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Data Connections in QMC

AndrewMcIlwrick
Luminary Alumni
Luminary Alumni

Data Connections in QMC

It should be possible to create Data Connections in QMC. There is an API after all. Doing it in hub apps is not sustainable in a proper enterprise scale org.

17 Comments
AndrewMcIlwrick
Luminary Alumni
Luminary Alumni

Another like today ! So if Qlik cannot add this to their product backlog can we work together to come up with a workaround solution ? We can utilize the API's to do the DC creation via a script, publish it on GitHub and then at least we have a comman line driven alternative.

https://help.qlik.com/en-US/sense-developer/November2019/Subsystems/RepositoryServiceAPI/Content/Sen...

Thoughts ?

Or how about a new QMC app Mark II ?

rbartley
Specialist II
Specialist II

A thousand times yes to this. The current way of creating data connections is incredibly frustrating.  

Thomas_Hopp
Employee
Employee

Hi @AndrewMcIlwrick coming back to your idea and the status of it. We did recently delivered to our SaaS offering as part of the April Release the ability to create / manage  & maintain data connections and data files as part of a Space. That capability makes it a way easier to manage your data connections outside of an App and still using those across multiple Apps as part of multiple Spaces. We are currently not planning to include that capability into the on premise Windows product but we will improve this even more in the SaaS world to make it a very seamless integration into the developer workflow.

More than happy to talk more in detail about this if you want.

Best regards,

Thomas

Status changed to: Partially Delivered
AndrewMcIlwrick
Luminary Alumni
Luminary Alumni

Thanks - acknowledging the progress but imo it is not a complete solution. Many customers will continue to want on-premise Windows Sense for the foreseeable future. I used to work for a US bank - with an enterprise account - and they are a prime example of a customer who are unlikely to ever use Qlik SaaS. Therefore, the lack of QMC data connection creation is still a major feature gap. Given the API's are there this should be a relatively simple UI change to add a create button and parameterise a form ?

vegard_bakke
Partner - Creator III
Partner - Creator III

The best workaround I've found is in PowerShell

Install-Module Qlik-CLI



Import-Module Qlik-CLI

Connect-Qlik

New-QlikDataConnection -name <name> -type <type>

Then you can edit the connection string and other attributes from QMC.

For more info, visit:

https://ahaydon.github.io/Qlik-Cli-Windows/New-QlikDataConnection.html

AndrewMcIlwrick
Luminary Alumni
Luminary Alumni

This is a useful tip but to me the core QMC site should really have this. Not everyone is allowed to use Powershell or Qlik-Cli.

vegard_bakke
Partner - Creator III
Partner - Creator III

I totally agree. Especially when it's sooo easy to add button that does an existing API call. They even have the form with all the data connection fields ready in the Edit mode.

Now that Qlik Desktop is gone, I wonder what the official policy is to create a data connection on a QAP server.