Advanced Search / Date Range via the NPrinting API

[ralphjjr]

The shortest form of my question is - is it possible to apply an Advanced Search on a field via the NPrinting API? For example, a date range.

Here is a filter applied to a report. This works great. 

But obviously we use the API for some other integrations and on demand report creation from other applications. I've tried a few variations of our API calls to mimic this, but I can't seem to nail down the right one. I actually wrote an even longer post just a few minutes ago, and when I went to post it the website gave me an auth error and lost my post. So this is a much shorter one. 

I've been through the API documentation, and I  can see that there is a FilterField and FilterFieldValue, but can't quite figure out how to use them the right way. All of our current requests take the following form:

{
	"config": {
		"reportId": "report-guid-id",
		"outputFormat": "PDF"
	},
	"filters": null,
	"selections": [{
		"fieldName": "SOME_TEXT_FIELD",
		"selectedCount": 1,
		"selectedValues": ["this_value"],
		"isNumeric": false
	}],
	"connectionId": "connection-guid-id",
	"type": "report"
}

I have attempted a few variations, but I'm not getting it right.

Any ideas?

[ralphjjr]

oh, right!

What a bummer. This seems like something common that we'd want to do. Select a range. 🤔

[Ruggero_Piccoli]

Hi,

Could the following work for you?

1. Manually create a filter and copy its Id
2. Associate the filter to the report (or other entity where you need it)
3. Change the filter by using the API PUT /filters/{id} https://help.qlik.com/en-US/nprinting/June2020/APIs/NP+API/index.html?page=20#OnDemand

Via PUT you can change the advanced search parameters:

Best Regards,

Ruggero