Make a call to external API on click of a button which returns some data to be displayed on qlik

[shalini]

Hi Experts,

I have button widget added on qlik dashboard and what i want to achieve is on click of the  button it makes a call to an external API and fetch some data/chart from there and returns it on the qlik dashboard .

Wanted to know your opinion if this is feasible . We are trying to reduce the workload of creating a separate mashup . Since we have an app built externally , we were looking for options if it is feasible to access the data from that app and return it on qlik dashboard based on user request.

Whether we can add the js code for ajax call through a custom component in qlik.

Thanks

[rwunderlich]

If you want to do a custom visualization with the returned call, create a visualization extension. 

If you want to fetch the data dynamically and visualize it in a native Qlik viz (like barchart), consider using an SSE to fetch the data. For example, deploy a function in https://github.com/RobWunderlich/qcb-qlik-sse

-Rob