Qlik Sense Enterprise SaaS: Third-party extensions cannot be exported

[Sonja_Bauernfeind]

Third-party extensions cannot be exported in Qlik Sense Business/Qlik Sense Enterprise SaaS.

Environments:

• Qlik Sense Business
• Qlik Sense Enterprise SaaS

At the moment, the fact that third-party extensions are not allowed for export has been a conscious decision.

Qlik is working on removing this restriction, but it will require a deeper analysis and a decision at Legal/Architectural/Product Management levels.

The current status of the work to resolve this issue is in development, but there is no timeframe for release.

Here is additional detail for context:

• Qlik Sense Enterprise SaaS uses a different mechanism for printing and exporting content than Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows.
• In Qlik Sense SaaS a reporting service REST API is used to process these requests.
• 3rd-party visualizations (those not supported natively by Qlik) are not exportable through this service for security reasons.
• The way the export / extract process works in Qlik Sense SaaS is it runs the visualization code in a microservice.
  • It was discovered in security testing that 3rd party extensions (i.e. 3rd party code) executed in this service may contain malicious code that could attack the system and have a material impact on the customer's Qlik Sense instance and Qlik Sense on Cloud Services as a whole.

[Sonja_Bauernfeind]

@vsantana We do not have an estimated time yet. The idea is still flagged as new. 

Google Translate: Aún no tenemos un tiempo estimado. La idea todavía está marcada como nueva.

[Ken_T]

if the tenant admins can be trusted to import an extension, seems they should be trusted to export it as well. but, I hope qlik gets this security issue sorted, so tenant admins can export any and all extensions.