REST API OnDemandRequest : Retrieve charts from NPrinting report with multiple connectionId's

[andriesb]

I am using a REST API to retrieve info from a report provided by NPrinting. Through this request I am also passing some filter info to extract info from only one customer.

This works great if the Nprinting report aquires its info only one source / connectionId.

However, the NPrinting report contains info from different sources provided by different connectorId's  .

Retrieving both these charts from this report by REST , will apply my filter to the first connector, but will NOT apply this to the second chart info ; all customer info will be extracted unfiltered. 

{

    "type": "report",

    "config": {

        "reportId": "123-465",

        "outputFormat": "pdf"

    },

    "filters": {

        "initialBookmark": "",

        "additionalFilters ": []

    },

    "connectionId": "654-321",

    "selections": [

        {

            "fieldName": "RELATIE_ID",

            "selectedCount": 1,

            "selectedValues": [

                "1234"

            ],

            "isNumeric": false

        }

    ]

}

Can I retrieve info from a current Nprinting report that has more than one different connectionId 's ? Adding twice "connectionId": "654-321" is a failure,

The field to be filtered (RELATIE_ID) is the same for both charts.

The only info that I can find is Qlik NPrinting API − OnDemandRequest - Qlik | Help and here the connection is only a string and not an array .

[Frank_S]

https://help.qlik.com/en-US/nprinting/May2022/Content/NPrinting/MultiDocument/Excel-Reports-with-Obj...

Kind regards...

[andriesb]

Thanks for the reply Frank but your answer does not provide any clues if it's possible.

My Nprinting report already has multiple connections. Hoewever my question was how and if I could use these multiple connections from within my rest api ?

[Frank_S]

Apologies for the misunderstanding. 

We have a set of On-Demand API's which if used with multiple NP connections, these api's will not work. 

• https://help.qlik.com/en-US/nprinting/May2021/APIs/NP+API/index.html#OnDemand
• https://help.qlik.com/en-US/nprinting/May2021/APIs/NP+API/index.html?page=105

The answer is due to the response I shared earlier. "multidoc reports (reports with more that 1 NPrinting connection) are not supported"

If you are not using these On-Demand APIs, multiple connections for a single report should work. I've verified this with R&D as well.
Thus if this is not working, R&D is suggesting that you start a support case so we can investigate if there is a problem with the APIs.

In your example you have a single connection ID. This should work if just a single connection. But my question is why do you need the same connection ID twice? If you have a report from multiple connections (within the same NP App) each connection name (ID) should be different/unique. If you are trying to use NPrinting connections - with the same name - from different NP apps, note that this would not be valid usage as it would break connection rules.

https://help.qlik.com/en-US/nprinting/May2021/Content/NPrinting/GettingStarted/HowCreateConnections/...

Connection rules for Qlik Sense apps

The following rules apply to connections to Qlik Sense apps:

• You can create connections from a single Qlik NPrinting app to multiple Qlik Sense apps.
• Connections are not shared between Qlik NPrinting apps. If you want to connect the same Qlik Sense app to multiple Qlik NPrinting apps you must create a connection for each. 

Kind regards...

[vanwerven · Accepted solution]

As this is not possible I have created a request / idea

https://community.qlik.com/t5/Suggest-an-Idea/NPRinting-api-using-existing-report-with-multiple-conn...