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GetQDSSettings Method

Overloads

GetQDSSettings(Guid, QDSSettingsScope)

Retrieves the current settings for the QlikView Distribution service with the specified ID.

GetQDSSettings(Guid, QDSSettingsScope)

Retrieves the current settings for the QlikView Distribution service with the specified ID.

Declaration

      QDSSettings GetQDSSettings(Guid qdsID, QDSSettingsScope scope)
    

Parameters

Type Name Description
System.Guid qdsID

The ID of the service.

QDSSettingsScope scope

The scope of the settings to retrieve.

Returns

Type Description
QDSSettings

The current settings for the QlikView Distributioun service

Remarks

The scope parameter indicates which parts of the returned object that will be populated with data.

security

Requires membership of local groups QlikView Management API and QlikView Administrator.

Examples

The following example retrieves a list of QlikView Distribution Services and prints out some of their settings.

The service key injection is assumed to be handled behind the scenes. For an example of how to inject the service key, see Samples.

    using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using QMSAPI;

class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        try
        {   
            // create a QMS API client
            IQMS apiClient = new QMSClient();

            //retrieve a time limited service key
            ServiceKeyClientMessageInspector.ServiceKey = apiClient.GetTimeLimitedServiceKey();

            //Get a list of QlikView Distribution services
            List<ServiceInfo> qdsServices = apiClient.GetServices(ServiceTypes.QlikViewDistributionService);

            //Loops through all services 
            foreach(ServiceInfo info in qdsServices) 
            {                            
               Console.WriteLine(string.Format("{0}", info.Name));
               Console.WriteLine("".PadLeft(info.Name.Length, '='));

               //Gets the General settings for the current service and print information abput the folders used.
               QDSSettings qdsSettings = apiClient.GetQDSSettings(info.ID, QDSSettingsScope.General);
               if(qdsSettings != null)
               {
                   Console.WriteLine("Folders:");
                   qdsSettings.General.SourceFolders.ForEach(folder=>Console.WriteLine("\t" + folder.General.Path));   

                   Console.WriteLine("\nApplicationDataFolder:\n\t" + qdsSettings.General.ApplicationDataFolder);
               }
               Console.WriteLine("\n\n");
            }
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("An exception occurred: " + ex.Message);
        }
        // wait for user to press any key
        Console.ReadLine();
    }
}
  

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