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Restore deleted app in Qlik Sense, Import app in Qlik Sense

Andre_Sostizzo — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 16:09:17 GMT

A Qlik Sense app has been deleted from the Qlik Sense Management Console and needs to be restored.

! Deleting Qlik Sense application from Qlik Management Console (QMC) is generally an irreversible process. Restoring the applications is only possible if a previous backup exists. The delete process removes all files from the configured file share. See Creating a file share (Help.com).

If a backup of the files exists, proceed with the documented steps.

Note that these steps can also be applied when restoring and importing from one Qlik Sense environment to the other.

Information on server migration has also be posted to Qlik Community: Qlik Sense Migration Part1: Migrating your Entire Qlik Sense Environment. If assistance is needed, Qlik Consulting would need to be engaged. Qlik Support cannot provide walk-through assistance with server migrations outside of a post-installation and migration completion break/fix scenario.

Resolution:

To successfully restore Qlik Sense Application to the Qlik Sense environment, you must ensure backup strategy using your backup software tool for your shared folder, where Qlik Sense Application files are stored.

! If no backups of files are available, no restoration will be possible.

Restore process:

1. Find the App filename

You can find the filename (APP_ID) in the AuditActivity_Engine log.
This log is by default stored in: \\<rootShare>\Log\Engine\Audit\ by default.

An example showing App id followed by App name follows:

492 20.4.2.0 20180521T180500.118+0200 QlikServer1 0ccd5e9f-e020-4b76-a84d-144bdf903765 20180521T180500.112+0200 12.145.3.0 Command=Reload app;Result=0;ResultText=Success 0 0 2290 INTERNAL sa_scheduler d296b870-da06-4311-bacc-038992b1c954 c047d8a7-148c-4ea6-97f2-10290e706cd7 License Monitor Engine Not available Doc::DoReloadEx Reload app 0 Success 0ccd5e9f-e020-4b76-a84d-144bdf903765

2. Add extension ".qvf" to the app file

This will make the file readable and importable.

Navigate to the file on disk.
Right-click and click rename
Add .qvf as a file extension
Confirm any warnings that the file may not be accessible any more after renaming

3. Import the App

Open the Qlik Sense Management Console
Go to Apps
Locate and click Import

Locate the file on disk
Click Open

Rename the App to the original name

4. App has been imported and received a new APP_ID

You can now locate the app in the shared folder with a new App ID.

5. Find the proper stream where the app resides

6. Go to section "APPS" select the app, hit "Publish"

Click Publish

The Publishing dialogue:

7. Hit "Ok", the app is being published - IMPORTED back

8. The confirmation message should now print as Successful in the App list.

Re: Restore deleted app in Qlik Sense, Import app in Qlik Sense

Bhagwat09 — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 11:34:07 GMT

hI @Andre_Sostizzo

Thanks for the post

I just want to know that how to find the app file name i.e. 1 st step which you mention over here. I am not able to find \\<rootShare>\Log\Engine\Audit\ this path in my system rather i found below path [ screenshot] . I used to take take weekly backup of using qlik util tool. so how should It will help me to find missing app ?

when I opened the audit activity_engine_2021_11-02 file in notepad it gives me object id not the app id ?

ProductVersion Timestamp Description ProxySessionId ProxyPackageId RequestSequenceId UserDirectory UserId SessionId ObjectId ObjectName Service Origin Context Command Result Message 12.878.16.0 20211101T034828.890-0700 Command=Export Excel;Result=0;ResultText=Success 0 0 6678938 ALLENLUND nprinting bcc6d252-433c-45ea-a168-5110617ea6c7 5e1866d1-192b-455d-b027-6a545b2f3094|TYKdT Brokerage Inquiry copy_test|Not available Engine Not available GenericObject::ExportData Export Excel 0 Exported Object TYKdT of type table. Elapsed time: 305ms 12.878.16.0 20211101T034929.245-0700 Command=Export data;Result=0;ResultText=Success 0 0 6686573 ALLENLUND nprinting bac1cedf-7e19-453d-a202-6e0a3857ef5a 5e1866d1-192b-455d-b027-6a545b2f3094|VpaDJm Brokerage Inquiry copy_test|Not available Engine Not available GenericObject::ExportData Export data 0 Success 12.878.16.0 20211101T041310.401-0700 Command=Export data;Result=0;ResultText=Success 0 0 6693987 ALLENLUND nprinting a3c2f271-69ab-489c-84a9-445710e4af15 5e1866d1-192b-455d-b027-6a545b2f3094|upsGw Brokerage Inquiry copy_test|Not available Engine Not available GenericObject::ExportData Export data 0 Success

