Installing and Using Qlik DataTransfer

[Andre_Sostizzo]

Qlik DataTransfer is a lightweight Windows application that lets you upload data from on-premises data sources to a SaaS editions of Qlik Sense tenant without firewall tunneling. The service account owner (SAO) or tenant administrator generates an API key from the tenant, which is then used to authenticate Qlik DataTransfer. Once authenticated, you can schedule automatic data reloads or upload data manually.

Qlik DataTransfer works with the following kinds of data sources:

• App data
• Connection data
• Folders

More documentation:

• Installing Qlik DataTransfer - SaaS editions of Qlik Sense 
• Uploading on-premises data with Qlik DataTransfer 
• Troubleshooting Qlik DataTransfer 

Demo Videos:

• Installing Qlik Data Transfer - Brief video installing Qlik Data Transfer for the first time. 
• Uploading on-premises data with Qlik Data Transfer - Brief video explaining an example data connections
• Qlik Data Transfer - Quick Demo

Note: It is not recommended that the Qlik DataTransfer utility be installed on a machine where QlikView, Qlik Sense or Qlik NPrinting are already installed. Instead, it should be installed on an independent windows machine with network access to the data sources or files used in uploading to Qlik Cloud Services. Please insure the installing account has administrative access on the installed machine. Finally, always use the latest version of the utility when reporting issues. 
Previous version are supported, but we do recommend using the latest version before report to us an issue. It might be solved already in the latest version.

[lwp89]

Thanks @Andre_Sostizzo for detailed article,

How do trigger app reload in Qlik Cloud upon successful upload of a single QVD instead of folder

I am aware that Qlik Cloud apps can automatically reloaded as soon as the QVDs are uploaded but what happens when a folder contains multiple QVDs that gets consumed by multiple app instead of a single app.

Scenario:

• We have a folder on our local file server contains 15 QVDs.
• These are dimension tables that are used by multiple apps on Qlik Cloud.
• We want one of these apps on Qlik cloud to start reload as soon as the Qlik Data Transfer completes upload of one of these QVD.

Basically we would like to use Qlik Automation to detect change in one of these QVDs and only reload one of the and not all the apps

I thought of putting that single QVD into a separate folder but that QVD also feeds into other local apps so that will not be a best solution. I also though creating two copies of this QVD (one to keep in the same folder with other QVDs and another in its separate folder to feed Qlik cloud) but again that is waste storage and reload time.

So I hope there is a solution on Qlik Cloud automation may be using some sort of webhook? 

[Raju_6952]

Hi @Andre_Sostizzo ,

Will this tool upload older qvds which were created longback.

Regards,

Raju

[Sonja_Bauernfeind]

Hello @Raju_6952 

We are unaware of restrictions based on QVD age.

All the best,
Sonja