topic Re: Relative Paths in QlikView

Relative Paths

danialier — Thu, 13 Feb 2014 11:35:18 GMT

Hello !

Which is the funcionallity of cliking "relative paths" or not when uploading a file into the script of QlikView ?

thks,dani

Re: Relative Paths

alexandros17 — Thu, 13 Feb 2014 11:38:45 GMT

With relative path you are not linked to the disk unit (E:\ ...)

Re: Relative Paths

sujeetsingh — Thu, 13 Feb 2014 11:40:58 GMT

relative path searches for the file just where you are having the qvw file saved

Re: Relative Paths

danialier — Thu, 13 Feb 2014 11:42:51 GMT

And which is the benefit of that ?

Re: Relative Paths

MK_QSL — Thu, 13 Feb 2014 11:48:17 GMT

Relative path

Relative path and absolute Path

Hope this help...

Re: Relative Paths

Thu, 13 Feb 2014 12:08:32 GMT

If you check Relative path then the file will not be dependent on the place you saved.

If you migrate qvw files to other location then it will not create a problem.

So very useful.

If you give relative path then it will take the path of the folder where ti is located for other files also if the files are linked to each other

Re: Relative Paths

fkeuroglian — Thu, 13 Feb 2014 12:29:44 GMT

Hi, using relative path you dont depend on the root folder at alla, if you change the document to another pc, the document will continue works ok.

if you do not use relative path you are obligated to have the same root path always, and obviously you have to change each time you change to another pc.

good luck!

Fernando

Re: Relative Paths

Siva_Sankar — Thu, 13 Feb 2014 12:51:49 GMT

Say for example you have all your working files at

D:\QlikView\Working folder, Qvds at D:\QlikView\Qvds.

Now if you want to add qvd to your application residing in folder working, you can do following way.

1. Absolute path i.e

Load * from d:\QlikView\Qvds\Abc.Qvd(Qvd);

2. Relative path

Load * from ..\Qvds\Abc.Qvd(Qvd);

Here in relative path you are saying. Pick my current application path and (..) means go one directory out (Meaning go Back to QlikView folder) then go to Qvds and get the Abc.qvd.

So the number of times (..) will depend on how deep you are into the folder structure.

Regards.

Siva