Qlik Application Automation - refresh profile for data files

[psublue98]

Several data files across mulitiple spaces in the tenant either never had a profile created or are extremely out of date. In QAA I've come across patch and update dataset blocks, but I don't see a way to programmatically update the data profiles. The only way is to manually click on the profile refresh button. Is there a way in QAA? 

Without updated profiles or a way to update via QAA users can't extract accurate row and field counts and other metadata.

Manual option

 

[Supersmurf]

Any news or findings on this topic? We have made an app using the Qlik REST API to get stats like updated time, file size and rows - and it is useless on row count and size if the profiling data is not automatically updated.

Regards

Jan

[tolange]

Good point, that would be valuable to have available as a block in QAA.

From what I see the endpoint that does the refresh is: /data-sets/{data-set-id}/profiles/actions/compute

I do not see this endpoint documented on qlik.dev so my assumption is that this endpoint is not "public".

A workaround could be to use the call URL block and execute the request yourself. That would also be my test once I find time some & have a use case.