Publish to Qlik Cloud Services S3
The following example details definition of a Qlik Cloud Services – S3 publish job using a target that has been pre-defined (groups are configured with access to specific S3 buckets). The groups are configured with access to S3 buckets in the target definition; and QVDs are accessible to the associated groups through the publish job. All QVDs and non-QVD entities alike are published to S3 buckets as QVDs.
1. TARGET selection
Select QVD and non-QVD entities of interest into My Cart (from Discover or Catalog) or select a pre-defined dataset to publish to Qlik Cloud Services - S3.
Choose action dropdown option Qlik Cloud Services – S3 from dataset panel menu or My Cart.
Dataset Name: (required) Name the set of entities that were loaded from My Cart, or populated from Discover dataset creation, or from an existing dataset
Publish Job Name: (required) Name the publish job
Description: (optional) Enter any commentary or details about the publish job or target
Target: (required) Choose a pre-defined Qlik Cloud Services – S3 Target. The target pictured below (QCS_S3) was defined here: Publish: add target
2. ENTITY, SCHEDULE, CONFIRM screens
Stage through screens to configure publish job. Save and execute the job.
ENTITY definition
Data Loads:ALL (partitions), FIXED (choose a particular load), LATEST (load) , SAMPLE (data from latest load)
--Merge Mode is always MERGED
--File Format is always QVD
Buckets:The buckets defined in Target Definition (mapped to Groups for access) display in drop down.
Choose One Time Export for immediate one time load or schedule a Recurring Export with Customize using crontab expression option.
CONFIRM. Check the publish logs to confirm FINISHED status or error information.
3. AWS S3 Target View: Qlik Cloud Services – S3
In S3 section of AWS console, identify the bucket defined in the Qlik Cloud Services - S3 target definition. For the current example, one of the target buckets was "qcs-functional".
Select the bucket to see the new folder that was created by the publish job (naming convention is QDC_SOURCE_ENTITY).
The folder in the following example is called "QDC_INDEX2020_CPIUSHousing".
Drill-in to display the artifacts published to the S3 bucket accessible to Qlik Cloud Services.
Right-click the QVD to download or open. Any text editor should be able to open the QVD.
