Multiple Import Task Spreadsheets - NP November 2020
Hello Folks,
I am currently working on a very locked down NPrinting system. That means I can't access the User Import spreadsheet. However, users will need to be able to add and remove users from Groups without going through the Helpdesk.
My question is can I have 1 spreadsheet that contains the user information (Username, Email, AD Account...), and then have another spreadsheet that only contains the email field and additional group memberships?
The end goal is that the customer wants users to be able to add themselves to email (without visiting the NewStand) subscriptions at their own will.
In case upgraded recently or intent to upgrade any of your customers, please keep in mind important changes to the recipient import file from NPrinting April 2020 and later versions:
It is not possible to enable the customer to 'subscribe' to and 'unsubscribe' from an email distribution if they are not members of an NPrinting security role that allows for NPrinting Role or Group management. Typically as you know, this is performed by a user with an NP administrative security role. I suppose you could create a role for each user (if the volume of users that need to do this is not to significant) and give each role the permissions it needs to manage publish tasks.and or group memberships but this would be a very onerous process even for a some number of users. You 'might' even have to add an NP app/connection/report per user to make this fully work as well. So again...very onerous and likely not practical...but possible.
In any case, I like your idea subscribe/un-subcribe to a report group/distribution list however and would encourage you to propose it on the ideas site at the link below.
In case upgraded recently or intent to upgrade any of your customers, please keep in mind important changes to the recipient import file from NPrinting April 2020 and later versions:
It is not possible to enable the customer to 'subscribe' to and 'unsubscribe' from an email distribution if they are not members of an NPrinting security role that allows for NPrinting Role or Group management. Typically as you know, this is performed by a user with an NP administrative security role. I suppose you could create a role for each user (if the volume of users that need to do this is not to significant) and give each role the permissions it needs to manage publish tasks.and or group memberships but this would be a very onerous process even for a some number of users. You 'might' even have to add an NP app/connection/report per user to make this fully work as well. So again...very onerous and likely not practical...but possible.
In any case, I like your idea subscribe/un-subcribe to a report group/distribution list however and would encourage you to propose it on the ideas site at the link below.
I suppose your Qlik NPrinting system is locked down for security reasons. So adding access to an Excel file with a list of users to be imported is a security thread because a user could add the Administrator role to itself, run the user import task and take control of the system. So the people who have access to that Excel file must be trusted and already administrators of the system.
If you import users from LDAP you can also add users to groups. So the best practice you are following to set groups ad destinations in publish tasks can be implemented by adding users to groups via LDAP import but they must be added to the correct groups on the LDAP server.
Your goal is to find an easy way for people to add themselves to the distribution list of a report they are authorized. You could use the NewsStand subscriptions so a user can select when its copy of the reports are generated. Details are explained in https://help.qlik.com/en-US/nprinting/May2021/Content/NPrinting/DistributionSchedulesAutomation/News.... In this case the user will see its reports on the NewsStand, not via email as I suppose you are trying now.
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