topic Re: Qlik Sense Apps / Source Control in App Development

Qlik Sense Apps / Source Control

marcoyukon — Wed, 28 Jun 2017 21:36:20 GMT

I am looking for a solution to deserialize qlik apps for source control versioning and then be able to serialize the app back to the native .qvf file should a rollback to a prior version is needed, etc. I found on qlik branch QS-backup-and-restore-app, but I am having issues with it. Is there an alternative solution ?

Re: Qlik Sense Apps / Source Control

rwunderlich — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 00:13:25 GMT

The Qlik Sense QMC Utilities

provide a "Source Control Assistant" module.

-Rob

http://masterssummit.com

http://qlikviewcookbook.com

Re: Qlik Sense Apps / Source Control

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 11:59:10 GMT

There are some external tools on the market which offer this possibility of versioning. IN4BI's Platform Manager for example.

Re: Qlik Sense Apps / Source Control

marcoyukon — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 17:18:15 GMT

I've downloaded QMC Utilities once, but did not realize there was a backup / restore option. Thank you, will give it a try..

Re: Qlik Sense Apps / Source Control

marcoyukon — Fri, 30 Jun 2017 19:17:50 GMT

I tried the backup/restore option using QMC Utilities and noticed it is possible to download the full app (without the data :--) serialized to json files, basically all the objects metadata contained in an app. Then was able to upload the generated zip to TFS for each iteration of an app development. Luckily, The tool I use to compare versions (Beyond Compare) integrates well with TFS and can compare files contained in two different zip archives changesets . The process isn't perfect, but it better keeping copies of apps exported via QMC in a network drive and allows me to rollback to a previous iteration, by downloading a version and uploading it via QMC Utilities. It would be great if Qlik could develop a better process for easy versioning steps as part of the core product. Thanks for that piece of info, it helped a lot.

Re: Qlik Sense Apps / Source Control

NS_Qlikupdates — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 06:53:46 GMT

Hi,

Qlik Sense apps are stored as .qvf binary files, so there is no built-in way to directly use them for source control or version comparison.

To handle this, teams usually use external tools to extract app content into a readable format, which helps in tracking changes and managing versions.

If the QS-backup-and-restore-app approach is not working well, you can consider other solutions like SenseOps Code Management to better manage and track app changes.
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Re: Qlik Sense Apps / Source Control

marksouzacosta — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 19:22:47 GMT

For Qlik Cloud users, you can use Qlik-CLI unbuild and build commands:

app unbuild | Qlik Developer Portal

app build | Qlik Developer Portal

Regards,

Mark Costa