Add the Qlik technical lineage capability (in preview)
After you have created a connection to Qlik in your Edge or Collibra Cloud site, you have to add the Qlik technical lineage capability to the connection.
Required permissions
- You have a global role with the Product Rights > System administration global permission.
- You have a global role that has the Manage connections and capabilities global permission, for example, Edge integration engineer.
Steps
- Open a site.
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On the main toolbar, click
→
Settings.
The Settings page opens. -
In the tab pane, click Edge.
The Sites tab opens and shows a table with an overview of your sites. - In the table, click the name of the site whose status is Healthy.
The site page opens.
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On the main toolbar, click
- In the Capabilities section, click Add capability.
The Add capability page appears. - Select the Technical Lineage for Qlik capability template.
- Enter the required information.
Field Description Required Name
The name of the capability.
Yes
Description
The description of the capability.
No
Qlik connection
The Qlik connection that you created for ingestion in Data Catalog.
Tip Select the name that you provided in the Name field when you created a connection to Qlik.
Yes
Property This section contains the custom parameters you can specify to create technical lineage. Click Add property to add a property.
You can use this field to set the HTTP timeout duration by adding the httpTimeout property:
httpTimeoutType Value Type Name Example value Text
Plaintext
httpTimeoutSets the HTTP timeout duration, in seconds. You can enter a value in the range of 1 to 3599. The default value is 15.
15 Warning If you are a Collibra Platform for Government customer, this field is required to connect to a Collibra Data Lineage service instance:Properties for Collibra Platform for Government customersType Value Type Name Value Text
Plaintext
techlinHostThis is the URL of the Collibra Data Lineage service instance to which you want to upload metadata, for example
techlin-europe-west1.collibra.com.Example: techlin-europe-west1.collibra.com Text
Secret
techlinKeyThis is the unique API key to connect to a Collibra Data Lineage service instance.
Specify a unique user key for each Collibra environment. If you're not sure what your user key is, contact your Collibra Collibra Account Team.
<your-techlin-key>
Yes for US government customers.Save Input Metadata Select the checkbox if you want to save the input metadata extracted from the data source in ZIP files. The files can be useful for troubleshooting. Select this option only on request of Collibra Support. If this option is selected, you can download the files from the Synchronization Result dialog box once the synchronization activity is completed.
No
Logging configuration
Memory (MiB)
JVM arguments
These fields are configuration options that can help when investigating issues with the capability.
Important Use these fields only at the request of Collibra Support.
No
Debug
This setting is not valid for this integration. It should be set to false.
No
Log level
Only complete this field on the request of or together with Collibra Support.
No
- Click Create.
The capability is added to the Edge or Collibra Cloud site.
The fields become read-only.
You can now synchronize the technical lineage.
