Qlik Sense app on the internet & license utilization

[michaeldbox]

Hello everyone,

We're investigating deploying one or more Qlik Sense apps on our external-facing website.  The actual deployment of the app seems fairly straightforward but my question concerns license utilization.  How will an app on the Internet affect our user license utilization?  Also, are there any specific settings on the server that will need to be turned on (or off) to allow this?  

Thank you,

Michael

[prabhu0505]

Below are user license details, based on your use case you can plan accordingly.

Type	Token Equivalent	Access	Returning to Pool	Ideal Scenario
User token	1 Token = 1 User	Unlimited access	Not Applicable	Frequent and Heavy Usage Users
Login Access Pass	1 Token = 10 Login Access Pass	30 mins session	28 days	Less frequent and Light Usage Users

At high level, you need to take care of all below stuffs:

1. configure authentication & authorization for Qlik server to accept external users
2. firewall
3. URL & DNS - Make sure the reachability/accessibility from external network

[Vegar]

You're right there are license issues to consider. If you a publishing it externally  with your normal authentication and you pinpointing the qlik licenses to your users then your old license model will still work.

If you are thinking of a public site where everyone should be able to access without authentication then you will need to look at a QAP server which have a capacity based licensing model. Read more here: https://help.qlik.com/en-US/sense-developer/June2019/Subsystems/Platform/Content/Sense_PlatformOverv...

[michaeldbox]

Thank you both for your replies; both are very helpful. 

Now I am wondering if it would be possible to create an app in stream called StreamEveryoneAnonymous, then embed the app in the public website as indicated by this article: https://help.qlik.com/en-US/sense-developer/June2019/Subsystems/Platform/Content/Sense_PlatformOverv....  If so, is there a way to limit the number of tokens  that could be allocated to that stream?

[Vegar]

I would recommend you to look at this support article, Qlik Sense: Anonymous Hub access on how to set up anonymous access. It also show how to limit the no of login access passes.