Changelog

qlik-cli documentation on qlik.dev

The latest release of qlik.dev features a new documentation section for qlik-cli. Navigate to the qlik-cli to learn more.

Here's a sample of what you can expect with this new documentation:

a screenshot of some qlik-cli documentation on
qlik.dev

JWT token authorization tutorial released

A new tutorial for authorizing sessions to Qlik Cloud using JSON web tokens (JWT) is now available on qlik.dev named Implement JWT Authorization.

You can learn more by clicking the link preceding or reviewing the online live example qlik-cloud-jwt.

nebula.js updates

Nebula Documentation

Nebula CLI is the main entry point to start making a nebula visualization, enabling a local development server, and building extensions and mashups.

The Nebula CLI now has updated and detailed documentation updates specifically on the following

Nebula serve

Allows to run a nebula visualization with a local web development server.

nebula serve

For more details read here

Nebula build

Used to build a nebula visualization bundle.

nebula build

Nebula sense

Used to generate Qlik Sense specific files to use a nebula visualization as an extension.

nebula sense

Learn more about this here

Nebula Charts

While nebula.js provides capabilities & APIs to build mashups and custom visualizations, it's primary purpose is often to display Qlik developed charts. These charts are available through npm under the @nebula.js scope. Learn more about it [here].

Core packages

The new core build allows to significantly reduce the size of bundle, thus bringing down the overhead of downloading large amount of codes to be run. Refer to an example here

Nebula API

nebula.js API has the following new updates:

new useEmbed hook

The useEmbed hook allows access to the Nebula instance inside a chart, for adding charts into charts. Read the API specs.

new useKeyboard hook

The useKeyboard hook enables mashups to do sense-client style keyboard navigation across chart objects. Read the API specs.

new option for Field-listbox

You can now alter property definition for Field-listbox.

qlik-cli 2.5.x released

The latest version of qlik-cli allows better windows support, support for new APIs and notifications.

Here are the updates.

Chocolatey

qlik-cli is now back to Chocolatey

To install using choco:

choco install qlik-cli

To upgrade qlik-cli using chocolatey: choco upgrade qlik-cli

If you see an error like below:

Error retrieving packages from source The combination of parameters provided to this OData endpoint is no longer supported. Please refer to the this URL for more information about this deprecation.

Then first run: choco source list

Then remove the one matching nuget.org: choco source rm --name=nuget.org

Another way to fix a failing upgrade is to uninstall and reinstall.

 choco uninstall qlik-cli
 choco install qlik-cli

in v2.5.0 / v2.5.1

New - Added support for outbound proxy: you can now set the operating system environment variables called HTTPS_PROXY/HTTP_PROXY with the hostname or IP address of the proxy server.

Note: HTTPS_PROXY takes precedence over HTTP_PROXY for https requests. Qlik CLI supports only Basic Authentication.

Fix - Improve --limit flag descriptions

Fix - Updated the included latest Qlik Sense SaaS API-specifications

in v2.4.0

Updated Commands

Commands have been updated to reflect the latest API changes.

Notifications

Users to be notified when a new version of qlik-cli is available. The notification message contains URL with detailed changelog of the latest release.

Self Update CLI

The self update command enables users to update to the latest version of qlik-cli by simply running qlik update.

OpenAPI specs support

The latest qlik-cli update provides support for OpenAPI specs that define parameters at the path level. In this case, the parameters are inherited by all operations under that path.

Progress Bar

The animated progress bar displayed when uploading an app is now based on estimated upload time.

Support for unix-like Windows terminals

The latest version of qlik-cli provides better support for unix-like Windows terminals (such as MingGW, MSYS2, and Cygwin).

Fix

The latest version of qlik-cli also includes bug fixes and minor improvements.

in v2.3.0

Support for identity-providers endpoint

The identity-providers service is used for managing identity providers. In this version of qlik-cli the support for identity-providers endpoint is provied.

Support for questions endpoint

The questions endpoint lets user ask natural language questions against Qlik Sense apps enabled for conversational analytics. This version of qlik-cli provides support for this endpoint.

qlik question ask --app-id <appId> --text="new cases by department over time"

#returns a QueryResponse object containing conversational response
{
  ...
  "conversationalResponse": {
    ...
    "responses": [
      {
        "imageUrl": "/api/v1/temp-contents/6139c949f0ccf200019a09e2?inline=1",
        "sentence": {
          "text": "new cases by department over time"
        },
        "type": "chart"
      },
      {
        "narrative": {
          "text": "* New Cases is 180.\n* There were 18 of New Cases not associated to a Department. This may indicate a data quality issue."
        },
        "sentence": {
          "text": "new cases by department over time"
        },
        "type": "narrative"
      }
    ],
    "sentenceWithMatches": "**new cases** by **department** over time"
  },

Progress bar for Downloads

The latest version of qlik-cli also shows an animated progress during app download.

