Not able to start a task via QRS. Error that we’re getting is: Cannot find a task with the following name

swarup_malli — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 19:48:54 GMT

We’re trying to use QRS to start a job. We’re authenticating using certificates which are assigned to a particular machine and user.

This is the config that we’re using:

var config = {
 authentication: 'certificates',
 host: '....',
 useSSL: true,
 cert: 'client.pem',
 key: 'client_key.pem',
 ca: 'root.pem',
 port: 4242,
 headerKey: 'X-Qlik-User',
 headerValue: 'UserDirectory=Internal;UserId=....'
 };

We tried doing POST requests to these end points:

/qrs/task/ <task id>/start

/qrs/task/start/synchronous/?name=…&xrfkey=ABCDEFG123456789

But the result is similar to this one.

"statusCode": 400,

"body": "Cannot find a task with the following name:SomeAPP_Dev",

"headers": {

"cache-control": "private, must-revalidate, max-age=0",

"transfer-encoding": "chunked",

"expires": "Tue, 12 Jul 2016 19:36:38 GMT",

"server": "Repository API REST Server/2.2.4.0 Microsoft-HTTPAPI/2.0",

"date": "Tue, 12 Jul 2016 19:36:37 GMT",

"connection": "close"

Re: Not able to start a task via QRS. Error that we’re getting is: Cannot find a task with the following name

jvi — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 20:52:11 GMT

Did you try with UserID=sa_repository

Re: Not able to start a task via QRS. Error that we’re getting is: Cannot find a task with the following name

swarup_malli — Wed, 13 Jul 2016 12:39:01 GMT

Thank you Jacob! its working

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Not able to start a task via QRS. Error that we’re getting is: Cannot find a task with the following name

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