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How to send a chart image to Slack, Microsoft Teams or email using Qlik Automate

AfeefaTk — Fri, 23 May 2025 13:11:52 GMT

With the new inclusion of the Get Chart Image block in the Qlik Reporting connector in Qlik Automate, you now have more options to notify a group of users with more in-depth data and charts using Slack, Microsoft Teams, and email.

This article will guide you in sending your first chart image to Slack with Qlik Automate.

It explains a basic example of a template configured in Qlik Automate for this scenario.

You can make use of the template which is available in the template picker. You can find it by navigating to Add new -> New automation -> Search templates and searching for 'Send a Chart Image to Slack' or 'Embed a chart image in an email' in the search bar, and clicking the Use template option.

For guidance on sending charts via Microsoft Teams and mail, go to the "Next Steps" section at the end of this article.

You can download examples of the automations from this article: Send-chart-image-to-slack.json, Send-chart-image-to-outlook.json, Send-chart-image-to-mail.json, Send-chart-image-to-microsoft-teams.json

Full Automation

Configure the Automation

Open the automation editor and search for the Qlik Cloud Services connector on the left-hand menu.
Drag the blocks “Select Field Value” and “Create Bookmark” to the canvas and fill in the required inputs. You can add multiple Select Field Value blocks to apply selections to various fields. The Create Bookmark block is then used to create a temporary bookmark that can pass the selections to the Get Chart Image block.

Warning: Whenever the “Get Chart Image” block is to be used, we advise you to only use it with temporary bookmarks or pre-existing persistent bookmarks.

Search for the Qlik Reporting connector on the left-side menu, then drag the "Get Chart Image" block to the editor and attach it below the previous block.

Choose the same app you chose when creating the temporary bookmark and use the ID value received from the “Create Bookmark” block.

The height and width inputs are not required and default to 1000 if the fields are empty.

Manually insert the Object ID input; it can not yet be retrieved through an API call.

To find the chart ID from the app, open the app, then click Edit Sheet, right-click the chart, and open the Share/Embed menu from the menu dropdown that appears. You will see the object ID of the chart under the chart preview section as shown below:
Add the 'Condition' block to check whether the "Get Chart Image" block has returned a successful response.
1. If the condition block outcome evaluates to true:
  - Add the "Update Run Title" block to specify that the "Get Chart Image" block failed due to an error.
  - Add an "Error" block to throw an error message from the "Get Chart Image" block and set the current automation run to be in a failed state.
2. If the condition block outcome evaluates to false:
  - Search for Slack connector from the left-side menu, add the "Upload File To Channel" block, and fill in all the required inputs.
  - The chart image gets posted on the Slack channel as shown below:

Configure and send the Output

Embed the chart in the email

Gmail does not support embedding base64 encoded images due to security constraints. To work around this, we advise sending the chart image as an attachment through the Send Mail block in the Mail connector if you use a Gmail account.

See Gmail blocking small embedded inline images in email template for details on the restriction.

To embed the image in an email, you'll need to replace the Slack block with Send Mail block from the Microsoft Outlook 365 connector or the Send Mail block from the Mail connector and configure the block's Type parameter to HTML.
In the body of the HTML, start adding a <img> tag and set the src parameter of the img tag to "data&colon;image/png;base64,".
Add the Get Chart Image block output at the end of the src parameter.
Click the Get Chart Image label in the input parameter, and pick the Add formula option; then search for the "base64 encode" formula to apply it to the output from the Get Chart Image block.
Finalize the img tag with an optional width and height to style the image.

Send the chart to a channel in Microsoft Teams

To send the image to Microsoft Teams, replace the Slack block with the Send Html Message With Base 64 Image block from the Microsoft Teams connector.
Configure the "Base 64" parameter of the block by mapping it to the output of the Get Chart Image block.
Click the field mapping for the Get Chart Image again and open the formula picker. Search for the base64 encode formula and apply it.
Set the Image Content Type parameter to image/png and (optionally) provide additional HTML content that will be inserted before or after the image.

The information in this article is provided as-is and will be used at your discretion. Depending on the tool(s) used, customization(s), and/or other factors, ongoing support on the solution below may not be provided by Qlik Support.

Environment

Qlik Cloud Analytics
Qlik Automate

Re: How to send a chart image to Slack, Microsoft Teams or email using Qlik Application Automation

PabloLabbeImaps — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 21:50:18 GMT

Great feature finally deployed. I'm trying to create an example but when a do the lookup do find the app in the get chart image block, it doesn't return the app I'm looking for. The list is shorter compared with the do lookup in the previous blocks from Qlik Cloud Services.

Re: How to send a chart image to Slack, Microsoft Teams or email using Qlik Application Automation

AfeefaTk — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 05:52:36 GMT

@PabloLabbeImaps The lookup will only retrieve the first 100 apps, you can use the lookup search bar to do a new lookup by searching for apps by name.

Hope this helps!!

Thanks

Re: How to send a chart image to Slack, Microsoft Teams or email using Qlik Application Automation

PabloLabbeImaps — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 11:10:23 GMT

Yes, I'm using the lookup search bar and it doesn't show all the apps I'm searching by name.
When I do the search lookup in the "Create Bookmark" block it show me all app with the name "Iron".

When I do the search lookup in the "Get Chart Image" block it show me just 2 apps with the name "Iron", not all.

I've uploaded a gif video showing the behavior of the search lookup in these 2 different blocks.

