topic Re: Open a sheet of an App using API in Integration, Extension & APIs

Open a sheet of an App using API

Anonymous — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 13:27:52 GMT

Is there any way to open a sheet of an App using App or Engine API. I have the Id of the sheet to be opened.

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Re: Open a sheet of an App using API

Anonymous — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 13:41:41 GMT

If open the app as per normal with a web browser, navigate to the sheet in question and save the url as a shortcut then opening the shortcut will take you straight to the sheet.

Re: Open a sheet of an App using API

Anonymous — Tue, 03 Apr 2018 04:01:30 GMT

Hi Bill,

Actually, I had created a mashup that updates Measures/Dimensions of visualization objects in an App using Engine API. But I found that whenever the changes are made, these changes are not reflected in the mashup unless I manually open the sheet containing those visualization objects that were updated.

I have also found a blog that refers to the same issue: Introduction to Generic Object

I am facing the problem so wanting to know if it is possible to open a sheet using App or Engine API.

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Re: Open a sheet of an App using API

m_s — Tue, 03 Apr 2018 08:10:05 GMT

If you haven't tried it yet, maybe "reloading" the mashup visualizations by destroying them using the "destroySessionObject" method and then calling .getObject again could work?

Mathias

Re: Open a sheet of an App using API

Anonymous — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 06:36:51 GMT

Hi Mathias,

Thanks for your reply.

I have figured out the issue. Since I am using getList( ) method of App API, it is necessary to call the close( ) method on the model which I didn't do and so my changes are not persisted to Qlik Sense.

Here is how I am using the close() method:

app.getList('DimensionList').then(function(result) {

// TODO

result.close();

})

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