This video will demonstrate how to install and configure Qlik-CLI for SaaS editions of Qlik Sense.
Content:
Requirements
- The user has access to a Qlik Cloud tenant
- The user has a professional license assigned in the tenant
- The user has the developer role assigned (required for API access)
- An API key can be obtained
Installation method One
- Download Qlik-CLI from GitHub
- Copy the executable to a local directory
- Add the Qlik-CLI as an Environment Variable Path.
- Open your Windows Control Panel
- Navigate to System
- Open Advanced system settings in the leftmost menu
- Click Environment Variables
- Locate Path in the System variables
- Click Edit
- Click New
- Add the path to Qlik-CLI for example C:\Tools\Qlik-QLI\
- Confirm with OK until all windows are closed
- Confirm the Qlik-CLI location path to verify it the installation completed successfully
- Open PowerShell
- Execute:
get-command qlik
- Closer PowerShell
Installation Method Two
- Download and install Chocolatey as documented on chocolatey.org.
- Open PowerShell
- Execute:
choco install qlik-cli
- This completes the installation.
Enable the Completion Feature (optional, but useful)
- Verify if a PowerShell profile exists or create a new one
- Open PowerShell
- Execute:
if ( -not (Test-Path $PROFILE) ) {
echo "" > $PROFILE
}
- Open the profile with the command notepad $PROFILE:
qlik completion ps > "./qlik_completion.ps1" # Create a file containing the powershell completion.
. ./qlik_completion.ps1 # Source the completion.
- Save it.
- Restart PowerShell
Use Qlik-CLI
Advanced and additional instructions as seen in the video can be found at Qlik-CLI on Qlik.Dev. Begin with Get Started.
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