About the Qlik Sense Cloud collector

Warning

This collector is in public preview. It has passed our standard testing, but it is not yet widely adopted. You might encounter unforeseen edge cases in your environment. data.world is committed to promptly addressing any issues with public preview collectors. If you face any problems, please report them through your Customer Success Director, implementation team, or support team for assistance.

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 2.260. 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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