One problem I see with some of our NPrinting customers is the need to install NPrinting Designer locally.
Many customers no longer work locally, but via Terminal Server, Citrix or ThinClients.
This makes it difficult to use the NPrinting Designer. The problem of having only one instance of the Designer on a terminal server does not make it any easier.
Hence the idea to check if it is possible to develop the Designer web-based? Qlik Sense can also be used entirely in the browser, this approach should also be applied to NPrinting.
I am aware that MS Office locally might be a sticking point here, but I think Qlik has many smart developers who will surely find a good way to implement it.
Big advocate of this idea. I also feel the Designer software is outdated, so anything to bring this more up to date and web-based would be a major improvement.
I love this idea. From a developer/consultant point of view, having a web interface is also a big QOL improvement to avoid uninstall the versionlocally installed -> install a different version
Not only that, sometimes it is not so easy to de-/install the Designer because the affected users sometimes do not have the necessary rights to do so.
Thus a 5 minute topic becomes a topic which costs at least 30 minutes of working time, because again several people have to be brought on board (Admins etc.)
I absolutely concur and I am quite surprised by why this has not been featured in the 'newer' versions of NPrinting post 2017. A web version makes everything easy where a standalone app is not required to be installed. Also the editor needs to be more freehand than anything else. Right now, the editor feels like as if is locked.
Yeah, I think NPrinting is going the way of QlikView - a legacy enterprise product. It will stay around for a while yet, but isn't going to see anything but the minimum of updates to keep those legacy enterprise customers happy.
There are a few things that lead me to this conclusion:
Qlik's 2021 statement of direction mentions NPrinting a total of once and then only to describe what it does. (Contrast this with 51 mentions of Qlik Sense). It also says "we are planning native enterprise reporting capabilities on SaaS, expanded data alerting capabilities, and automated triggering of events based on generated insights." - no mention of NPrinting there, just some new native functionality.
On the NPrinting "talk to experts" webinar all questions that related to roadmap were answered with "it's not on the roadmap" or "it's not planned".
Various members of the Qlik team are going through all the open NPrinting ideas on here and closing them as Not Planned or Declined.
It will be exciting to see what comes next but it's always hard in the in-between of the old and the new functionality where there's no "right" choice...
yes you are right, it seems to be getting very quiet around NPrinting. Although there are still one or two old-world functions that should find their way into NPrinting.
I hope it doesn't come to a standstill just yet, many of our customers wouldn't be very happy with that.
Perhaps there will be an official statement from Qlik on this, or we will hear more at Qlik World.
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