How can we find the QVD Creater file path/source? - Qlik Community

Anonymous · ‎2012-01-18

Hi,

Is there any way to know the QVD file source ( means from where it is got generated ) while seeing the only QVD file.

Best Regards,

Shubham

ekech_infomotio · ‎2012-01-18

I think this isn't possible - at least 'out-of-the-box'.

But it would be easy to integrate some lines of code to the QVD-Creator-script which fill in the desired 'meta-information' into the QVDs as separate fields ( e.g. source-path, creation-time, creator-script, ...) or as a separate 'Meta-QVD'.

Greetings,

Edgar

Anonymous · ‎2012-01-19

Hi Edgar,

Thanks for your reply. But sorry to say that I didn't get your second part of answer. Will that be helping us to know the path of origin of QVD creator.

Thanks & Regards,

Shubham

ekech_infomotio · ‎2012-01-19

Hi Shubham,

for now, if you get your QVD from 'somewhere', it isn't possible to find out about its origin.

My proposal is only for the future creation of QVDs in a company.

In this scenario you would use QVD-Creators which add your required 'Metadata' automatically to every created QVD (or create an extra 'Meta-QVD' besides the 'normal' QVD).

If I had to build such a QVD-Creator, I would include fields for sourcedocument, sourcetype, sourcepath, name of creator-script, date of creation, QVD originally stored to path.

This also means, that your QVDs will be a bit bigger as you have your Meta-information per record.

Hope this helps.

Edgar

Anonymous · ‎2012-01-19

Hi Edgar,

Thats great piece of Information.

Thanks

ekech_infomotio · ‎2012-01-19

I have to correct myself - there is a way to get the QVD-Creator from a QVD-File, at least before the latest security update for QV11 or QV10SR4.

You can open a QVD with an editor (notepad++, notepad or any other program which can show XML).

The Header should look like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>

<CreatorDoc>C:\Users\EdgarXXXXX\Documents\opengeodb\opengeodb_generator.qvw</CreatorDoc>

...

also you will find all source-documents or souce databases which are in use by the QVD-Creator.

here is some more information:

http://community.qlik.com/thread/40308

Greetings,

Edgar