QDF for Qlik Sense Cloud

[aritting]

is there a framework for Qlik Sense Cloud?

[Jamie_Gregory]

@Akshesh_Patel @Daniele_Purrone Can you help with this quesiton?

[Akshesh_Patel · Accepted solution]

Hi,

@aritting  I hope this guide helps: https://www.qlik.com/us/-/media/files/resource-library/global-us/direct/technical-brief/tb-qlik-clou...

[Magnus_Berg · Accepted solution]

Hi @aritting , there is ongoing work in extending QDF to work with QS in cloud. but It's already possible to run qvs scripts from external storage, as seen below where you first need to create a file data connection to your storage (OneDrive - account).
SET vG.SharedBasePath='lib://MySpace:OneDrive - account/QDF_SaaS/Shared/';
$(include=$(vG.SharedBasePath)InitLink.qvs);

Hope this helps? Regards Magnus

[aritting]

@Magnus_Berg  I created a "Root" mount to S3. I deploy QDF to S3 with custom init script. 

[mattnunn1]

@Magnus_Berg : Is there a timeframe for extending QDF to working with Qlik Sense Cloud?

[Magnus_Berg]

Hi; Im so sorry for taking long time. My work and family has made this project to suffer, sorry for this. I have uploaded a QDF for cloud Alfa version here https://github.com/QlikDeploymentFramework/Qlik-Deployment-Framework-Cloud
There are several thinks to take in consideration:
* Shared container is a must and need to be mapped within the reload script, as seen below:
SET vG.HomeContainer='lib://user:OneDrive - mail/QDF_SaaS/Shared';
$(Include=$(vG.HomeContainer)\InitLink.qvs);
* In this release all folders in external drives need the Info.txt file to be identified as a Global variable
* external drives are really picky on trailing slash, for OneDrive no trailing slash is possible
* To identify containers stored in external drives, the base URL need to be specified in vG.SharedBaseVariablePath/ContainerMap.csv
* To identify spaces as containers just add the space name under vG.SharedBaseVariablePath/ContainerMap.csv

[Magnus_Berg]

This is an early alfa with several bugs and limitations in Qlik Cloud.
* Shared container is a must and need to be mapped within the reload script, as seen below:
SET vG.HomeContainer='lib://user:OneDrive - mail/QDF_SaaS/Shared';
$(Include=$(vG.HomeContainer)\InitLink.qvs);
* In this release all container folders in external drives (folders you want to QDF to identify as Global Variable path) need to include the Info.txt file, as this file identifies the folder as a Global path
* external drives are really picky on trailing slash, for OneDrive no trailing slash is possible
* To identify containers stored in external drives, the base URL need to be specified in vG.SharedBaseVariablePath/ContainerMap.csv
* To identify spaces as containers just add the space name under vG.SharedBaseVariablePath/ContainerMap.csv
* Qlik Cloud spaces has limited support for subfolders, so adding QDF containers to spaces (by same name) only vG.BasePath and vG.QVDPath will work
* Use $(include=$(vG.SharedBasePath)/InitLinkSkip.qvs); to skip executing the initiation code to identify related containers are, this only works when Init has run successful once before in the same location

[mattnunn1]

@Magnus_Berg : Thanks so much for providing this. I will test it against our Google Cloud Storage external drive and let you know if I find any bugs.

[Magnus_Berg]

Np, Ive added more instructions under https://github.com/QlikDeploymentFramework/Qlik-Deployment-Framework-Cloud/blob/main/README.md
Please read this as there are several differences how this need to be setup. /Cheers