App Tags

[Adfc_NZ]

Hi,

We are looking to do a tidy-up of unused app tags, so I am looking to see if anyone has ever gone through this process in Qlik Cloud. I have adapted the App Analyzer and am able to return all tags that are being used against what apps, but can't seem to be able to pull all tags into my app. I also tested by adding a tag that was not on the list I could see, to an app, and when I refreshed the app that tag was being correctly displayed.

However, I am now trying to list all tags regardless of them being used or not as by using the code from App Analyzer, that's all I'm getting. And could those tags be being used in other objects other than apps?

Also as a follow-up, is there a way to delete tags that you might know of?

I understand that there exist or may exist automation blocks that do all of this, but they require specific configuration that I'm not familiar with so, didn't try to go down that road, which may actually be the best one but unsure of how to create those and what types of connections we need to create and what if any impact those new connections might have across the tenancy?

Sorry for the long post, any and all help/suggestions will be much appreciated.

Thank you.

[Dave_Channon · Accepted solution]

Tags are "public" collections, which means they can be tagged against resources from the `api/v1/items` endpoint. A tenant administrator can list all items in their tenant over API, and also see all tags.

Your simplest path here is to use Automate. It is probably fairly safe to just loop all public collections, and if empty, remove them as a Tenant Admin. If running this as a normal user there is risk. Additionally, if you have disabled features in your tenant you may have hidden resources - but I suggest you probably need not be too concerned about those since they will be deactivated anyway.

I attached an automation which does this. Run it with the delete block disabled to see what it shows, then have fun.