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Video 5 - Creating a Shared Data Connection

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

This video walks you through:

Creating a standard data connection within a QlikView application
Selecting columns from a few tables defined in that connection
Making that data connection available as a centralized, shared data connection
Referencing that shared connection using the $(vG.SharedConnStringPath) variable.
One of many variables that are initialized with the QDF init script.

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This video can be see on YouTube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvg0gwRFi9w&feature=youtu.be

Re: Video 5 - Creating a Shared Data Connection

Thu, 27 Mar 2014 13:24:17 GMT

I tryed to follow the steps of the video, but using a ODBC connection, but I can't establish a connection when I reload the script. This tutorial doesn't work with ODBC connection?

Re: Video 5 - Creating a Shared Data Connection

Michael_Tarallo — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 13:34:21 GMT

Hi Eduardo - can you provide some more information?

Most importantly - you need to have the QDF initialization script as your first tab in the Script editor.

This method is assuming you are using QDF - correct?

Mike Tarallo

Re: Video 5 - Creating a Shared Data Connection

Thu, 27 Mar 2014 14:07:50 GMT

Yes, I'm using QDF and the initialization script is my first tab

I'm trying to make it work, and I think that the "$(Include..." is not working. I tryied to use directly the path insted the variable and it doesn't work too.

I have already debugged and nothing happens in the include code part.

This is the code that I have used.

$(Include=C:\QV-Docs\SourceDocs\1.Production\99.Shared_Folders\3.Include\3.ConnString\MyConnection.txt);

//$(Include=$(vG.SharedConnStringPath)\MyConnection.conn);

//ODBC CONNECT TO Treinamento (XUserId is CIfbNYdNTDdOGZVMTbUA, XPassword is fBXbeUZNRLdKWZROJTeA);

The first is with the direct path, the second is using the variable and the third is the code that is in the file inside the ConnString

Re: Video 5 - Creating a Shared Data Connection

Thu, 27 Mar 2014 14:48:43 GMT

Hi, I already solved the problem. It was the way that I was writing the path to the file.

Tanks for the attention