topic Re: Call QMS API with PowerShell and get running tasks in QlikView

Call QMS API with PowerShell and get running tasks

Predrag — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:19:17 GMT

Hello everyone,

I am trying to write Powershell script that will call QMS API and give me all currently running tasks on Qlikview server. Script that i have wrote gives me only ID-es of all tasks on server, and not currently running tasks. And also does not give me details on any tasks that has returned. I have used GetTaskStatuses method from here , but I think am making some mistake in body of GetTaskStatuses which i can't get to solve.
Could you please help me?

$url = "http://ip_adress:4799/QMS/Service"
function GetServiceKey
{
   param(
     [string]$url
   ) 
    $service = New-WebServiceProxy -Uri $url -Namespace QlikViewServer -UseDefaultCredential
    $serviceKey = $service.GetTimeLimitedServiceKey()
    return $serviceKey
}
$hdrs = @{}
$hdrs.Add("SOAPACTION","http://ws.qliktech.com/QMS/12/3/IQMS3/GetTaskStatuses")
$hdrs.Add("Content-Type", "text/xml;charset=utf-8")
$hdrs.Add('X-Service-Key',$(GetServiceKey -url $url))

$body = @{}
$body = '<s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<s:Body>
 <GetTaskStatuses xmlns="http://ws.qliktech.com/QMS/12/3/">
  <filter>
    <TaskStatusFilter>
     <TaskStatuses>Running</TaskStatuses>
    </TaskStatusFilter>
  </filter>
  <Scope>
   <TaskStatusScope>Extended</TaskStatusScope>
  </Scope>
 </GetTaskStatuses>
</s:Body>
</s:Envelope>'
$res = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $url -Method Post -Body $body -UseDefaultCredential -Headers $hdrs
[xml]$myXml = $res.Content

$myXml.Envelope.Body.GetTaskStatusesResponse.GetTaskStatusesResult.TaskStatus

Thank you

Re: Call QMS API with PowerShell and get running tasks

Yang_Jiao — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 12:36:21 GMT

Hi,

I checked your request, and seems like the XML body has several incorrect places. Try this one:

$body = '<s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<s:Body>
<GetTaskStatuses xmlns="http://ws.qliktech.com/QMS/12/2/">
<filter xmlns:a="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/PIX.QMSAPI.DataObjects">
<a:TaskStatuses> 
<a:TaskStatusValue>Running</a:TaskStatusValue>
</a:TaskStatuses>
</filter>
<scope>General</scope>
</GetTaskStatuses>
</s:Body>
</s:Envelope>'

TaskStatusFilter is one type of the QMS API Data Objects, therefore you need to specify it in the name space.

Please mark the post as SOLVED if this answers your question. Thanks.

Re: Call QMS API with PowerShell and get running tasks

Predrag — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 14:45:41 GMT

Hi Yjo,

Thank you for your response. I have tried your code and script gives an error while running and return all tasks. But I have managed to use part of your code:

<a:TaskStatuses> 
<a:TaskStatusValue>Running</a:TaskStatusValue>
</a:TaskStatuses>

to get proper solution.

I used QMS Client application from power tools and Wireshark to track requests that application is sending to QMS API. Application can't return Running tasks so I saw xml request like this:

'<s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<s:Body>
    <GetTaskStatuses xmlns="http://ws.qliktech.com/QMS/11/">
    <filter
        xmlns:a="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/PIX.QMSAPI.DataObjects"
        xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
        <a:Categories
            i:nil="true"
            xmlns:b="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/Arrays"/>
        <a:EnabledState>Enabled</a:EnabledState>
        <a:LastExecution
            i:nil="true"/>
        <a:QDSIds
            i:nil="true"
            xmlns:b="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/Arrays"/>
        <a:Schedule
            i:nil="true"/>
        <a:TaskIds
            i:nil="true"
            xmlns:b="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/Arrays"/>
        <a:TaskName
            i:nil="true"/>
        <a:TaskStatuses
            i:nil="true"/>
        <a:TaskTypes
            i:nil="true"/>   
    </filter>
    <scope>All</scope>
  </GetTaskStatuses>
</s:Body>
</s:Envelope>'

Then I inserted your part of code that I have mentioned above and get the right answer from QMS API. The proper code is:

$url = "http://ip_address :4799/QMS/Service"
 
function GetServiceKey
{
   param(
     [string]$url
   ) 
    $service = New-WebServiceProxy -Uri $url -Namespace QlikViewServer -UseDefaultCredential
    $serviceKey = $service.GetTimeLimitedServiceKey()
    return $serviceKey
}

$hdrs = @{}
$hdrs.Add("SOAPACTION","http://ws.qliktech.com/QMS/11/IQMS/GetTaskStatuses")
$hdrs.Add("Content-Type", "text/xml;charset=utf-8")
$hdrs.Add("X-Service-Key",$(GetServiceKey -url $url))
$hdrs.add("Accept-Encoding", "gzip, deflate")

$body = @{}
$body = '<s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<s:Body>
    <GetTaskStatuses xmlns="http://ws.qliktech.com/QMS/11/">
    <filter
        xmlns:a="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/PIX.QMSAPI.DataObjects"
        xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
        <a:Categories
            i:nil="true"
            xmlns:b="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/Arrays"/>
        <a:EnabledState>Enabled</a:EnabledState>
        <a:LastExecution
            i:nil="true"/>
        <a:QDSIds
            i:nil="true"
            xmlns:b="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/Arrays"/>
        <a:Schedule
            i:nil="true"/>
        <a:TaskIds
            i:nil="true"
            xmlns:b="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/Arrays"/>
        <a:TaskName
            i:nil="true"/>
        <a:TaskStatuses>	   
            <a:TaskStatusValue>Running</a:TaskStatusValue>
        </a:TaskStatuses>
        <a:TaskTypes
            i:nil="true"/>   
    </filter>
    <scope>All</scope>
  </GetTaskStatuses>
</s:Body>
</s:Envelope>'

$res = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $url -Method Post -Body $body -UseDefaultCredential -Headers $hdrs

[xml]$myXml = $res.Content

$myXml.Envelope.Body.GetTaskStatusesResponse.GetTaskStatusesResult.TaskStatus

Re: Call QMS API with PowerShell and get running tasks

Yang_Jiao — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 19:04:55 GMT

Hi Predrag,

Yes, using the request from the QMS Client as template is a good approach. I used the same approach as well.

Actually you don't need all the "i:nil=true" values in your request I think, as they are NULL values.

And in the Scope you can use General instead of All, because the status you want is listed under the General section in the response.

Best regards,
Yang

Re: Call QMS API with PowerShell and get running tasks

dmitrydv — Sat, 08 Aug 2020 16:31:43 GMT

Yang,

Thank you for your answer.

Could you please help with TaskStatusFilter "Categories" property.

I would like to retrive tasks with Category = "Applications" or "ReportsHR".

-- updated..

I tried this part of xml body, but it doesn't affected and responce contains all tasks...

$body = '

<s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<s:Body>
<GetTaskStatuses xmlns="http://ws.qliktech.com/QMS/12/2/">

<a:Categories>
<a:Category>Applications</a:Category>
</a:Categories>

</filter>

<scope>All</scope>
</GetTaskStatuses>
</s:Body>
</s:Envelope>'

Re: Call QMS API with PowerShell and get running tasks

Marc — Sat, 18 Jun 2022 15:50:17 GMT

Have you ever had a look at Qlikview-CLI?

https://github.com/QlikProfessionalServices/QlikView-CLI/releases/tag/1.7.22159.3424