Create an anonymous OAuth2 client

Introduction

Supported regions: Anonymous Access is available in the Sweden (se) region. It is not available in other regions, or in Qlik Cloud Government.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create an OAuth2 client to embed Qlik Cloud into public websites and web applications without user authentication. You will use the administration activity center to complete this task.

If you’re not deploying in the Sweden region, or your solution doesn’t require anonymous access, learn about other OAuth patterns supported in Qlik Cloud.

Requirements

  • A Qlik Cloud tenant
  • Tenant Admin role assigned to the user account creating OAuth2 clients

Create the OAuth2 client

  1. Access the administration activity center and select OAuth.
The oauth menu item
  1. Click Create new to open the OAuth client configuration panel.
  2. From the Client type list, select Anonymous embed.
The configuration options for an OAuth2 client
  1. Enter a name and a description for the OAuth2 client in the related fields.
The name and description input fields for an OAuth2 client configuration

  1. Enter the URI for your web application into the Add allowed origin field. Web origins permit the OAuth client to accept access token requests from your application. All other requests from other origins will be rejected.

  2. Click Add.

The URI you entered will appear in the text box.

The web origins section of an OAuth2 client configuration
  1. Click Create. A window appears containing the Client ID for the new OAuth client.
The OAuth 2 client id and client secret

To use the new OAuth client, add the Client ID into your Anonymous Access web application. Here is an example <script> element containing the setup for qlik-embed web components and referencing the OAuth2 client ID in the data-client-id attribute.

<script 
  crossorigin="anonymous"
  type="application/javascript"
  src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@qlik/embed-web-components@1/dist/index.min.js"
  data-host="https://my-anonymous-tenant.se.qlikcloud.com"
  data-client-id="86d4f834fd445b142ce45b1e38df4572"
  data-access-code="<EMBED_ACCESS_CODE>"
  data-auth-type="anonymous"
></script>

Next steps

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