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QDF containers in cloud

bmenicucci — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 17:59:49 GMT

Hello everyone,

I have a question for you: is that possible to create containers or use QDF scripts stored in cloud drives like Google Cloud Storage, Dropbox etc.?

Thanks a lot!

Brunello

Re: QDF containers in cloud

thomasmaure — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 14:42:23 GMT

Hello,

Very interesting question and I would like to get it answered as well.
I was able to use $(include= or $(must_include= with files on Azure blob storage and a directory tree similar to QDF one but I have no clue if the InitLink.qvs script works if the container is fully deployed on Azure Blob storage, nor if I can deploy it via the QlikDeploymentFramework tool .

For me the most important would be to check if the InitLink.qvs works correctly or if it requires some rework .

Regards

Thomas

Re: QDF containers in cloud

bmenicucci — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 14:48:10 GMT

Hi Thomas,
exactly the same for me: I'm trying to use my QDF scripts from Google
Storage Cloud but without success as it seems not able to properly execute
InitLink.qvs
Brunello

Re: QDF containers in cloud

thomasmaure — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 15:10:58 GMT

I think the InitLink.qvs is too sophisticated for cloud use with many subtilities like automated config file load or reverting to 99.SharedFolders when vG.HomeContainer does not point to valid directory .
It does not work probably because filesystem functions like filesize, or filetime are missing .

I am not working on this at the moment , but my idea was to rewrite a simplied InitLink.qvs with just
let vG.QVDPath= ...
let vG.ScriptPath = ...

and some code adpatation for the LCGV / DCGV functions .

Re: QDF containers in cloud

albena_mitova — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 09:46:58 GMT

Hello there,

I am trying to do the same here but it seems the InitLink.qvs cannot be executed. Could anyone from Qlik provide a little bit more clearance on the topic? Any ideas how to replicate the idea of the QDF on the Qlik Claud? @Michael_Tarallo @rwunderlich

Thanks!

Re: QDF containers in cloud

rwunderlich — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 15:09:11 GMT

I'll ping @Magnus_Berg here to see if he has any thoughts on addressing QDF SaaS compatibility.

-Rob

Re: QDF containers in cloud

bmenicucci — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 15:41:34 GMT

That's great, Rob!

Thank you so much

-Brunello

Re: QDF containers in cloud

Magnus_Berg — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 11:32:10 GMT

Hi Brunello, sorry for late reply. Ive been sick in Covid this winter. I have seen customers installing QDF including Qlik scripts using a s3 bucket. But you might need to change some code within QDF to make this work, as it's not supported out of the box today. Hope this helps Regards Magnus

Re: QDF containers in cloud

Magnus_Berg — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 11:53:10 GMT

Thx @rwunderlich sorry for late reply, been sick in Covid. Good that you are testing this out, I have not started any work on this. Also think that functions like filesize will make it more difficult, as the initiation is validating what's available on disk and assigns global variables only to existing folders, will need to dig deeper into this. Regards Magnus

Re: QDF containers in cloud

rwunderlich — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 18:00:50 GMT

Thanks for the response. I hope you are recovered.

-Rob

Re: QDF containers in cloud

Magnus_Berg — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 15:15:32 GMT

Hi Brunello, not at the moment, but we see the need to enable this. Hope that this can be delivered, but I can not promise anything, as there could be unknowns here. Regards Magnus

Re: QDF containers in cloud

nicolett_yuri — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 17:01:24 GMT

Hey guys, how are you?

We adapted QDF to work through a cloud bucket, such as: Google Cloud Storage, Amazon S3 or Azure Storage.

It was necessary to adapt practically all QDF scripts and functions, because we have Web Connectors functionalities that do not work like a common directory, such as: Search for wildcards, file functions, etc.

Another big challenge was loading the files from the bucket, as if it were any network directory.

We are still carrying out some validations, but soon I will call @Magnus_Berg so we can make a version available in QDF. Who knows, maybe the rest of the community can help me with this game, what do you think?

Re: QDF containers in cloud

thomasmaure — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 07:43:26 GMT

Hello Yuri,

This sounds great. If you have some code , I can easily test it in a Azure Blob Storage context .

Regards

Thomas

Re: QDF containers in cloud

Magnus_Berg — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 12:04:00 GMT

That sounds great @nicolett_yuri ! As soon as you done with the validations we should have a separate branch in git for this version, so we keep on-prem and cloud QDF separate. I will enhance the deploy tool to allow deployment of cloud containers as well. One important thing is to adapt the container structure for cloud so we remove non usable folders like "apps", Think the QDF structure for pure Qlik Sense would be best to use. How do we go forward? Regards Magnus

Re: QDF containers in cloud

aritting — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 20:32:45 GMT

@Magnus_Berg @rwunderlich I would really like to use my QDF and QVC subroutines! in the qlik cloud 🙂

Re: QDF containers in cloud

aritting — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 20:56:01 GMT

Has anyone cloned the github repository for this purpose?

Re: QDF containers in cloud

aritting — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 12:57:10 GMT

Do you have a publicly available repo?

Re: QDF containers in cloud

bmenicucci — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 13:05:58 GMT

Hello @aritting I think this question is more for @nicolett_yuri 🙂

Thanks, Brunello

Re: QDF containers in cloud

rwunderlich — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 22:09:55 GMT

@aritting You should be able to use QVC subroutines in the cloud. Is your question regarding how to load the QVD library when running in cloud?

-Rob

Re: QDF containers in cloud

bmenicucci — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 09:24:48 GMT

I'm still not able to make it working.... @nicolett_yuri could you share your QDF version?

@rwunderlich for your information the problem I'm facing is making QDF properly identifying the container to start from.

Any help will be highly appreciated!

Brunello