Qlik Sense SaaS Task Chaining/Triggering Automation

[andyyan_explorer]

Hi QS Gurus,

We just migrated our QS from Azure hosted to Qlik Cloud.

Realised that QMC is replaced by Administration console, in which I can manage the task schedules and other admin stuff.

However, there is a key feature in QMC missed in the admin console, which is task trigger in schedule. I checked the schedule reload for apps. Only time-wise schedules are available.

Then I got introduced with the task chaining via Qlik CLI scripting. Either win PowerShell or bash could do the job, which is not too bad.

HOWEVER, correct me if wrong, I reckon that you would need extra computing resource (on-prem server or cloud provider) to run the reload tasks, which might not be optimal.

Could anyone hint me if and when the task trigger scheduling would be possible in the out-of-box Qlik Sense SaaS?

Kind Regards,

AY

[Leigh_Kennedy]

It is certainly being looked at but I don't think it has been announced when this will be available. 

Right now, there are ways you could do this using a serverless solution like AWS Lambda.  @Daniel_Pilla has done this.

Regards.

[dabruehl]

According  @Thomas_Hopp  this feature is on the roadmap. Have a look at following idea:
https://community.qlik.com/t5/Suggest-an-Idea/Task-chaining-in-Qlik-Sense-SaaS/idi-p/1722455

We have a QlikSense SaaS customer with the same requirement. We created with Apache Airflow a solution to reload QlikSense Apps in a DAG. The advantage of Apache Airflow ... you do not need to write any task handling code (failure, retries, sending a mail). We just used Python and the Qlik REST API
https://qlik.dev/apis/#rest

The solution is described in following blog post (German). Google Translate might help.
https://www.heyde.ch/insights/apache-airflow-qlik-sense-saas-ladeketten-on-premise-datenupload