Global Master Items for Qlik Sense - Server side

This is the server side (backend) Nodejs module that enables a REST API for the GlobalMasterItems extension for Qlik Sense available in this repository (https://github.com/iviasensio/GlobalMasterItems-Library).

DEPENDENCIES

• The data (measures) is stored in files using NeDB (https://github.com/louischatriot/nedb) which is an embedded persistent or in memory database for NodeJs. Its API is a subset of MongoDB's and it's plenty fast!!

REST-API endpoints

Measure object definition:

    {
    	_id: "string"               // Autogenerated by neDB
        expression: "string"        // Measure expression
        created: "date",            // Ej: "2017-04-18T10:33:53.506Z"
        label: "string",            // Main title
        labeldyn: "string",         // Dynamic title - optional
        user: "string",             // User who wrote this message
        desc: "string",             // Description - optional
        tag: "string",              // Tag - optional
        color: "string"             // Color - optional - hex format
    }

Retrieve all measures attached to a tag or label

    GET - https://HOSTNAME:8200/api/measures?tag=TAG;&label=LABEL

Add a new measure

    POST - https://HOSTNAME:8200/api/measures

Update a specific measure

    POST - https://HOSTNAME:8200/api/measures/:id

Delete a specific measure

    DELETE - https://HOSTNAME:8200/api/measures/:id

Installation of this module

• Launch PowerShell in Administrator mode (right-click and select Run As Administrator)
• Create and change directory to an empty directory, i.e. C:\TempGMIL

    mkdir \TempGMIL; cd \TempGMIL

• Enter the below command exactly as it is (including parentheses):

    (Invoke-WebRequest "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/iviasensio/GlobalMasterItems-Server/master/setup.ps1" -OutFile setup.ps1) | .\setup.ps1

This will download and execute the setup script.

When the downloading and installation of the modules including their dependencies are finished you will be prompted for some configuration options.

Enter (HTTPS) port [8200]:
Enter (HTTP) port [8202]:

• port: This is the port where the server will be running on