Qlik CLI for SaaS: How to use the qlik app build command

[Damien_V]

This is an example of how to use the qlik app build command to report an app from json file generated using the qlik app unbuild command.

Environments:

• Qlik Cloud 

Resolution

The correct syntax to rebuild objects is to use a square bracket comma-separated list of all json structures to rebuild.

The simplest is to put those in a file, for example, the file would contain:

[

(paste object 1 obtained from unbuild here)

,

(paste object 2 obtained from unbuild here)

]

Then run the command:

qlik app build --app 32f913c8-be12-4a70-b5e0-9992e33f885f --objects "C:\temp\objects\sheet1and2.json"

Note:

If you have just deleted a sheet and want to recreate that same sheet again, you might need to wait a few seconds until the deletion is completely finished, otherwise the command will result in an error and incomplete sheets missing some objects that were not fully deleted yet as it's not possible to have 2 objects with the same ID in the same app