Automation reload error due to "Variables exceed max allowed"

[PedroC]

Hi,

I'm running an automation that has several input variables that are passed to a reload block that runs a script (not an application)

That scripts has been working fine until today that I added a new variable to the reload script and automation fails with this message:

If I remove the very last variable reload works fine.

With the new one there are 21 variables passed to the script. Seems that 20 variables are fine but 21 exceed the limit.

I've looking for that limit but I've not found anything about it.

Any help?

Thanks in advance

[Eduardo_Monteiro · Accepted solution]

Hi @PedroC 

The limit is documented directly in the Reloads REST API reference on the Qlik Developer Portal: "Maximum of 20 variables allowed with a maximum length of 256 characters for each name/value." Qlik

Source: https://qlik.dev/apis/rest/reloads/

Under the POST /api/v1/reloads request body schema, in the variables array property description.

I hope that helps.

BR,

[Eduardo_Monteiro]

As a workaround you could try splitting it into two chained reload blocks.

[PedroC]

Thanks Eduardo. 

I guess the reload block in Qlik Automation should've not accepted more than 20 variables if there's such a limitation.

I don't think chaining reload blocks is a solution, at least in my case. 

Perhaps I could merge some variables in one and do some preprocessing in the script using subfields() or even GetJson()

Thanks again