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Qlik Sense documentation and resources.
Task chaining is not yet available in the user interface of Qlik Sense Enterprise SaaS, but it is possible to accomplish through the API's.
One such example is the Task Chaining with qlik-cli found at qlik.dev, that example does however require the user to handle the scheduling themselves and also somewhere to execute the API calls .
The attached document will instead showcase an example of how to configure task chaining without an additional server and utilize the schedules defined in Qlik SaaS. It will be running in AWS Lambda and rely on one of the webhooks available in Qlik SaaS in combination with the Qlik RESTful Reloads API.
Schedule/reload any app in a chain through the SaaS Hub and rest of the chain will execute as defined.
The attached document explores how to trigger application reloads in Qlik Sense Enterprise SaaS using AWS Lambda and EventBridge.
In most enterprises, there is a need for some type of third-party automation/scheduling. One of those areas is the triggering of application reloads. Qlik SaaS allows for basic scheduling of application reloads, but further complexity and integration may be required for an organization. While there are a multitude of technologies which can be used to interact with Qlik SaaS’s RESTful APIs, this paper will be focusing on serverless execution of application reloads with AWS. Similar functionality (such as Azure Functions) exists in other cloud providers that could also be utilized.