WIP Folder Connections

Owned by Jean-Philippe Golay
Last updated: May 04, 2022
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Using WIP Folder Connections

Connecting to Qlik Sense Folder Connections (or Data Connections) can be quite tricky as Qlik is not providing anny API to manage their content. WIP will use network shares to get around this problem, and of course network sharing means Windows AD permissions and : authorizations problems

List Connections

To retrieve the list of connections WIP will use the QRS API and list all connections of Type = “folder” this straightforward

Get folder connection content

This is where it gets tricky because qlik does not provide an api for this task. WIP will open the connection, and get the “connection string” like in the QMC

Two cases exists :

  • if it is a shared drive Url starting with "\\"

    • will use it directly so PATH = “\\Nas01\QV Apps\Clinical”

  • it is a local drive Url starting with a drive letter like “C:\QV Apps\” in that case it

    • will be transformed to PATH = ”\\Url\DriveLetter$\path” so “\\QlikServer Url\C$\QV Apps\”

 

And that is where the Qlik Sense Url defined in WIP is important to be inside the internal network (not an internet url)

So use Computer name (This PC / Properties) to form the Url like https://EBIWin2016/ in our sample

And define Url like this

 

Debugging WIP Folder Connections

You can try to replicate WIP connections

In the WIP Web Server Explorer: PC / MapNetwork Drive

Folder : put WIP Server Url in the form \\serveurl\c$

 

Credentials : WIP username and Password defined in the Qlik Server