Collect and share Insight Advisor feedback

The Qlik Natural Language Usage Metrics API allows you to access usage metrics for Insight Advisor and Insight Advisor chat. These metrics can help you design better apps.

This tutorial will teach you how to use Postman to view natural language metrics for the Demo App - Beginner’s tutorial app. Specifically, you’ll use the API to filter, sort, and use pagination on the results.

Prerequisites

Download and install Postman.
An API key. This tutorial uses an API key from the Qlik tenant for authentication. See Generate your first api key for more information. The API can also be accessed using any of the authentication methods available on the platform that suits your environment.
”Demo App - Beginner’s tutorial” Qlik Sense application in a shared space. To open the app, click Explore the Demo in the hub. To move the app to a shared space, see Using apps in shared spaces and Working in shared spaces for more information.
You must have the audit administrator role. See User permissions for more detailed information.

Insight Advisor feedback API endpoint

Connection to the Insight Advisor Natural Language feedback API endpoint is made using HTTPS by default. When communicating with the API, the URL has the following form: {URL}/api/v1/questions/actions/filter where {URL} is your tenant URL.

API usage examples

Set up Postman

Start Postman.
Set the HTTP method to POST.
Enter the following path in the URL area: {url}/api/v1/questions/actions/filter The full URL should look something like: https://{your-tenant-URL}.us.qlikcloud.com/api/v1/questions/actions/filter
Select Headers and add Content-Type as the key with application/json as the value. Before making API requests, add the API key as a Bearer Token to Postman.

Show the two most recent Insight Advisor questions for an app

This example details how to show the two most recent Insight Advisor questions posed in the Demo App - Beginner’s tutorial app. Default API settings are used.

In the body of the request, set the app ID filter:
```
{
 "filter": "(appId eq \"7c1af1b6-6cee-44d5-b400-17d83aa70bef\")"
}
```
Tips:
- If you don’t know the app ID, you can view it in the URL for the app. The app ID appears after /app/ in the URL.
- If the app ID is not present or required, you can also use the appId eq "unassigned" filter. Note that you must include a valid app ID to which you have access to use the unassigned filter.
```
{
 "filter": "(appId eq \"7c1af1b6-6cee-44d5-b400-17d83aa70bef\" or appID eq \"unassigned\")"
}
```
Click Params, then, in the Key column, enter sort, and then enter -createdAtin the Value column.
In the Key column, enter limit, and then enter 2 in the Value column.

Tip: You can also edit the URL manually if you don’t want to use the Postman interface. The URL should look like this: {your-tenant-URL}/api/v1/questions/actions/filter?sort=-createdAt&limit=2

Click Send. The JSON response from the API should look something like this:

{
 "data": [
     {
         "id": "jvLMm7-_E-YQWAm6u2JBC1VWlK8vamMb",
         "createdBy": "6356de9542b09683bca842e0",
         "tenantId": "rchpF-n7id8V3k2YVrMtCZmqkO6_z1ja",
         "createdAt": "2022-11-08T22:28:08.302Z",
         "updatedAt": "2022-11-08T22:28:09.350Z",
         "appName": "Demo App - Beginner's tutorial",
         "appId": "7c1af1b6-6cee-44d5-b400-17d83aa70bef",
         "apps": [
             {
                 "id": "7c1af1b6-6cee-44d5-b400-17d83aa70bef",
                 "name": null,
                 "space_id": null,
                 "space_type": null,
                 "space_name": null,
                 "last_reload_date": null,
                 "limited_access": null
             }
         ],
         "channelId": "Insight Advisor",
         "chartType": "native",
         "feedback": [],
         "lang": "en",
         "isContextualQuery": false,
         "queryOrigin": "askQuestion",
         "nluInfo": [
             {
                 "text": "Brenda Gibson",
                 "type": "filter",
                 "role": "dimension",
                 "fieldName": "Sales Rep Name",
                 "filterValue": "Brenda Gibson"
             },
             {
                 "text": "Deli",
                 "type": "filter",
                 "role": "dimension",
                 "fieldName": "Product Group",
                 "filterValue": "Deli"
             },
             {
                 "text": "sales",
                 "type": "master_measure",
                 "role": "measure",
                 "fieldName": "Sales"
             },
             {
                 "text": "2020",
                 "type": "filter",
                 "role": "date",
                 "fieldName": "Invoice Date",
                 "filterValue": "from 1/1/2020 to 12/31/2020"
             }
         ],
         "queryError": false,
         "questionId": "27357f62-9d23-4932-9edb-eea8b6374ff6",
         "queryText": "Brenda Gibson Deli sales 2020",
         "queryType": "query",
         "recommendations": [
             {
                 "analysis": "trend",
                 "analysisGroup": "trend",
                 "chartType": "linechart",
                 "dims": [
                     "Invoice Date"
                 ],
                 "msrs": [
                     "Sales"
                 ],
                 "relevance": 1
             },
             {
                 "analysis": "process-control-rolling-mean",
                 "analysisGroup": "trend",
                 "chartType": "linechart",
                 "dims": [
                     "Invoice Date"
                 ],
                 "msrs": [
                     "Sales",
                     "Average",
                     "Upper control limit",
                     "Lower control limit"
                 ],
                 "relevance": 0.9
             },
             {
                 "analysis": "process-control-mean",
                 "analysisGroup": "trend",
                 "chartType": "linechart",
                 "dims": [
                     "Invoice Date"
                 ],
                 "msrs": [
                     "Sales",
                     "Average",
                     "Upper control limit",
                     "Lower control limit"
                 ],
                 "relevance": 0.9
             },
             {
                 "analysis": "fact",
                 "analysisGroup": "fact",
                 "chartType": "kpi",
                 "dims": null,
                 "msrs": [
                     "Sales"
                 ],
                 "relevance": 1
             }
         ],
         "responses": {
             "hasInsights": true,
             "hasChart": true
         },
         "stopWords": [],
         "version": "1.0"
     },
     {
         "id": "GNH4O_0kPitWnLV6pTNANkAaGkYvJlN6",
         "createdBy": "6356de9542b09683bca842e0",
         "tenantId": "rchpF-n7id8V3k2YVrMtCZmqkO6_z1ja",
         "createdAt": "2022-11-08T22:27:27.665Z",
         "updatedAt": "2022-11-08T22:27:27.665Z",
         "appName": "Demo App - Beginner's tutorial",
         "appId": "7c1af1b6-6cee-44d5-b400-17d83aa70bef",
         "apps": [
             {
                 "id": "7c1af1b6-6cee-44d5-b400-17d83aa70bef",
                 "name": null,
                 "space_id": null,
                 "space_type": null,
                 "space_name": null,
                 "last_reload_date": null,
                 "limited_access": null
             }
         ],
         "channelId": "Insight Advisor",
         "chartType": "native",
         "feedback": [],
         "lang": "en",
         "isContextualQuery": false,
         "queryOrigin": "askQuestion",
         "nluInfo": [
             {
                 "text": "Brenda Gibson",
                 "type": "filter",
                 "role": "dimension",
                 "fieldName": "Sales Rep Name",
                 "filterValue": "Brenda Gibson"
             },
             {
                 "text": "total sales",
                 "type": "field",
                 "role": "dimension",
                 "fieldName": "Sales Rep Name"
             },
             {
                 "text": "2020",
                 "type": "filter",
                 "role": "date",
                 "fieldName": "Invoice Date",
                 "filterValue": ">= 1/1/2020"
             }
         ],
         "queryError": false,
         "questionId": "f43dfb38-ad1c-43e5-880a-3ba2ee1e4daf",
         "queryText": "Brenda Gibson total sales 2020",
         "queryType": "query",
         "stopWords": [],
         "version": "1.0"
     }
 ],
 "links": {
     "next": {
         "href": "https://{your-tenant-URL}/api/v1/questions/actions/filter?sort=-createdAt&limit=2&page=636ad79fcca9185d46f59a1e"
     }
 },
 "meta": {
     "total": 17
 }
}

