A blog for my learnings
Today, QSE SaaS doesn’t do task chaining. Instead you have two options:
This post covers a simple approach (i.e. Qlik script only) for triggering reloads of downstream apps on completion of an app reload in a way that doesn’t require much maintenance or any external systems or integrations.
In QlikView, you had the ability to select multiple variables and delete them en-mass. In Qlik Sense, the UI permits you to undertake this activity one-by-one, and each takes two or three clicks.
This bookmarklet (Chrome only this time, not tried elsewhere) removes ALL variables from a Qlik Sense application by cheating the APIs used by the Qlik Sense client.
I’m often asked how to create mashups with Qlik Sense, and I strongly believe that it’s both easy and intuitive to leverage Qlik Sense APIs to build mashups…when you understand the options available to you.
To help new developers, I’ve put together a basic mashup using the Material Design Lite template. This example connects to a provided app and demonstrates several different ways of embedding Qlik Sense into a HTML site using just a little Javascript.
This post details my switch over to using Powershell and Cloudflare to update a DNS record to a server’s current IP. This effectively emulates dyndns for this host – except it’s free.
There are a load of other options out there, which even include some simple-but-quite-clunky apps for domain registrars like NameCheap; but installing third party software is not the route I want to take.
I previously had my target domain (let’s call it targetdomain.com) hosted on a Linux box, and used SSH to update the DNS settings via a Windows server. This worked well for three years without a blip – but was clunky. I was using a scheduled task to start a bat file, which then ran Putty to run the shell script…to update a config on a server which was only hosting the domain to serve this purpose.
I’ve been using Cloudflare for years, and set aside time to write a script to use their service for this purpose. As it turns out, people have done this for years – so I’ve taken one off the shelf.
Continue reading “Using the Cloudflare API to provide free Dynamic DNS with Windows and Powershell”Default data connections to the Qlik Repository Service API (QRS API) were added in Qlik Sense 3.0.
These data connections are used by the included monitoring applications (Operations and License monitors) and have been renamed and updated in Qlik Sense June 2017.
Continue reading “Changes to default QRS API data connections in Qlik Sense from June 2017”
This post looks at using Qlik Cloud (using a paid-for tier) to gather and analyse data from Google Analytics.
Qlik Cloud doesn’t allow user-added extensions, connectors or alterations (unlike the Qlik Sense Desktop and Enterprise products), but is free at the basic tier where you can load from uploaded files. As mentioned, I am using a “Plus” account which gives me access to more connectors.
