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Git with Qlikview

jvitantonio — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 17:18:15 GMT

Hi all,

I finally decided to start my own blog on how we can integrate Git with Qlikview, Step by Step.

I will be updating the blog soon with my personal details. Feel free to make comments and share your thoughts.

Site: BI Experience | A place to share our Business Intelligence experiences

Thanks,

Re: Git with Qlikview

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 18:14:13 GMT

Dear Q L

I do regularly read QlikView Blogs and have added your one to my Web Browser favourites.

Best Regards, Bill

Re: Git with Qlikview

jvitantonio — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 09:21:56 GMT

Thank you Bill. I hope you find it useful and you are welcome to comment and discuss your ideas.

Re: Git with Qlikview

Anonymous — Mon, 05 May 2014 13:25:36 GMT

Hi, nice post. Have written a little about using Qlikview with Mercurial, another distributed version control system which means it gives rise to about the same issues to work around. Linked to your post as a Git example... check it out here: Qlikview and version control, part 1 - Sigma Blogg

Re: Git with Qlikview

Mon, 07 Dec 2015 21:31:44 GMT

Is there really no way to include comments on the releases?

Re: Git with Qlikview

jvitantonio — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 09:18:25 GMT

Hi albert, could you plese elaborate you question? It'd be great to have a little bit of background.

Juan

Re: Git with Qlikview

jerrysvensson — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 11:20:31 GMT

Git tags?

We tag all files on every release.

Re: Git with Qlikview

Tue, 08 Dec 2015 14:32:02 GMT

Surely.

I am new to Git & version control in general, so please bear with me...

Our BI team has grown and we now have several developers working on one QVW. As you could imagine, development is extremely tricky at the moment with so many developers trying to work on one main dashboard/QVW. We would like implement version control in QlikView so we can better manage releases and troubleshoot issues properly.

From what I've read in the whitepapers, it seems like svn is the preferred method of version control. Since we use Git in other development processes in our team, I would like to stay within that environment.

Juan, I read through your bog post on integrating Git and I did not see anywhere to enter release notes/comments. I would like to track changes with each commit so other members on the development team knows what has changed in our QVW. Is there anyway we can do this with TortoiseGit?

Also, what are your thoughts on uploading the binary qvw to Git if we reduce the data? I'm honestly very worried about the stability of the prj/xml break down.

Albert

Re: Git with Qlikview

jerrysvensson — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 15:12:31 GMT

We are using GIT in a multiuser Environment and one of the problems with GIT is that you cannot know if someone is working on an application unless you ask.

Merging changes is also not possible.

The stability of the prj is very good. No problem after two years.

You add comments when commiting: git commit -m"Your comment here".

It is also possible to view changes between versions.

Re: Git with Qlikview

Tue, 08 Dec 2015 15:22:50 GMT

Do you bother to use Qlik's SVN/version control at all or do you exclusively use manage version control outside the application?

Re: Git with Qlikview

jvitantonio — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 17:14:02 GMT

Hi Albert, I'm not sure about the comments/notes and I don't have access to Git at the moment. Perhaps someone else can help you.

Regarding the .qvw, yes. I'd defenitly back it up. You don't have to use Git if you don't want to. any backup storage would do. If yuo use Git, make sure you reduce the file by deleting all data.

Juan

Re: Git with Qlikview

Tue, 08 Dec 2015 17:17:36 GMT

This may be a separate issue, but my concerns with deleting all data is that in the past, we have noticed settings getting wiped from the file when doing so. For example, the setting "Always one selected" will be unselected when we reduce the data too much.

In either case, I am going to experiment with Git and try to find the best solution.

Re: Git with Qlikview

jerrysvensson — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 07:00:47 GMT

We are hopefully in process switching to TFS. Then we will be using the integration in QlikView. Our tests have shown it works very well.

When working with QlikView, I would recommend TFS Before GIT any day.

Always one selected cannot be used if you recreate your qvw files from prj, since you wipe all data.

All variables has to be defined in the script.

Before 11.2 SR5 triggers were also lost.

Re: Git with Qlikview

Wed, 09 Dec 2015 14:01:36 GMT

Ah, well that could be a deal breaker for us... is there a way to setup that chart object setting in the script?

What else gets deprecated when recreating from prj?

Re: Git with Qlikview

jerrysvensson — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 08:27:30 GMT

A workaround is to not recreate the qvw files from prj. Then you can use always one selected.

We haven't found any other things that gets deprecated.

Re: Git with Qlikview

kashyapdhar — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 04:05:29 GMT

Hi JV,

Hope you are doing fine. The link provided asks for a wordpress account. I dont have one, is it mandatory to have a wordpress account to read through the content. Can it be made available any other way?

Awaiting your feedback.

Cheers

Re: Git with Qlikview

devir — Mon, 14 Jun 2021 23:07:16 GMT

Can you please give me access to view your blog. I'm new to the BI team and trying to have a process to check-in and check out the code using the git repository. Please any help will be appreciated.

Re: Git with Qlikview

devir — Mon, 14 Jun 2021 23:11:24 GMT

Please can you give me access to view your blog. I tried multiple times but it's a private site and requires your approval to view the blog.

Re: Git with Qlikview

pk — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 13:21:24 GMT

Can you please share the steps for how to use Git for Qlikview version control

Thanks in advance!