Hi @i_shamaev
I am not Qlik employee nor support and I am not biased by that. I am qlik partner hence I often face many different customers when installing, migrating and providing NPrinting based solutions.
I can understand your frustrations as I also had similar ones 2 years ago when indeed I think NPrinting was not quite ready yet. However as of now I disagree with most of your opinions regarding NPrinting.
First thing you have to realise is that it is not a "next" version of NPrinting 16, so do not expect exactly the same methodology and ways this product works. You have to understand its limitations, reasons behind them but also cherish the strong points like for example: multithreading which was lacking in v16.
I can also understand your frustrations in lack of built in Job entity - i had similar feelings few years ago, however looking at it now i don't care. There is API available and it give you a lot more flexibility than you ever had with NP16.
Performance - Indeed qvp connection seems to work slower in new version (in overall 17+ versions). I am going to follow up with Qlik re this and I am hoping I could build a case when this can be replicated. You could also greatly help us by opening support ticket and submitting your case, as you already have a working example of slower report generation (assuming that you have used QVP connection and not local connection).
This performance topic is quite delicate as a lot depends on how you built your application supporting NPrinting. There is a lot you can do to improve performance and based on my experience 99% of issues come from lack of knowledge or even simple negligence when objects are not minimized, where there is syntax in expressions which could be improved, where there are expressions in captions, where there is a lot "=" sign variables in model etc etc...There is a lot what could be done and it is usually developers mistake.
thank you for your insights and good luck!
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