Export app using REST API and WITH CONNECTION

[CreoLabs]

Hi,

I've recently read a very useful article on app export here https://community.qlik.com/t5/Official-Support-Articles/Qlik-Sense-SaaS-Export-an-app-with-the-REST-...

It can be used for many scenarios but the most interesting (from my point of view) is for common apps usage between tenants.
Still, the solution that was proposed uses Power Shell and in my case, I'm using Qlik script (specifically REST connector) to run API calls.
Maybe some one can assist with implementing the proposed app export and app to cloud (GDrive or whatever) method, using REST API and WITH CONNECTION (or maybe some other approach).

Thanks in advance

[DaveChannon]

Hi @CreoLabs 

Your timing is excellent! We just released the Platform Operations connector for Application Automation, which helps you achieve exactly this - either directly tenant to tenant or via an intermediate drive.

There's currently a file size limit of around 20MB for each piece of content exported, but we are planning to increase that in the future. If you need more than this today, then qlik-cli will still be the better route.

More here: https://community.qlik.com/t5/Official-Support-Articles/Qlik-Application-Automation-How-to-get-start...

[CreoLabs]

Hi, thanks.
I try not to use Qlik Automation for recurring tasks as it's limited to 5000 /m

While using export each hour, I'l use most of the capacity only for this simple task. This is the reason I implement it in script.

[DaveChannon · Accepted solution]

Got it. So you can't do it this way today - the REST connector in Qlik Sense is not designed to move large binary files around. You can either use an app to store QVD files to a shared location and then reload the apps in the other tenants from that shared location, or use external tooling to move the QVF files around.

If you do want to look at external tooling, I'd suggest having a spin through the platform operations tutorial series to see how to do this with qlik-cli and other tools as this covers how to move apps between tenants (as well as lots of other content): https://qlik.dev/manage/platform-operations/overview