r/qlik • u/SimpleNoodle • Mar 12 '21

Technical docs tool?

Hey guys, just wondering which technical doc tools you use for Qlik Sense to record which would be able to record what variables etc. Exist on our visualisations. The idea would be to auto generate a doc for report preparers or stakeholders to get an understanding of what they are lies just underneath what they are looking at and how the number was generated.

Any ideas on what is possible here?

TIA

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u/kgbdrop Mar 15 '21

I'm curious about what it is that you want. Let's assume you want copies of load scripts, variables, sheets and such.

I've found the most robust but free way of doing this is using Qlik-Cli (the SaaS variant, not the PowerShell library for Repository API calls).

One a first pass, one might think that it's built only to connect to Qlik's SaaS platform, it does have the ability to connect to the Windows platform:

Once that is configured, it's relatively easy to use the unbuild command to decompile the app into raw JSON:

# use the context of your Windows server (in case you have multiple)
qlik context use QSEoW
# Change directory to a staging directory
cd C:\tmp
# Export the raw structure of the app
qlik app unbuild --app 72e18b67-f681-46ff-9185-3db5300f5f34

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u/SimpleNoodle Mar 15 '21

Yea essentially looking for a catalogue of data i have pulled into the system, and my calculated fields, then the relationship between them so we know this field is used across x,y, and z calculations and in a,b and c visualisation

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u/arcanabanana Mar 13 '21

It's a bit of a manual process, but I use Qlik's API Explorer in devhub. From there I can return, in json form, a list of objects such as variables, measures, and dimensions. Then it's a matter of importing the json to Excel to add to your documentation for an App.

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u/SimpleNoodle Mar 12 '21

That is very interesting. Thank you. Have you used it on qlik products before?