Spinner feedback

A new spinner feedback is added when users are waiting for server response using qlik-cli.

SaaS API Updates 17-sept-2021

Evaluations API

The Evaluations API now includes a new endpoint /evaluations/{id}/download that allows you to download a detailed XML log for your evaluation. Learn more about this here

Items API

When fetching items using the Items API, you now have the ability to filter by three new subtype resources - automation, dataset, and dataasset. Additionally, if you want to speed up response time, you can now omit the actions array from the response by setting the noActionParam to true. This ensures that the actions for each item is not evaluated.

New Natural Language API

The new Natural language API (/questions/actions/ask) enables you to ask questions and context aware partial questions against applications enabled for conversational analytics or a specific app to receive Insight Advisor generated responses and suggestions. Learn more about creating customized conversational analytics interfaces here.

Users API

In the User definition created, lastUpdated and roles fields have been deprecated.

JSON engine RPC

A new experimental method Doc.SearchValues has been added to the Qlik Associative Engine. For more details read here

qlik-cli 2.2.0 released

The latest version of qlik-cli adds resumable uploads for large Qlik Sense applications and bug fixes to improve overall usability. Here are the updates.

New feature highlights

Import large Qlik Sense apps

You can now upload large apps to SaaS tenants using qlik-cli using the qlik app import command. Use the --resumable switch to instruct the cli to handle the upload as a large file.

When you upload an app using qlik-cli, a nice animated bar appears displaying the progress.

File piping

File piping allows you to combine commands where the output of one may be used as the input of the next command you issue.

Command aliases

Aliases enable you to create shorthand commands for hard to remember long commands. For example, say you run a command frequently to find the guid of an application in your tenant, $(qlik item ls --resourceType app --name. You can use the alias command to create a shortcut it into something like qlik getAppGuid consumer+sales. This returns the complete JSON object for the consumer+sales resource in the items collection.

Limit flag added for listing apps

The --limit switch enables you to return a number of app resource objects per page ranging from 1 to 100.

Identifying experimental flags and switches in commands

Command switches and flags that are experimental features are labeled as such for your information.

Fixes worth mentioning

Temporary Upload Service

Use of the temporary upload service in qlik-cli caused problems with large app uploads and resumability. This problem has been fixed and implemented through the resumable switch in the qlik app import command.

Updated response from reload get command

In prior CLI versions, qlik reload get was not sending a correct response. This issue has been resolved.

Bullet list of all features and fixes in qlik-cli 2.2.0

feature: add limit flag when listing apps
feature: Support resumable uploads
feature: add status for qseow
feature: Support big apps
feature: show if a flag or command is experimental
feature: Add progress-bar
feature: add support for command aliases
feature: Add Patch description
feature: support for files piping
fix: Solve temporary upload service store issues
fix: Add timeout to Establish TCP connection
fix: append exprimental to long description with leading newline
fix: Honor optional request bodies
fix: handle empty stdin
fix: omit cookie header
fix: updated response for reload get

Update qlik-cli today by using brew if you use a Mac, or download the redistributable from here.

SaaS API Updates 07-May-2021

Client family API updates

Single Integration 1.2.1

Updated descriptions for URL parameters

App Integration 1.1.1

Updated definitions for URL parameters and updated examples in the documentation.

Extension 1.1.1

Numerous documentation updates throughout the API.

Distribution family API updates

Conditions 7.8.1 released public stable

The conditions API handles the evaluation of conditions set on data in Qlik Sense applications. You can use this API to establish conditions and execute condition evaluation.

Web Notifications 1.2.0 released public stable

Web notifications are tied to alerting in Qlik Sense SaaS and enable developers to identify the count of read versus unread notifications, and read information stored in generated web notifications.

Governance family API updates

Data Connections 1.0.0 released public stable

The Data Connections API enables creating, reading, updating, and deleting data connections for spaces and Qlik Sense applications.

Reload 2.2.0 updated

The latest version of the Reload API supports partial reload with a new true/false property you can set.

SaaS API updates - 2021-03-24

New Evaluation API Property - fileSizeMiB

The evaluations API now includes a property in the result schema and the evaluation detail properties indicating the file size on disk of the evaluated Qlik Sense application.

Learn more about optimizing app performance and using the API in DevOps processes here.

Apps API Export App Response Update

The export app endpoint in the apps API now provides a location header containing the URL of the exported application in the temporary content service when the endpoint returns an http 201 response.

