topic EDX - Task Completion in QlikView

EDX - Task Completion

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:19:17 GMT

I have been able to put the code together to send the EDX request to start a Publisher job in QlikView 9.0 SR1. I need help getting a response back when the task has finished. Is there another request to the EDX that needs to be made, and if so, what is the XML tag that I need to look for.

Thanks for your help.

EDX - Task Completion

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:14:10 GMT

Check out the recently released SR2 where you can request the status of the task via EDX.

EDX - Task Completion

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:39:27 GMT

I have downloaded and installed 9.0 SR2. I looked through the documentation that is along with SR2 and the only information I see on triggering the EDX is starting the process. Is the request to the EDX the same to get the status of the task as it is to start the task?

EDX - Task Completion

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:42:51 GMT

Leave it with me a few days - I'm working on 'extracting' the missing documentation from the R&D team ...

EDX - Task Completion

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:11:45 GMT

Does anyone have any code or documentation on how to monitor a task triggered by an EDX request for its completion?

EDX - Task Completion

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:16:06 GMT

Rough notes, but hopefully this should help:

The call to get the taskstatus looks like this:
<Global method="GetTaskStatus" key="%timelimitedkey% >
<TaskNameOrId>Notepad, EDX triggered</TaskNameOrId> </Global>

answer could look like this:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Connection: close
Content-Length: 694
Cache-Control: private, max-age=0
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:42:55 GMT
Server: Microsoft-HTTPAPI/2.0

<GetTaskStatus>
<GetTaskStatusResult>
<TaskStatus>
<DocumentPath />
<ID>55a4d924-f7bc-4027-9204-4c00711e001a</ID>
<LastLogMsg>Executing c:\windows\notepad.exe Executing commandline: "c:\windows\notepad.exe" in folder "c:\windows".
Process exited with exit code: 0 at 2009-10-29 12:31:31 Process exited with exit code: 0 at 2009-10-29 12:31:31 The task "Notepad, EDX triggered" finished successfully</LastLogMsg>
<Name>Notepad, EDX triggered</Name>
<Server />
<Start>On EDX</Start>
<LastExec>2009-10-29 12:31:34</LastExec>
<Status>Waiting</Status>
<DoAlert>False</DoAlert>
<TaskType>ExternalProgramTask</TaskType>
<Summary />
<Category>Default</Category>
</TaskStatus>
</GetTaskStatusResult>
</GetTaskStatus>

One important thing though:
If you only want to fire of EDX then membership in Qlikview EDX is enough but if you also want to get status of a task you need to be member of Qlikview Administrator.

EDX - Task Completion

douglaac — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:51:33 GMT

I was able to get a sample C# program (unsupported) from support that has an example of startign and monitoring a task (see attachment). However the issue I still have with this is that it only monitors the original tasks and does not demonstate a way to monitor dependent tasks that may be triggered by the initiated task.

In our 8.5 environment we had jobs that would run several tasks and we could monitor the status of the entire job (includign all tasks) using the EDX WebService. With the changes in v9.0 so far I have not found a way to repicate this functionality and be able to monitor the status of all triggered tasks.

if anyone has an example of being able to monitor dependent tasks that would be very helpful.

EDX - Task Completion

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:38:10 GMT

Hi Chris,

since we switched from 8.5 to 9.0 I miss the EDX set-up starting page w/ the test-option for URL. In the past we created a dumb webpage on the local server which started a QV-job on that server. I learned that isn't supported anymore... Any docu avail. now how to set a EDX using URL's ?

Thks, Tom

EDX - Task Completion

StefanBackstrand — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 13:24:28 GMT

TomTom > EDX tasks have to be triggered via HTTP Post in version 9. You cannot launch an EDX with URL/querystring (HTTP GET) anymore.

EDX - Task Completion

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:08:39 GMT

Any news on this topic?

Currently we can not put QV V9 into production environment because we have no way to monitor a job status (=chain of tasks).

I need a way to connect the result of a job execution triggered by an external trigger (via HTTP POST) back to the monitoring system.

