Possible to add QSEoW QRS command for security rules?

[mountaindude]

There is a whole set of QRS endpoints for security rules at /systemrule/...

These are however not exposed in the qlik qrs command. Possible to change this?

It would for example be quite useful to be able to export all security rules to a JSON file for backup purposes. That can still be done using direct API calls of course - more convenient to have that feature right in qlik cli instead.

[wennmo]

Hi @mountaindude, are there more endpoints that you would find useful in your use-case that is not exposed at the moment?

The qlik qrs commands exposed today are primarily intended to help in migration scenarios, but I do see the value of adding systemrule for backup or versioning purposes.

[mountaindude]

Indeed, it's a great little tool to have when setting up more comprehensive backups for client-managed QS.

Having access to security rules would be good. Same thing for custom properties and tags.

Just for reference, with data connections I tend to use something like this (simplified..) to get a date-timestamped backup of all data connections. Easy and clean, can be scripted, parametrised etc.

qlik qrs dataconnection full | Out-File $backupfolder\data_connections_$((Get-Date).ToString('yyyy-MM-dd')).json

There are of course ways of extracting/backing up tags, custom properties, security rules etc using PowerShell scripts, authenticating using certificates. Works well but having everything within qlik cli would be a bit cleaner and probably more accessible to users that aren't comfortable writing advanced PowerShell scripts.

[wennmo]

Thanks @mountaindude, this is great input. I will bring it up internally and see if we can provide more support for this type of scenario in coming releases.

[withdave]

Closing as stale. Please reply here if this request is still of interest.