Sense Client Object Definitions Released

Developers have requested the schemas and property definitions for the different objects created in Qlik Sense applications be made public. You can now view this information here.

You'll find all of the properties in each type of object available in Qlik Sense, and you can download the specification for use in your own custom applications.

Webhooks API set to public/stable API status

The webhooks API is now a public and stable API in alignment with the public release of tenant level webhooks in SaaS platform.

New SaaS API released - the evaluations API

New App Evaluation API

The evaluations API enables you to run performance and scalability tests for Qlik Sense applications running on Enterprise SaaS editions of the platform. This API is useful when you have large applications you want to optimize, or update an application frequently and want to ensure it remains performant.

Learn more about

optimizing app performance and using the API in DevOps processes here.

qlik-cli 2.0.0 adds new commands and squashes bugs

New commands

The license command in qlik-cli enables you to set license assignments for users in addition to providing metrics related to your tenant's overall license footprint.

The evaluation command enables you to trigger Qlik Sense app evaluations through cli, retrieve the results, and perform additional commands based on the feedback. A handy command for automating devops of Qlik Sense apps.

New features

Flags that are deprecated in qlik-cli now show a warning message when used.

qlik api-key ls --sub="test"
"Flag --sub has been deprecated, please don't use it!"

A security enhancement has been made to remove session Ids from log messages

You can now add names to external specifications you sideload into qlik-cli. Here's an example: qlik spec add ./my-spec.json --name foo

Breaking change

The response on the app command has changed. Now it returns only information from the Apps API.

#qlik app create command
app=$(qlik app create --attributes-name "example")
echo $app
#returns new response

{
  "attributes": {
    "_resourcetype": "app",
    "createdDate": "2021-02-15T07:01:43.930Z",
    "custom": {},
    "description": "",
    "dynamicColor": "",
    "encrypted": true,
    "hasSectionAccess": false,
    "id": "8be82d0f-02d2-4f0e-974c-08dc444384a7",
    "lastReloadTime": "",
    "modifiedDate": "2021-02-15T07:01:46.575Z",
    "name": "testttt2",
    "originAppId": "",
    "owner": "auth0|b96eb87010c7ad52667b2dc8b1ec0b12f97c43ae7848740874267b62aa45c856",
    "ownerId": "ffnbiWZyssMZ5ofRfLc1JzFdZrPvACFl",
    "publishTime": "",
    "published": false,
    "thumbnail": ""
  },
  "create": [...],
  "privileges": [...]
}

Instead of returning information from the items API.

#Breaking change

app=$(qlik app create --attributes-name "example")
echo $app
#returns old response

{
  "actions": [...],
  "collectionIds": [],
  "createdAt": "2021-02-15T08:15:57Z",
  "creatorId": "ffnbiWZyssMZ5ofRfLc1JzFdZrPvACFl",
  "id": "602a2dbd31d6bf3d1f471c31",
  "isFavorited": false,
  "meta": {...},
  "name": "testttt3",
  "ownerId": "ffnbiWZyssMZ5ofRfLc1JzFdZrPvACFl",
  "resourceAttributes": {...},
  "resourceCreatedAt": "2021-02-15T08:15:57Z",
  "resourceCustomAttributes": null,
  "resourceId": "22205ac6-406c-4484-b715-1da12219b044",
  "resourceReloadEndTime": "",
  "resourceReloadStatus": "",
  "resourceSize": {... },
  "resourceSubType": "",
  "resourceType": "app",
  "resourceUpdatedAt": "2021-02-15T08:15:57Z",
  "tenantId": "xrpC13FnjenBc-mhBG98ah2qNlfmwj8X",
  "thumbnailId": "",
  "updatedAt": "2021-02-15T08:15:57Z",
  "updaterId": "ffnbiWZyssMZ5ofRfLc1JzFdZrPvACFl"
}

From now on, to obtain the unique id referencing the app in the items API, you need to issue a qlik item ls command after running qlik app create.

qlik item ls --resourceId $app --resourceType app
#returns item information formerly seen in the old response

Bug fixes

Fixed a bug with qlik app ls returning non-app resources.
Fixed qlik qrs task start by-id which failed with no such operation message.
Resolved runtime errors using qlik-cli on Windows computers.

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SaaS API updates to Apps and Users APIs

Engine REST API (Apps) updated with new attributes

The Engine REST API, aka Apps API, adds attributes for app name and description for POST and PUT request operations related to publishing and republishing Qlik Sense applications.

The new checkOriginAppId attribute is a true/false property validating that the source Qlik Sense application has the same Id as the originally published app.

