QRS API - updating users custom properties

[cesaraccardi]

Hello,

I have defined a custom property "Department" and associated to apps/users for access control. I would like to automate the process of going to QMC and manually setting the "Department" values for each user. I believe this should be possible using QRS API but as I don't have much experience with the API am not sure how to do this.

I am using Postman and managed to retrieve the details of a given user as well as the custom properties associated:

Request

GET /qrs/user/2e04436f-a71a-45c5-999c-793a00ba6a77/?Xrfkey=ABCDEFG123456789 HTTP/1.1

Host: myserver

X-Qlik-Xrfkey: ABCDEFG123456789

Response

In this case User 1 is associated to Finance and Sales, now let's say I wanted to move it to Executive and Sales. Can I just update the value of "Finance" to "Executive"? I have tried sending a PUT request like below but it doesn't work (it gives a 409 Conflict error message). Does anybody know why?

PUT /qrs/user/2e04436f-a71a-45c5-999c-793a00ba6a77?Xrfkey=ABCDEFG123456789 HTTP/1.1

Host: myserver

X-Qlik-Xrfkey: ABCDEFG123456789

Content-Type: application/json

{

  "id": "2e04436f-a71a-45c5-999c-793a00ba6a77",

"customProperties": [

    {

      "id": "fb5e68ec-d382-4bd1-b9f3-81c5a5f1b3e1",

      "value": "Executive"

    }

  ]

}

Thanks in advance,

Cesar

[cesaraccardi]

Thanks for sharing that Toni, I will start using the modifiedDate from QRS from now on.

[#3]

Hello Cesar,

I have been wrestling with the same problem for days. Your approach gave me great hints!

I think basically if we need to do any POST requests with QRS API, we need the modifiedDate field in the data model.

Thanks a lot!

Mengyi

[cesaraccardi]

Hi Yuan,

I am glad to see that this post has proven to be helpful to you, wish you luck on your implementation!

Cheers,

Cesar

[mbj]

hey guys, great discussion.

I created a little example to help others

```

createCustomProperty('testBies', [1, 2]);

export function createCustomProperty(name, choiceValues = ['no values initialized']) {

   var customProperty = {

   "name": name,

   "valueType": "Text",

   "objectTypes": ["App", "ContentLibrary", "DataConnection", "ReloadTask", "Stream", "User"],

   "choiceValues": choiceValues

  }

   var result = qrs.post('/qrs/CustomPropertyDefinition', null, customProperty)

   console.log('result of create custom property: ', result)

   result.name = 'UpdatedName';

   var result = qrs.put('/qrs/CustomPropertyDefinition/' + result.id, null, result)

   console.log('result after update', result)

}

```

PS: You can find a lot of API documentation in the slide generator on http://integration.qlik.com/slides

[Anonymous]

Hey Cesar,

Can we fetch User wise assigned custom properties from Qliksense Server using QRS API?

You can look into this which I have posted:

Custom Properties for Users using QRS API's

Pls Suggest.

Regards,

Balraj Ahlawat

[bekahbeets]

I am getting either a 409 or a 400 exception when I run the following PUT command. I mainly get a "Received error code: 400::The "GetAllByMany" operation failed" error.

What is weird is I get a response with the apps data when I comment out the customProperties attribute. When i add in the customproperties attribute and json, i get the error.

Put('/app/' + appId,
{

"modifiedDate": lastModifiedDate, 
"modifiedByUserName": "instance////un",
"customProperties": [
{
"modifiedDate": lastModifiedDate,
"modifiedByUserName":  "instance////un",
"value": 'Node C'
}
] 
},
'json'