Asking Qlik Answers assistant about password policies and updating its knowledge base with
tQlikOutput to change its answers
The following Job aims at updating a knowledge base with a new password policy file using
the tQlikOutput component. This knowledge base is located in a specific space in Qlik Cloud and is
used in an AI-based Qlik Answers assistant to get answers to questions regarding password
policies and other company guidelines.
Before you begin
This scenario uses Qlik Answers capabilities and its AI-based assistant. For more
information, read the corresponding Qlik Answers documentation.
Prerequisites
Procedure
In Qlik Cloud: Make sure you have:
created a knowledge base that contains the company policies.
Knowledge bases provide the unstructured data that assistants use
to generate responses to user questions. For more information, see Working with knowledge
bases.
created an assistant that uses the data in the knowledge base.
Assistants offer an interface to interact with a range of data
sources through natural language questions. For more information, see
Working with assistants.
In Talend Studio:
Drag and drop the following component from the Palette:
tQlikOutput.
The tQlikOutput component is a standalone component that
does not require input components in the Job.
Asking a question to the assistant about password guidelines in Qlik Cloud
Procedure
In Qlik Cloud, go to the space where you have created your knowledge base and open the
assistant.
Ask the assistant about the password guidelines: How often should I
change my password?.
The assistant answers that passwords should be changed every 90 days according
to the company policy.
Click View 1 source below the answer to display the data
used by the assistant to answer the question.
In this use case, the PasswordGuidelines.txt file has been
used to answer the question.
Updating password guidelines using the tQlikOutput component in the Studio
Procedure
Double-click the tQlikOutput component to display its
Component view.
Enter the URL address of your Qlik Cloud
account in the Tenant URL field, as well as the API key to
access it in the API key field.
In the Action list, select
Overwrite, as you want to overwrite the previous
password policy with a new one.
In the Local file field, enter the path to the updated
password policy file you want to upload in your Qlik Cloud
account. In this scenario it is called
PasswordGuidelinesV2.txt.
In the Remote file name field, enter the name of the
existing file as it is displayed in Qlik Cloud. In this scenario it is called PasswordGuidelines.txt.
Click … next to the Space field to
display the available spaces in your Qlik Cloud
account, and select the space in which the file to be updated is located. In this
scenario it is called Company policies.
After you select the space name from the list, its identifier will be displayed
in the field.
Click … next to the Knowledge base
field to display the available knowledge bases in your Qlik Cloud
account, and select the knowledge base that contains the file to be updated. In
this scenario it is called Company policies KB.
After you select the knowledge base name from the list, its identifier will be
displayed in the field.
Executing the Job in the Studio and testing the updated knowledge base file on Qlik Cloud
Procedure
In Talend Studio:
Press Ctrl + S to save your Job, then press
F6 to execute it.
The Run console shows that the Job has been executed
successfully.
In Qlik Cloud: Open the assistant again, and check that the
PasswordGuidelines.txt file in the Company
policies KB knowledge base has been updated and re-indexed.
Open the corresponding assistant again, and ask the same question you previously
asked: How often should I change my password?.
The assistant takes the updated information into account, and this time it
answers that passwords should be changed every 60 days.
