topic How can we find the QVD Creater file path/source? in QlikView

How can we find the QVD Creater file path/source?

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:35:34 GMT

Hi,

Is there any way to know the QVD file source ( means from where it is got generated ) while seeing the only QVD file.

Best Regards,

Shubham

How can we find the QVD Creater file path/source?

ekech_infomotio — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:04:22 GMT

I think this isn't possible - at least 'out-of-the-box'.

But it would be easy to integrate some lines of code to the QVD-Creator-script which fill in the desired 'meta-information' into the QVDs as separate fields ( e.g. source-path, creation-time, creator-script, ...) or as a separate 'Meta-QVD'.

Greetings,

Edgar

How can we find the QVD Creater file path/source?

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:53:23 GMT

Hi Edgar,

Thanks for your reply. But sorry to say that I didn't get your second part of answer. Will that be helping us to know the path of origin of QVD creator.

Thanks & Regards,

Shubham

How can we find the QVD Creater file path/source?

ekech_infomotio — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:21:30 GMT

Hi Shubham,

for now, if you get your QVD from 'somewhere', it isn't possible to find out about its origin.

My proposal is only for the future creation of QVDs in a company.

In this scenario you would use QVD-Creators which add your required 'Metadata' automatically to every created QVD (or create an extra 'Meta-QVD' besides the 'normal' QVD).

If I had to build such a QVD-Creator, I would include fields for sourcedocument, sourcetype, sourcepath, name of creator-script, date of creation, QVD originally stored to path.

This also means, that your QVDs will be a bit bigger as you have your Meta-information per record.

Hope this helps.

Edgar

How can we find the QVD Creater file path/source?

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:44:52 GMT

Hi Edgar,

Thats great piece of Information.

Thanks

How can we find the QVD Creater file path/source?

ekech_infomotio — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:17:37 GMT

I have to correct myself - there is a way to get the QVD-Creator from a QVD-File, at least before the latest security update for QV11 or QV10SR4.

You can open a QVD with an editor (notepad++, notepad or any other program which can show XML).

The Header should look like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>

<CreatorDoc>C:\Users\EdgarXXXXX\Documents\opengeodb\opengeodb_generator.qvw</CreatorDoc>

...

also you will find all source-documents or souce databases which are in use by the QVD-Creator.

here is some more information:

http://community.qlik.com/thread/40308

Greetings,

Edgar