Please help me over this

Thanks

Re: Restore deleted app in Qlik Sense, Import app in Qlik Sense

Andre_Sostizzo — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 15:54:06 GMT

@Bhagwat09, I would double check what Qlik Sense is using as the <rootshare> to make sure you looked for the logs in the right place. This can be confirmed via Qlik Management Console (QMC), under "Service Cluster" configuration. The root path there is what is described as the rootshare in this article. Service Cluster information is touched by the following article. See video on minute 6:19sec. https://community.qlik.com/t5/Knowledge/How-to-change-the-share-path-in-Qlik-Sense-Service-Cluster/ta-p/1711738

Re: Restore deleted app in Qlik Sense, Import app in Qlik Sense

AbdullahMastan — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 05:14:12 GMT

@Andre_Sostizzo, Hi. we were able to restore the deleted application.

This application was a part of a reload task chain. Due to the deletion, the entire chain got earsed from the QMC, and I am unable to recreate it.

What I have tried:

1. In QMC -> Task -> Last Execution -> Filtering by day - 1 of the delete to get all application. (To no avail, since I'm only able to obtain the applications that trigger after the deleted app)

2. Reload Tasks, Operation Monitor. (To no avail)

Any workaround?

Re: Restore deleted app in Qlik Sense, Import app in Qlik Sense

ifytra — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 10:34:15 GMT

Hello there,

In order to recover the reload task chain you will need to restore a 'correct' version of your QSR database. A high level step-by-step guide would be

1. Restore the QSR database on PG SQL instance (you can find more info for this in other community threads).

2. Restore any necessary *.qvf files.

3. Run the following query on the restored QSR DB from step 1, to identify reload task chain information (task names, task applications & IDs, triggers etc).

select rt1."Name" as "Reload Task Name" ,a1."Name" as "Associated Resource" ,a1."ID" as "Application ID" ,COALESCE(ce."Name",'N/A') as "Trigger Name" ,COALESCE(rt2."Name",'N/A') as "Triggered from Associated Task" ,COALESCE(a2."Name",'N/A') as "Trigger from Associated App" ,CASE WHEN cer."RuleState"=1 THEN 'Task Successful' WHEN cer."RuleState"=2 THEN 'Task Failed' ELSE 'N/A' END AS "Task Status" ,upper(COALESCE(cast(ce."Enabled" as VARCHAR(20)),'N/A')) as "Enabled" from Public."ReloadTasks" rt1 left join Public."CompositeEvents" ce on ce."ReloadTask_ID" = rt1."ID" left join Public."Apps" a1 on a1."ID"=rt1."App_ID" left join public."CompositeEventRules" cer on cer."CompositeEvent_ID" = ce."ID" left join Public."ReloadTasks" rt2 on rt2."ID" = cer."ReloadTask_ID" left join Public."Apps" a2 on a2."ID" = rt2."App_ID" where rt1."Name" like 'YOUR_RELOAD_TASK_CHAIN_%' order by rt1."Name"

I hope this will help you.

Best regards,

iLiAS

Re: Restore deleted app in Qlik Sense, Import app in Qlik Sense

Gabbar — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 03:20:09 GMT

Is there any way to restore the version to the same APP id as the old one ?

Re: Restore deleted app in Qlik Sense, Import app in Qlik Sense

Sonja_Bauernfeind — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 08:48:05 GMT

Hello @Gabbar

The APP id is unique to the deleted record, and a Qlik Sense app cannot be restored to the same one.

All the best,
Sonja