Displaying Workstation-Specific Data on Multiple Workshop Screen
We need to display information on screens located at each workstation in the workshop. Each screen should only show data related to its own workstation, which means a workstation-specific filter is required.
The challenge is that we have dozens of workstations, and therefore dozens of screens. To apply a dedicated filter to each screen, we would need to identify the workstation associated with that screen. However, we do not have enough licenses to configure and manage each workstation individually, and we have not found any workstation grouping mechanism.
Is there a recommended way to identify the workstation automatically and apply the correct filter without requiring a separate licensed configuration for every workstation? Has anyone implemented a similar setup using the Engine API?
Any advice or best practices would be appreciated. Thank you.
I'm not sure I follow. If each workstation has its own login (e.g. DOMAIN/WORKSTATION1, DOMAIN/WORKSTATION2, etc), you can use Section Access to limit each one to its own data and use a single sheet. If workstations do not have their own login, you're always going to have issues with concurrency and I'm fairly sure you'll also be going outside the limitations of the licensing agreement. As I said, capacity license sounds like it might be the solution for licensing, but that's up to you.
Insofar as adapting per workstation, assuming each has its own login, you can use Section Access to ensure each displays only its own information.
Insofar as licensing, other than using a capacity license (which places no limits on the number of users), I can't think of a solution, but perhaps others might have ideas.
The problem is identifying which workstation is logged in at any given time so that we can display only the data it actually needs.
We have 191 workstations, so it’s not feasible to have that many licenses. At the same time, using generic logins creates issues because filters can impact other workstations.
Also, creating one sheet per workstation is not practical, as it would be too large.
I just need to find a way to identify each workstation so that Qlik Sense can interpret it directly (using a function such as OSUser(), for example, but it returns the Qlik Sense host instead).
I'm not sure I follow. If each workstation has its own login (e.g. DOMAIN/WORKSTATION1, DOMAIN/WORKSTATION2, etc), you can use Section Access to limit each one to its own data and use a single sheet. If workstations do not have their own login, you're always going to have issues with concurrency and I'm fairly sure you'll also be going outside the limitations of the licensing agreement. As I said, capacity license sounds like it might be the solution for licensing, but that's up to you.
