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Publishing an application from the hub

You can publish an application that you have created to any stream to which you have publish access. If you have published an application to a stream, you can move your application between streams to which you have publish access.

When you publish an application to a stream, the application is added to that stream. A link to that application is also added to Published and marked with Stream to indicate the application is in a stream. This enables you to keep track of your published work and perform tasks such as moving or duplicating a published application more easily. When publishing an application, you can also add or remove application properties created by your Qlik Sense administrator to your application. For information on application properties, see Managing application properties.

When you publish an application or move a published application between streams, the sheets and stories of the application will become available to the other users that have access to the stream that your published application belongs to.

It is recommended that only the developer publishes their own application to ensure it is not published while still under development. If an application is published by accident, it may start to comply with the load balancing rules designated for published applications. As a result, the developer loses access to the application. To regain access, the developer needs to log out and log back in, as this action will reset the load balancing rules and potentially restore access based on the new session evaluation.

Information noteThe Variables overview is not available in published applications. If you need to add or change variables in an published application, use the variable input control available with the Dashboard bundle. For more information, see Variable input control

A published application can only be deleted from the QMC. For more information, see Publishing applications from the QMC.

Warning note To avoid exposing restricted data, remove all attached files with section access settings before publishing the application. Attached files are included when the application is published. If the published application is copied, the attached files are included in the copy. However, if section access restrictions have been applied to the attached data files, the section access settings are not retained when the files are copied, so users of the copied application will be able to see all the data in the attached files.

Do the following:

  1. In Work in the hub, right-click the application and do one of the following: 

    • Select Publish.
    • Select Move.
  2. Select the stream you want to publish the application to, in the Stream name drop-down list.

    Information noteThere is no drop-down if you only have access to one stream.
  3. Type a name in the App name field (optional). The field displays the name of the application you selected from the hub.

    Information noteIt is possible to publish many applications with identical names in a stream. Qlik Sense will indicate when there are published applications with the same name in a stream.
  4. If you want to add application properties, click Manage, select application properties, select the values, and click Apply.
  5. Click Publish or Move.

The published application is now in the selected stream. An entry for the published application is added to Published that links to the published application in its new stream.

If you publish or move an application into a stream they are currently viewing, they will be notified and can update the application list for their stream.

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