Engine API: ApplyPatches Method

[Anonymous]

Hi Everyone,

I'm new to Qlik, and I'm trying to implement a scenario comparison web page to allow different visuals displayed on the same page and let the user to interact with each portion of data separately. From Qlik's documentation, I found that adding a new alternate state to the app and assigning the state to objects might do the job. However, when I tried to update the "qStateName" property of my "qHyperCubeDef" through ApplyPatches method, it looked to me that the changes were not committed to the server. When I call getObjectProperties method through the App API, the properties are still the same.

I may be missing something very obvious in the documentation, but I have been stuck here for a while. Any suggestion would be really appreciated! Thank you very much in advance

Best,

Yanqi

[ErikWetterberg]

Hi,

Not so obvious, but getProperties does not include changes by ApplyPatches, called soft properties,

https://help.qlik.com/en-US/sense-developer/November2017/Subsystems/EngineAPI/Content/Classes/Generi...

Check out GetEffectiveProperties instead:

https://help.qlik.com/en-US/sense-developer/November2017/Subsystems/EngineAPI/Content/Classes/Generi...

Erik Wetterberg