Bulk import of Qlik Sense apps & tasks, take 2

Importing apps into Qlik Sense is a manual, tedious task. Creating reload tasks even more so. Ctrl-Q version 3.7 automates this fully, taking input from a single Excel file and then imports apps and creates tasks in a single go. Task chains supported too!

Bulk import of Qlik Sense apps & tasks, take 2

The latest version 3.7 of Ctrl-Q (available here) adds new features that make bulk import of apps and reload tasks much more useful and complete.

Ok... so what does that mean in plain English?

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It is now possible to fully automate the creation of task chains in client-managed Qlik Sense Enterprise.

Define in an Excel file which apps should be imported, what tasks should be created and how the tasks should be linked together.

Then run a single command to import apps and create reload tasks.

Great for creating fast, well documented and repeatable workflows.

The new features are

  • Import apps from QVF files on disk.
  • The imported apps can be published to any stream, app owners, tags and custom properties can be set as needed on a per-app basis.
  • Imported reload tasks can be associated with either existing apps or newly imported ones.
  • Task chains can be created just as before, but now also including tasks associated with the newly imported apps.

Documentation and examples available here.

Previous version of Ctrl-Q supported bulk import of reload tasks only, described in a previous blog post.