"attributes": {
  "name": "string",
  "description": "string"
},
"checkOriginAppId": true

For more information, see the API reference for republishing a Qlik Sense application here.

Users API add attributes for user roles

As part of the ongoing work related to updates to users, groups, and roles in the Users API added additional properties for setting roles on users and new roles that may be applied to user records. While this feature is not accessible in product user interfaces, it does exist in the API. In addition, the Users API is public/stable.

For more information, see the API reference here.

SaaS API updates to Collections, Identity Providers, Reloads and more

Collections API adds new response information with app size metrics

Endpoints for the Collections API now include two new properties in the response object. appFile displays the size of an app on disk and appMemory shows the size of an app when it is loaded in memory. Both values are displayed in bytes and appear under the resourceSize property.

"appFile": {
    "description": "Size of the app on disk in bytes",
    "type": "number"
},
"appMemory": {
    "description": "Size of the app in memory in bytes",
    "type": "number"
}

Learn more about the Collections API here.

Identity Providers V1 API released public/stable

The Identity Providers REST API is a Management API for creating and updating identity provider configurations in a tenant. For more information regarding the API, please review the API reference here.

Licenses API releases two public/stable, three public/experimental endpoints

The Licenses REST API is a Management API for assigning, changing, and removing license assignements from users in tenants.

This release includes two public/stable endpoints:

get license status
get license overview

and three public/experimental endpoints:

assign access to users
delete user license assignments
update user license assignments

Learn more about the API here.

Reloads API re-released public/stable

The Reloads API is now verified public/stable in Qlik's API governance system. The Reloads API was mistakenly set to public/stable in late 2020 after a breaking change was introduced in the code. Subsequently, the Reloads API was adjusted to public/experimental before the new year to indicate the correct status. The outstanding issues with the API have been addressed.

Temporary Contents API released public/stable

The Temporary Contents Service API is now public/stable in compliance with Qlik's API governance policy. The TCS is used by other services to provided temporary file storage for uploads to the system (for example through Qlik Data Transfer) and downloads from (for example image and sheet exports from Qlik Sense Client).

Learn more about the API here.

Developer platform updates

qlik-cli 1.7.1 released

qlik-cli 1.7.1 enables the qlik app reload command to perform partial reloads by adding the --partial flag to the end of the command. Update using homebrew on a Mac, Chocolatey on Windows, or download the linux distro from https://github.com/qlik-oss/qlik-cli/releases/tag/v1.7.1.

qlik.dev now with dark mode

qlik.dev supports dark mode.

qlik-cli 1.6.0 released

qlik-cli 1.6.0: better, stronger, faster. This release has a number of performance improvements. Update using homebrew on a Mac, Chocolatey on Windows, or download the linux distro from https://github.com/qlik-oss/qlik-cli/releases/tag/v1.6.0.

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The developer changelog on qlik.dev is the source for all of this and more!

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Changelog

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Nebula Documentation

Nebula serve

Nebula build

Nebula sense

Nebula Charts

Core packages

Nebula API

new useEmbed hook

new useKeyboard hook

new option for Field-listbox

Chocolatey

in v2.5.0 / v2.5.1

in v2.4.0

Updated Commands

Notifications

Self Update CLI

OpenAPI specs support

Progress Bar

Support for unix-like Windows terminals

Fix

in v2.3.0

Support for identity-providers endpoint

Support for questions endpoint

Progress bar for Downloads

Spinner feedback

Evaluations API

Items API

New Natural Language API

Users API

JSON engine RPC

New feature highlights

Import large Qlik Sense apps

File piping

Command aliases

Limit flag added for listing apps

Identifying experimental flags and switches in commands

Fixes worth mentioning

Temporary Upload Service

Updated response from reload get command

Bullet list of all features and fixes in qlik-cli 2.2.0

Client family API updates

Single Integration 1.2.1

App Integration 1.1.1

Extension 1.1.1

Distribution family API updates

Conditions 7.8.1 released public stable

Web Notifications 1.2.0 released public stable

Governance family API updates

Data Connections 1.0.0 released public stable

Reload 2.2.0 updated

New Evaluation API Property - fileSizeMiB

Apps API Export App Response Update

Sense Client Object Definitions Released

Webhooks API set to public/stable API status

New App Evaluation API

New commands

New features

Breaking change

Bug fixes

Subscribe to receive update notifications

Engine REST API (Apps) updated with new attributes

Users API add attributes for user roles

Collections API adds new response information with app size metrics

Identity Providers V1 API released public/stable

Licenses API releases two public/stable, three public/experimental endpoints

Reloads API re-released public/stable

Temporary Contents API released public/stable

qlik-cli 1.7.1 released

qlik.dev now with dark mode

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