topic How to create .qar files? in QlikView

How to create .qar files?

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 05:25:52 GMT

Have just searched about Extension Objects and found out that in a folder called Extensions which comes with complete installation of QV10 desktop, there are some pre-defined Extensions in .qar file format.

These .qar files when double-clicked, get self installed. To see the contents of .qar file, just open them with Winrar, we can see the Definition.xml, Icon.png etc files

I have tried to create My own basic Extension and could succeed to see it in WebView mode

But I have created a folder which contains the required xml,js,png files and simply copied it into already existing .qar file

I want to know how to create a .qar file directly..Should we use any software for that? like Winrar for .rar files??

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks,

Priya:)

Re: How to create .qar files?

kaushiknsolanki — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 05:39:17 GMT

Hi,

Here is a detailed information about .qar file.

http://jojitsoriano.wordpress.com/2010/10/21/installing-modifying-and-removing-qlikview-extensions-in-desktop-client/

http://jojitsoriano.wordpress.com/2010/10/18/contents-of-a-qlikview-extension-qar-file/

http://jojitsoriano.wordpress.com/2010/10/13/qlikview-extensions-a-new-feature-in-qlikview-10/

Regards,

Kaushik Solanki

Re: How to create .qar files?

sridhar240784 — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 05:40:10 GMT

Priya,

To create a .qar file. you place all your files in one folder and zip the file using winzip and once the file is zipped, chenage the .zip extension to .qar.

Hope this helps you.

-Sridhar

Re: How to create .qar files?

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 06:05:21 GMT

Hi Koushik,

I have learnt to create Extension Objects from jojit's blog only. My need is to know how to create a separate .qar file which is not mentioned anywhere

Thanks for posting the links, thay would be definitely helpful to people who are looking for Extension Objects stuff

Priya

How to create .qar files?

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 06:07:31 GMT

Hi Sridhar,

It didn't work out. Have u tried it?

Priya

Re: How to create .qar files?

sridhar240784 — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 06:17:22 GMT

Yes, i have tried but not now long time ago. It has worked for me.

It didn't work out. Have u tried it?

Priya

It didnt work in the sense? what kind of error you are getting?

Have a look at the below post for further details.

http://community.qlik.com/thread/28944

-Sridhar

Re: How to create .qar files?

kaushiknsolanki — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 06:21:27 GMT

Hi,

This is very helpful link have a look at this.

http://qliktips.blogspot.com/2011/01/beginners-guide-to-qlikview-extension.html

Regards,

Kaushik Solanki

Re: How to create .qar files?

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 06:49:29 GMT

what does this literally mean?"Change the .zip extension to .qar"

Priya

Re: How to create .qar files?

sridhar240784 — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 06:57:26 GMT

"Change the .zip extension to .qar" means.

Take for example, you have all the required files in a folder called MyFirstExt.

Now you, zip this folder using winzip. After zip this folder using winzip, You would get a new file with a extension .zip i.e. MyFirstExt.Zip

Once you get this MyFirstExt.Zip file, You select .zip fiel and press F2 key and change this .zip to .qar.

This should work.

Hope this will help you.

-Sridhar

Re: How to create .qar files?

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:08:24 GMT

Hi Sridhar

I tried the same..It did not work. I just clarified whether its just renaming or not

Thanks,

Priya

Re: How to create .qar files?

sridhar240784 — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:22:02 GMT

Not sure, why this not working for you. I dont have QV 10 installed in my sys now.

I`ll try to work on this tonite and let you the out come.

-Sridhar

How to create .qar files?

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:33:18 GMT

you are doing something wrong. are you sure you actually rename the extension and that your file is not named extension.qar.zip?

do you display file extension in the windows explorer?

Re: How to create .qar files?

Fri, 26 Aug 2011 06:52:18 GMT

You are right..I did a mistake in changing the file name..I changed the .zip extension to .qar.zip

This is because for all files, extensions are not seen in the file names.

I came to know that we have to go to

MyComputer --> Tools --> FolderOptions --> View --> uncheck Hide Extensions for known file types

This resulted in the filename of my zip file as filename.zip and now can just rename it as filename.qar

My .qar file is ready

Thank you for everything

Priya

Re: How to create .qar files?

stanislav_k — Fri, 06 Oct 2017 16:26:24 GMT

Hello,

Now it's dosn't work