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About the Qlik Sense Cloud collector

Important

This collector is available in Private Preview. If you would like access to this collector, please contact your Customer Success Director.

The Qlik Sense Cloud collector harvests metadata from Qlik Sense, including collections, apps, data connections, datasets, bookmarks, measures, dimensions, fields, variables, sheets, and stories.

Note

The latest version of the Collector is 2.247. To view the release notes for this version and all previous versions, please go here.

What is cataloged

The collector catalogs the following information.

Table 1.

Object

Information cataloged

Collection

Name, Type, Created At, Updated At, Created By, Updated By, Item Count

App

ID, Title, Description, Filename, Last reload time, Created date, Modified date, Has Script, Encrypted, Owner, External Url, Thumbnail

Data Connection

ID, Name, Connection string, Created date, Modified date, External Url

Dataset

ID, Name, Description, Type, Created date, Modified date, Created By, Modified By

Bookmark

ID, Name, Description, Published, Approved, Created date, Modified date, Owner

Dimension

ID, Title, Description, Published, Approved, Created date, Modified date, Owner

Measure

ID, Title, Description, Published, Approved, Created date, Modified date, Owner, Definition, Grouping, Label expression, Active Expression, Expressions

Field

Name, Cardinal, Is Hidden, Is System

Variable

ID, Name, Description, Definition, Is script created

Sheet

ID, Title, Description, Approved, Published, Created date, Modified date, Owner

Visualization

ID, Title, Type

Story

ID, Title, Description, Approved, Published, Created date, Modified date, Owner

Slide

ID, Title, Rank

Slide Item

ID, Title, Type



Relationships between objects

By default, the data.world catalog includes catalog pages for the following resource types. Each catalog page has a relationship to the other related resource types. Note that the catalog presentation and relationships are fully configurable, so these will list the default configuration.

Table 2.

Resource page

Relationship

Collection

  • Contains App

  • Contains Dataset

App

  • Contains Bookmark

  • Contains Field

  • Contains Variable

  • Contains Sheet

  • Contains Story

  • Is contained in Collection

Bookmark

  • Is part of App

Field

  • Is part of App

Variable

  • Is part of App

Sheet

  • Contains Visualization

  • Is part of App

  • Added to Slide

Visualization

  • Is contained in sheet

Story

  • Contains Slide

  • Is part of App

Slide

  • Contains Slide Item (Sheet)

  • Is contained in Story

Dataset

  • Is contained in Collection



Lineage for Qlik Sense Cloud

Table 3.

Object

Lineage available

App

  • Uses data from Dataset

Field

  • Sourced data from Dataset

Dataset

  • Sourced data from database



Authentication supported

  • The Qlik Sense Cloud collector supports token-based authentication.

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