The response shows the two most recent questions, “Brenda Gibson Deli sales 2020” and “Brenda Gibson total sales 2020,” which you can see in the queryText property.

Sort the results returned

The following table describes the sorting parameters.

Parameter	Description
-createdAt	The date the question was first created, sorted from newest to oldest.
+createdAt	The date the question was first created, sorted from oldest to newest.
-updatedAt	The date the question was updated, sorted from newest to oldest.
+updatedAt	The date the question was updated, sorted from oldest to newest.

Note: By default, results are displayed from oldest to newest if you do not specify a sort order.

Now suppose you want to see only the oldest updated question.

In the Params area, in the sort row, enter +updatedAt.
In the limit row, enter 1.

Click Send. The JSON response from the API should look something like this:

{
 "data": [
     {
         "id": "YumPdBNw075wOg4rfJchpjT3HDcbBHt-",
         "createdBy": "6356de9542b09683bca842e0",
         "tenantId": "rchpF-n7id8V3k2YVrMtCZmqkO6_z1ja",
         "createdAt": "2022-11-08T00:42:31.802Z",
         "updatedAt": "2022-11-08T00:42:31.802Z",
         "appName": "Demo App - Beginner's tutorial",
         "appId": "7c1af1b6-6cee-44d5-b400-17d83aa70bef",
         "apps": [
             {
                 "id": "7c1af1b6-6cee-44d5-b400-17d83aa70bef",
                 "name": null,
                 "space_id": null,
                 "space_type": null,
                 "space_name": null,
                 "last_reload_date": null,
                 "limited_access": null
             }
         ],
         "channelId": "Insight Advisor",
         "chartType": "native",
         "feedback": [],
         "lang": "en",
         "isContextualQuery": false,
         "queryOrigin": "askQuestion",
         "nluInfo": [
             {
                 "text": "GrossSales",
                 "type": "field",
                 "role": "measure",
                 "fieldName": "GrossSales"
             }
         ],
         "queryError": false,
         "questionId": "8237b9e2-9e9e-4e9e-9182-b640b5e14321",
         "queryText": "GrossSales",
         "queryType": "query",
         "stopWords": [],
         "version": "1.0"
     }
 ],
 "links": {
     "next": {
         "href": "{your-tenant-URL}/api/v1/questions/actions/filter?sort=+updatedAt&limit=1&page=6369a6371088210efa80f802"
     }
 },
 "meta": {
     "total": 17
 }
}

As you can see, there are 17 total questions but only the oldest updated question is returned.

Limit the number of results returned

The default value for limiting results is 100. Therefore if you have several hundred results but you do not specify the limit value, only 100 results will be returned.

On the other hand, suppose you want to see only the 10 latest questions users entered into Insight Advisor.

Clear the sort checkbox.
In the limit row, enter 10.
Click Send.

Since you didn’t specify a sort order, only the 10 oldest created questions are returned.

Use Pagination

If you’ve specified a limit for the results, you can use pagination to view the next record. If you want to view the next record that you have access to, in the response body, click the link near the bottom to view the next record.

Then, execute the method to get the next record.

Prerequisites
Insight Advisor feedback API endpoint
API usage examples