Automate to get a list of Apps visible on Qlikview Access Point

[akeswani]

Hello Everyone, 

Need suggestion/ideas on resolving this problem. 

We have been using Qlikview for 5+years now ,and there are 100s of apps built by our team and other teams. I have admin access to QMC and all the QV servers.

Usually, we ask one person in our team (who doesn't/shouldn't have access to any apps) to go to Access Point and check on any app that she can access. If she can access any app, then it means security is not applied right on that app. 

I need to automate this process. I am not sure if this is possible within QMC at all or not ? I am pretty comfortable with Visual Studio .net. and also have worked with Qliksense APIs(in Angular). Is there an easy way to do this ? I can access the HTML of  Access Point page in .net, but that doesn't give me the list of apps visible on that page. Is there any way I can get the list of apps visible to a user ? any example of calling QV APIs in .net?  

OR would the accesspoint.js file be helpful in any way ? 

please throw some ideas 🙂

Thanks!

[anushree1]

Have you tried using the Governance Dashboard

[akeswani]

Thanks, but how will Governance Dashboard help me in this case? can you please share your ideas behind that ?

[akeswani · Accepted solution]

I was working with Solarwinds Admin on server monitoring and came to know that it's very easy to do it there, instead of writing our own app.

There is something called HTTP Monitor in there, that can go to the Access Point page, and search for text "Showing 0 of 0" ,if that doesn't happen any time(running every 4 hours for that user account), then it generates an alert and sends us an email.

Hope this will help someone in future.

Thanks.