topic Re: +Create Qvd from existing qvw file in QlikView

+Create Qvd from existing qvw file

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:19:17 GMT

Hi . I have an old qvw file which imported data from databases that have been removed now. Now I have to make updates on the qvw file but the reload will not work now since the database is gone. I was wondering if there's a way of storing data from the existing qvw into a qvd file so that I can reload it from there again after making changes to the qvw file.

Cheers,

Varun

Re: +Create Qvd from existing qvw file

Anonymous — Thu, 07 May 2015 01:26:02 GMT

you can create table box in front end for each and every table and export to excel . here you go, You will have the data you want ..

Re: +Create Qvd from existing qvw file

Thu, 07 May 2015 02:14:15 GMT

Thanks Praveena. That is possible to do but there are a lot of tables with multiple columns in each so it would be a time consuming process to add all the columns as expressions. Thanks for the suggestion though.

Re: +Create Qvd from existing qvw file

jagan — Thu, 07 May 2015 03:26:21 GMT

Hi,

Try like this

Create a new Qlikview file and do Binary load the old file and put below script to generate the QVDs for the existing tables in the datamodel

BINARY FileName.qvw;

FOR vCount = 0 to NoOfTables()-1

LET vTableName = TableName($(vCount));

STORE $(vTableName) INTO $(vTableName).qvd (qvd);

NEXT vCount

The above script will create the qvds for each table in the datamodel.

You can also check this link below

Storing all tables in Qlikview file to QVD

Hope this helps you.

Regards,

Jagan.

Re: +Create Qvd from existing qvw file

Anonymous — Thu, 07 May 2015 03:42:11 GMT

Hi,

The same issue i am also facing i am trying to load by using binary but the QVW which i have is disabled for the binary load is there any solution for extracting data from it.

jagan‌

Regards

Sagar

Re: +Create Qvd from existing qvw file

Thu, 07 May 2015 03:49:44 GMT

Jagan,

Thanks man. Learned new stuff today.

It really works.

Best Regards,

Susvith

Re: +Create Qvd from existing qvw file

jagan — Thu, 07 May 2015 03:52:49 GMT

Hi,

Open the old QVW document and follow this to remove Binary Load option

Document Properties -> Opening -> Uncheck Prohibit Binary Load option

Hope this helps you.

Regards,

Jagan.

Re: +Create Qvd from existing qvw file

Anonymous — Thu, 07 May 2015 06:01:37 GMT

Thank you...

Re: +Create Qvd from existing qvw file

ashfaq_haseeb — Thu, 07 May 2015 10:49:18 GMT

Hi,

Check this as well.

https://community.qlik.com/docs/DOC-6991

Regards

ASHFAQ

Re: +Create Qvd from existing qvw file

Bill_Britt — Thu, 07 May 2015 12:19:28 GMT

Hi,

This is what I use.

Bill

Re: +Create Qvd from existing qvw file

Mon, 11 May 2015 05:12:35 GMT

Thanks Jagan. This worked quite well !

Re: +Create Qvd from existing qvw file

Mon, 11 May 2015 05:13:09 GMT

Thanks Bill !