EDX - Task Completion

StefanBackstrand — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:04:30 GMT

I personally do not know how to do that. I don't believe v9 has that functionality.

EDX - Task Completion

Anonymous — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 19:59:34 GMT

SturkieRK,

We are trying to implement something which I think will give you an idea on how to do what you need, here is the code, we are running ver. 9 SR7.

'++++++++++++++

Dim objHttp
Dim strUrl
Dim strData
Dim strKeyRequest
Dim strKeyAwnser

' Create a HTTP instance
Set objHttp = CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")

strUrl = "http://SERVERNAME:4720/qtxs.asmx"

strKeyRequest ="<Global method=""GetTimeLimitedRequestKey"" />"

objHttp.open "POST",strUrl,false
objHttp.setRequestHeader "Content-Type","text/xml"
objHttp.setRequestHeader "Content-Length", Len(strKeyRequest)
objHttp.Send strKeyRequest

'Parse the awnser
Dim strKey
strKey = ParseKeyAwnser(objHttp.ResponseText)

'Get the string to send in the request that triggers the task
Dim strTaskStatusString

strTaskName = "TASK NAME to MONITOR"

strTaskStatusString = GetTaskStatusString(strKey,strTaskName,strTaskPassword)

'MsgBox strTaskStatusString

'Do the actual request to trigger the task
objHttp.open "POST",strUrl,false
objHttp.setRequestHeader "Content-Type","text/xml"
objHttp.setRequestHeader "Content-Length", Len(strKeyRequest)
objHttp.Send strTaskStatusString

'Get the awnser, the awnser can contain different things but for now I only care to see if we find success
dim strAwnser
strAnwser = objHttp.ResponseText

'MsgBox strAnwser

MsgBox ParseStatusAwnser(strAnwser)

'Functions Section
Function ParseKeyAwnser(strKeyAwnser)
Dim intStartPos
Dim IntKeyLen

'Get the starting and the end position of the key
intStartPos = InStr(strKeyAwnser,"<GetTimeLimitedRequestKeyResult>")+Len("<GetTimeLimitedRequestKeyResult>")
intKeyLen = InStrRev(strKeyAwnser,"</GetTimeLimitedRequestKeyResult>") - intStartPos

'Get and return the key
ParseKeyAwnser = Mid(strKeyAwnser,intStartPos,intKeyLen)

End Function

Function ParseStatusAwnser(strKeyAwnser)

Dim intStartPos
Dim IntKeyLen
Dim strFinalLog
Dim strCurrentStatus
Dim strDoAlert

'Get the starting and the end position of the Status Key
intStartPos = InStr(strKeyAwnser,"<Status>")+Len("<Status>")
intKeyLen = InStrRev(strKeyAwnser,"</Status>") - intStartPos

strCurrentStatus = Mid(strKeyAwnser,intStartPos,intKeyLen)

If strCurrentStatus = "Running" Then
strFinalLog = "Not Available"
Else
'Get the starting and the end position of the Log Key
intStartPos = InStr(strKeyAwnser,"<LastLogMsg>")+Len("<LastLogMsg>")
intKeyLen = InStrRev(strKeyAwnser,"</LastLogMsg>") - intStartPos

strFinalLog = Mid(strKeyAwnser,intStartPos,intKeyLen)
End If

'Get the starting and the end position of the Do Alert Key
intStartPos = InStr(strKeyAwnser,"<DoAlert>")+Len("<DoAlert>")
intKeyLen = InStrRev(strKeyAwnser,"</DoAlert>") - intStartPos

strDoAlert = Mid(strKeyAwnser,intStartPos,intKeyLen)

'Get and return the key
ParseStatusAwnser = "Current Status is: " & strCurrentStatus & " and the Do Alert is " & strDoAlert

End Function

Function GetTaskStatusString(strRequestKey,strTaskName,strTaskPassword)

'Make the string and insert the key
GetTaskStatusString = "<Global method=""GetTaskStatus"" key=""" & strRequestKey & """><TaskNameOrId>" & strTaskName & "</TaskNameOrId></Global>"

End Function

'++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++