New templates and updates to connectors in Application Automation

Application Automation has added six new templates and updated two connectors with new blocks.

New Automations templates

• Two new alert templates let automation owners know when their automation has failed or has not run in the last X days. For more information, see the following community articles:

  • Alert on failed automations in the last X days

  • Alert on automations without runs in the last X days

• Two new version control templates let you export or import an automation to GitHub.

  How to keep your automations synced over multiple tenants

New Qlik Enterprise Manager templates

• A new template reloads all tables in a Qlik Replicate task when an error occurs while processing a table. Reloading is often all that is required to correct a table error, allowing the Qlik Replicate task to continue.

  Reload the table in a Qlik Replicate task when an error occurs when processing the table

• A new template sends an email with a list of Qlik Replicate servers that have licenses which are about to expire. This provides early notification so administrators can take action before the license is out of date.

  Alert Qlik Replicate server license expiration when within X days

Automation block updates

• Microsoft Teams connector: New blocks in this connector now makes it possible to send chat messages to specific users instead of a channel. Send chat messages to a new or existing chat when chat members need to take action on something.

  How to send chat messages using the Microsoft Teams connector

• Qlik Cloud Services connector: New blocks in this connector provide license information for tenant admins about their Qlik Cloud tenant. The blocks give tenant admins visibility to license assignments, consumption, and an overview of the license.

  Getting started with the Qlik Cloud connector in Automations

Use library colors in standard edit mode

Library colors are available when you create visualizations in standard edit mode. This includes the ability to switch on library colors as an option for coloring by dimension.

Coloring a visualization

Direct Query adds support for Databricks

Direct Query now provides the ability for analytics applications to directly query cloud databases like Databricks with SQL pushdown as users interact with data through visualizations and filtering. Direct Query allows developers to build SQL-centric applications for big data analysis or near real-time scenarios and can be enabled when creating a Databricks data connection.

• Supported capabilities

• Supported data types