Hi @mwallman
I am not going to do a video but will give you high level overview.
NPrinting will act just like a user(s) opening Qlik Sense application and apply selections, export data etc...
If you have 10 CPU on your NPrinting engine it potentially can work with Qlik Sense like 10 independent users. Whatever actions you build in your NPrinting report template, those are carried across and applied as filters.
Imagine scenario:
you have a Qlik Sense application which has sales by country. Now Country is used as a Level in NPrinting excel report. The same report has Page applied on Month field and 3 Recipients (each of them is responsible for different product categories (Sport, Casual and Formal) so they have those applied as recipient filters.
In order to generate those report NPrinting engine will act like each of the recipients and:
- open Qlik Sense Application
- apply respective filter on Product Category
- for each available value apply selection on Country and Month (as those are Levels and Pages in report) and extract data
- bluntly at this stage NPrinting is just another user which applies those selection and Qlik Sense resources used are purely dependant on your Qlik sense application data model, expressions used, volume/size of your application
If your report is based on Qlik Sense application which makes your Qlik Sense server struggle NPrinting will likely cause all of the Qlik Sense resources being used.
One thing to remember - NPrinting is not controlling Qlik Sense resources, It is only using Qlik Sense like any other person, but by doing it fast and in excessive way (since it constantly interacts with Qlik Sense when producing reports) it can use quite a lot of resources - just like a men who would sit in front of Qlik Sense application constantly applying selections, exporting data or images....
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