topic Re: How to change App / AppObject owner using the API? in Integration, Extension & APIs

How to change App / AppObject owner using the API?

Tue, 13 Sep 2016 14:01:20 GMT

I'm using the REST API to duplicate an app with user internal\sa_repository. This means the duplicated app and its objects are owned by internal\sa_repository. Is it possible to change the ownerId on the app and its objects?

What I've tried...

I've performed the change of owner in QMC while having Fiddler running in the background. It appears to me that the endpoint is as follows:

https://[servername]/qrs/Selection/16c01704-74bd-4e1f-84e8-768ae8b150aa/App/Object/synthetic?xrfkey=eyrHB7kx06FPp2TI

The request type is PUT and the body contains an array of properties. I've noticed that the property named 'owner' has these values:

{

"name": "owner",

"value": "b6145ba2-66b5-4b71-a062-45d6d8b49469",

"valueIsDifferent": false,

"valueIsModified": true

... which leads me to believe that 'valueIsModified' is the input argument to the engine on what to change.

So I constructed a request body that is much smaller than the one that QMC generates:

URI: https://[servername]:4242/qrs/Selection/5d79c08e-6726-4e23-bc9f-c1f58b828092/App/Object/synthetic?Xrfkey=aasdfasdfa33

Body:

{

"properties": [{

"name": "owner",

"value": "b6145ba2-66b5-4b71-a062-45d6d8b49469",

"valueIsDifferent": false,

"valueIsModified": true

}],

"type": "App.Object"

}

Unfortunately, I get the error message back:

[{

"schemaPath": "Selection",

"errorText": "Cannot find the item for the \"Get\" operation."

}]

I am sure that the appObject in the URI exists cause I see it in /qmc/appobjects.

What am I missing?

Re: How to change App / AppObject owner using the API?

s29124141 — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 16:06:30 GMT

First create a selection object with POST body with objectId as app Id

{"items":[{"type":"App","objectID":"c0d3bc5b-6ea2-42ea-8ecb-3bc90077bb34"}]}

Then call synthetic endpoint. It should be PUT not GET. Remember to add LatestModifiedDate

URI: https://[servername]:4242/qrs/Selection/5d79c08e-6726-4e23-bc9f-c1f58b828092/App/synthetic?Xrfkey=aasdfasdfa33

Body:

{

"properties": [{

"name": "owner",

"value": "b6145ba2-66b5-4b71-a062-45d6d8b49469",

"valueIsModified": true

}],

"type": "App",

"LatestModifiedDate": CurrentTime

}

Re: How to change App / AppObject owner using the API?

Mon, 12 Dec 2016 15:27:31 GMT

Hi praveena.

I should have marked the thread as closed a long time ago but this is essentially what I did in the end, thanks for your help though.

As for the URI I used qrs/Selection/{0}/App/Object/synthetic where {0} is the appId.

Also, for the value CurrentTime I had to format the resulting time as such:

DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss.fffZ").

I'll mark your answer as the correct one.

Re: How to change App / AppObject owner using the API?

Wed, 22 Mar 2017 10:09:44 GMT

Being new to the QRS API I'm interested to know if this is a two step procedure if doing this using Postman.

Please can you explain a little more about the first step "First create a selection object" ?

Thanks

Re: How to change App / AppObject owner using the API?

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Sep 2018 11:47:28 GMT

Hi Jack

We are also struggling to change the owner of an app through the QRS API for Qlik Sense.

From what I can gather online I need to use the URL qrs/Selection/{0}/App/synthetic where {0} is the app ID and send a PUT request.

You pass through a JSON object with the body:

{\"properties\": [{\"name\": \"owner\",\"value\": \"" + id + "\",\"valueIsModified\": true, \"valueIsdifferent\": true}],\"type\": \"App\",\"LatestModifiedDate\": \"" + DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss.fffZ") + "\"}

Where id is the id of the user you want the new owner to be.

I get a response saying this path is not valid, indicating possibly the URL is not valid.

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