Re: How to send a chart image to Slack, Microsoft Teams or email using Qlik Application Automation

AfeefaTk — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 00:38:58 GMT

@PabloLabbeImaps I will check the issue internally and get back to you.

Thanks for raising this.

Re: How to send a chart image to Slack, Microsoft Teams or email using Qlik Application Automation

AfeefaTk — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 03:33:44 GMT

Hi @PabloLabbeImaps

We have created an internal ticket to improve the search functionality.

Meanwhile, you can manually fill in the app id in the input parameter.

Thanks

Re: How to send a chart image to Slack, Microsoft Teams or email using Qlik Application Automation

GOKULAKANNAN — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 15:38:37 GMT

Hi @PabloLabbeImaps , thanks for raising it, even am also facing the same issue, As @AfeefaTk suggested, if you include app id straighty, is it working fine?

Re: How to send a chart image to Slack, Microsoft Teams or email using Qlik Application Automation

PabloLabbeImaps — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 21:46:57 GMT

Hi @GOKULAKANNAN , yes it worked after including the app id manually.

Re: How to send a chart image to Slack, Microsoft Teams or email using Qlik Application Automation

Alastair_Ometis — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 15:23:23 GMT

Are "Get Chart Image" blocks metered in the same way as the generate report blocks?

Re: How to send a chart image to Slack, Microsoft Teams or email using Qlik Application Automation

GOKULAKANNAN — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 11:46:37 GMT

@Alastair_Ometis you can consider this feature as exporting an image in qliksense UI using Download as image

Re: How to send a chart image to Slack, Microsoft Teams or email using Qlik Application Automation

sfbi — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 17:36:43 GMT

is it possible to use MS Teams "Send Reply" to add inline images? I,m trying to add html to the content as bellow, but without success.

Re: How to send a chart image to Slack, Microsoft Teams or email using Qlik Application Automation

arychener — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 14:27:07 GMT

Hi!
Great, thanks for sharing.
I'm having a problem with the "Send mail" block in the "Mail" connector: the image doesn't appear (blank square) in the email. Whereas the same automation/image does appear in Slack.
Is anyone experiencing the same problem?

Re: How to send a chart image to Slack, Microsoft Teams or email using Qlik Application Automation

AfeefaTk — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 09:20:24 GMT

@arychener

I have observed the blank image in the email while testing since it appeared to be blocked content.

Could you please verify if that's the case, and whether you can see an option to Show Blocked Content in the email?

Please let us know your feedback.

Thanks!!

Re: How to send a chart image to Slack, Microsoft Teams or email using Qlik Application Automation

AneeshKanakdande — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 16:59:58 GMT

@AfeefaTk Unfortunately I have been facing the same issue since the release, it does not indicate to show Blocked Content, please see the image for a reference output, that's all I see.

Re: How to send a chart image to Slack, Microsoft Teams or email using Qlik Application Automation

AfeefaTk — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 02:41:55 GMT

@AneeshKanakdande Which mail server is it?

Are you opening mail in the browser or any mailbox app?

If it's in the browser, could you please try opening it in the corresponding mailbox app and check if that makes any difference?

If that still doesn't work, please share the automation workspace and run log to further troubleshoot the issue.

You can find steps on how to achieve above asked details here.

Thanks

Re: How to send a chart image to Slack, Microsoft Teams or email using Qlik Application Automation

AneeshKanakdande — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 13:33:00 GMT

@AfeefaTk Thanks for suggesting the solution(s), it does work when I open in the mailbox app, I was using the office365 mail server and sending to a gmail address. Does this mean, it would not work if I have to send emails to addresses on a different mail server (like I was trying)?

Thanks in advance!

Re: How to send a chart image to Slack, Microsoft Teams or email using Qlik Application Automation

PabloLabbeImaps — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 13:55:59 GMT

Gmail web client blocks this kind of content per security rules for the service.

There are some workarounds but it requires custom parameters in the email body, but the email component of Qlik Automation does not allow any kind of customization in the request body or parameters.

Re: How to send a chart image to Slack, Microsoft Teams or email using Qlik Application Automation

AneeshKanakdande — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 15:34:20 GMT

@PabloLabbeImaps Understood, thanks for the response!

Re: How to send a chart image to Slack, Microsoft Teams or email using Qlik Application Automation

Charly_ — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 15:36:18 GMT

Hello,

I have the same problem, sending images works well on an Outlook client, but does not work on Gmail (I send to an account on the same workspace as the account used in the qlik senders email module).

I noticed in the source code of the mail that the mail is not encoded in base64 but in "quoted-printable" and that Gmail has added escape characters after each "="
Example: <img src=3D"data
(3D is an escape character)

Any idea why Gmail adds this and not an Outlook client?

Thanks for your help

Re: How to send a chart image to Slack, Microsoft Teams or email using Qlik Application Automation

AfeefaTk — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 13:13:37 GMT

@Charly_

Gmail does not support embedding base64 encoded images due to security constraints. To work around this, we advise sending the chart image as an attachment through the Send Mail block in the Mail connector if you use a Gmail account.

See Gmail blocking small embedded inline images in email template for details on the restriction.

We have now added it as a Disclaimer to this article.

Thanks

article How to send a chart image to Slack, Microsoft Teams or email using Qlik Automate in Official Support Articles

How to send a chart image to Slack, Microsoft Teams or email using Qlik Automate

Full Automation

Configure the Automation

Configure and send the Output

Embed the chart in the email

Send the chart to a channel in Microsoft Teams

Environment

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