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markjay27
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Developing Over Previous Developer's Work

I'm looking for a Qlik SME to serve as a help in re-developing an app someone else created. The visualizations are done, and I've piped in new data from a different source that has field names and content different that what's already there. I could use some help navigating the differences to connect the new data to the current visualizations accurately.

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Vegar
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Do I understand you correctly that you have a fully functional new application that you want to use and replace an existing publisher application that was developed by another developer?

  • Go to QMC - Apps
  • Filter out and select your new app
  • Click Publish in the bottom of the screen
  • Mark the checkbox to replace existing app
  • Navigate to, and mark the old app that was developed by the someone else 
  • Press publish, and confirm all prompts that would will publish and replace.
  • ✔️ Done 

 

markjay27
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You are correct in that there is a fully functional application. I was handed it and told to replace the data feeding the vizes (from flat manual uploaded files) with a new stream of data via API.

My original problem has morphed though. I now know the new data doesn't match the ones currently feeding the vizes so I can't simply replace them 1:1 inside the charts. Instead, I have to split fields from the API data to expose like data and concatenate them to the like data via scripting in load editor, and or via associations.

1) Does this sound like the right path forward? 2) after concatenating (and associating if necessary), how could I be sure the new data will be reflected in the vizes in a non-convoluted way? If that makes sense.

P.S. this is in Qlik Sense and I don't have administrative rights, only builder.

Vegar
MVP
MVP

if the original app is relying on a simple flat file like csv, also or qvd, and now you need to fetch from an API, then I suggest you create a new app for just fetching and transforming the data into a format that suits your app.

Use that app to fetch data from the api and then modify that data into something that you can store into qvd files and use in your original app.