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uzername
Contributor III
Contributor III

Multiple UDC for qliksense

Hi

Is it possible to have multiple UDC's for authenticating the users at the same time? For example a number of users retrieved from one AD connection and another group from a second AD or an excel sheet? Is there a document about how this works and how they syncd?

Thanks.

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vlad_komarov
Partner - Specialist III
Partner - Specialist III

Yes, but I really hope Qlik will resolve this "limitation" at some point. It worked in QV, and I do not see the reason why it should not be supported in QS...

Vlad

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thomaslg_wq
Creator III
Creator III

vlad_komarov
Partner - Specialist III
Partner - Specialist III

Yes, it's possible to use multiple UDCs at the same time, but you will not be able to use Excel-based UDC for users' authentication...

You can assign licenses to users listed in your Excel file, but you must use AD for authentication...

Very serious QS limitation, if you ask me...

VK

uzername
Contributor III
Contributor III
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So even if user lists are created by any other means still only AD will authenticate them? Sounds pointless then.

vlad_komarov
Partner - Specialist III
Partner - Specialist III

Yes, but I really hope Qlik will resolve this "limitation" at some point. It worked in QV, and I do not see the reason why it should not be supported in QS...

Vlad

harvinderjohal
Creator
Creator

I think we're getting confused on creating user profiles and attributes and authentication.  Qlik only performs the last mile of Authentication which is Authorization.  That means some other mechanism (ie. custom code, some app you've built, etc..) needs to perform the Authentication for Qlik and pass over the user ticket to Sense notifying Sense that the user asking for resources has been Authenticated.

For non-production use cases only, perform a search for ACTM or for Access Control Test Module in Community.  Here, you will come across an older document in which you can configure a custom UDC, use Node.JS app running in the background to simulate Authentication, and log in and out of Sense with the custom users you've created.