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In previous versions Ctrl-Q could import master dimensions and measures from definitions in an Excel file into client-managed Qlik Sense Enterprise. Ctrl-Q 3.9 adds full color support to those imports.
Several of the Butler family of open source tools for Qlik Sense Enterprise are intended to run 24/7. This article looks at how to achieve enterprise grade deployment of Butler & friends using standard Windows services.
Butler CW preloads apps into client-managed Qlik Sense servers, making the apps more responsive when users then access them. Latest version adds several security enhancements and the ability to run Butler CW as a Windows service.
Ctrl-Q now supports bulk export of both Qlik Sense apps and reload tasks, as well as storing associated metadata in a file on disk. Then import those apps/tasks into Sense again. Reload-tasks-as-code is now possible!
Importing apps into Qlik Sense is a manual, tedious task. Creating reload tasks even more so. Ctrl-Q version 3.7 automates this fully, taking input from a single Excel file and then imports apps and creates tasks in a single go. Task chains supported too!
Can a language model like ChatGPT be used to create code for Qlik Sense? The answer is yes - and no. It's very impressive indeed but doesn't quite replace us humans yet.
Butler SOS provides real-time monitoring for client-managed Qlik Sense. Key metrics for both Sense and Windows are monitored together with errors and warnings from the Sense logs. In this article you find a complete recipe for how to set up Butler SOS.
Ctrl-Q recipes for automating otherwise manual, repetitive, time consuming and error prone tasks when developing Qlik Sense applications.
Setting custom properties for dozens or hundreds of Qlik Sense reload tasks can easily take hours. Ctrl-Q has a command that automate this and also remove the risk for manual errors.
Qlik Sense lacks a good built-in viewer for task dependencies. Ctrl-Q address this by offering a cross-platform tool for visualising Sense task trees, including latest execution result.
The open source tool Ctrl-Q can be used to do bulk export/import of reload tasks in client-managed Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows.
It's been a while since the last newsletter, not because of lack of progress on the various Butler tools - rather the opposite. We have also moved ptarmiganlabs.com to a new, better hosting solution. Looong overdue but it finally happened. Among other things this means that you can