dynamicColor", "title" and a few others. But properties that the QRS does not care about are unfortunately discarded.

Re: SetAppProperties and full dynamic properties

konrad_mattheis — Wed, 03 Jun 2015 15:25:35 GMT

Hi,

I also really would like if this feature is like the documentation. So please don't correct the documentation, please correct the software.

The Qlik Sense Desktop can handle it already right, so please do this also for the server version.

bye

Konrad

Re: SetAppProperties and full dynamic properties

Øystein_Kolsrud — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 07:14:51 GMT

Short follow up on this thread: We have a feature request filed for the topic discussed above, and I will let you know when there is any progress in this area.

Re: SetAppProperties and full dynamic properties

Øystein_Kolsrud — Thu, 14 Apr 2016 08:13:38 GMT

The list of which properties are persisted can be found at this location:

http://help.qlik.com/en-US/sense-developer/2.2/Subsystems/EngineAPI/Content/Structs/NxAppProperties.htm