Connect to your Qlik Sense Repository

There are many reasons why you might want to connect to your Qlik Sense repository.  For example, you may want to create a Qlik Sense application that lists all the applications and objects, along with current publication status.

It is quite easy to connect as it is hosted, by default, in a PostgreSQL database.

First thing that you will need is the download of the PostgreSQL ODBC drivers from: http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/odbc/versions/msi/ - there are both 32 bit and 64 bit versions available.

Once you have installed the driver, you can configure the ODBC connection:

The things that you will need to know are:

Database - QSR
Server - wherever the repository database is installed.
Port - 4432 (not the default of 5432)
User Name - postgres
Password - the password that you provided on installation.

That should be good to go.

For a good tool to browse the database, pgAdmin III is a winner: http://www.pgadmin.org/

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