Create qvw file from -prj folder using commandline?

[jerrysvensson]

Hi

I would like to recreate a qvw file from the -prj folder using commandline syntax.

Any ideas?

[marcus_sommer]

I don't use these functionality (prj) but maybe it worked per vbs with creating a new qvw with an appropriate file-name and then opening (and reload?) and saving it again.

- Marcus

[swuehl]

Here are some more hopefully useful resources:

Re: QlikView Revision control / version control / source control software‌

Qlikview and version control, part 1 - Sigma Blogg

[jerrysvensson]

Hi

We are doing that now but we have had problems sometimes. It is isn't good enough for production.

[jerrysvensson]

Hi

It is Magnus Åvitsland and me that have done the setup here at my client. Running in test enviroment at the moment. But for production we need more stability.

[swuehl]

So it seems you already have more expertise than I can provide with you.

What are the issues you've experienced in your test environment?

[jerrysvensson]

Perhaps, but not enough. 🙂

Different issues.

Macros sometimes.

Section access mistakes.

But basically I would like to get ride of the script that does partial reolad. It can be done, since it is possible when you do it from the integration in developer.

[marcus_sommer]

Maybe an additionally (sideward) step with exporting the document-layout (from the origin qvw) could be helpful if there are difficulties with the marco-modul and the load-script and section access problems might be caught with a general outsourcing from this part into include-variables which could be independent changed for the time of re-creating the qvw.

- Marcus

[jerrysvensson]

Looking into the solution from Qlik I think they use something similar to this:

Code from Rob Wunderlich:

Set Qv = CreateObject("QlikTech.QlikView")

Set docObj = Qv.CreateDoc

docObj.SaveAs qvwFullPath

docObj.CloseDoc

Set docObj = Qv.OpenDocEx (qvwFullPath,0,false)

docObj.Save

docObj.CloseDoc

Qv.Quit

Maybe this is the best solution? Delete the qvw file, then loop all -prj folders.

[swuehl]

Yes, might be a good solution to use the COM API to open and save the template doc for reconstructing the QVW from -prj. I don't think there is a command line option to do the same without performing a reload, too.