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Updating Data From Excel Spreadsheet

chris_soto — Thu, 23 Dec 2021 13:42:52 GMT

Hello,

I'm creating an app to track our daily production and we are planning on having someone input the daily production goal each morning. I was hoping to have them enter in a spreadsheet, save the spreadsheet, then it updates in Qlik during the normal update schedule for this app. I've seen a lot of articles about attaching a file, but that seems like it's static data. Is there a way to create a connection to a spreadsheet like this? Or is there another solution?

Re: Updating Data From Excel Spreadsheet

dplr-rn — Mon, 22 Jul 2019 16:30:16 GMT

No Completely clear on your requirement but from what i understood it seems like you need to create a connection to a folder (which would be a network drive or s3 or similar) and put the excel file there.

the user would update the excel on that shared location

Re: Updating Data From Excel Spreadsheet

chris_soto — Mon, 22 Jul 2019 16:34:57 GMT

Correct, the excel file will be in a shared network folder for the user to update each morning and that's what I need to connect to.

Re: Updating Data From Excel Spreadsheet

dplr-rn — Mon, 22 Jul 2019 16:39:09 GMT

thats quite straightforward

Create Connection --> All Files --> Enter the network path

And give appropriate name

Re: Updating Data From Excel Spreadsheet

chris_soto — Mon, 22 Jul 2019 19:52:09 GMT

This worked, thank you for your help.

Re: Updating Data From Excel Spreadsheet

qliky88 — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 09:43:08 GMT

hi @dplr-rn , using this method will Qlik Sense automatically update once changes have been saved in the network folder, or will someone have to attach and load the updated file to Qlik?

Thanks 🙂

Re: Updating Data From Excel Spreadsheet

dplr-rn — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 11:33:36 GMT

Do you mean changes to the file? If so qliksense will pick it next time it reloads.

If you mean changes to folder path. You will need to update the connection

Re: Updating Data From Excel Spreadsheet

Chris_1978 — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 13:24:12 GMT

I have uploaded a excel file via the QLIKsense data editor in the HUB.

Who could I update the data in Qlik when the data is updated in the original excel file?

I've tried "Load data"

Thanks in advance

Chris