topic Re: Can QlikView draw data from Visio? in QlikView https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Can-QlikView-draw-data-from-Visio/m-p/741717#M264862 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>this is not easy and I have not tried it myself but new Visio 2013 format (<A href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/jj228622(v=office.15).aspx" title="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/jj228622(v=office.15).aspx">Introduction to the Visio 2013 file format (.vsdx)</A>) is an XML file which you can parse and load to QlikView. </P><P></P><P>QlikView can work with XML files but out of the box you cannot do advanced stuff with XML so you probably would need to write a parser either in VB, C# or i would personally use excellent PowerShell.</P><P></P><P>PDF would be tough - I had some good luck reading tables from PDF but I had to use powershell and free .net library. Reading the charts from pdf and tracking which box connected to where would be very tough.</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 28 Nov 2014 13:43:53 GMT Anonymous 2014-11-28T13:43:53Z Can QlikView draw data from Visio? https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Can-QlikView-draw-data-from-Visio/m-p/741715#M264860 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P></P><P>we have a new organisation chart - but it is only available in either</P><P>- Visio or</P><P>- pdf</P><P>=&gt; Can QlikView read data from either of these two formats?</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 28 Nov 2014 12:53:04 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Can-QlikView-draw-data-from-Visio/m-p/741715#M264860 datanibbler 2014-11-28T12:53:04Z Re: Can QlikView draw data from Visio? https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Can-QlikView-draw-data-from-Visio/m-p/741716#M264861 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Nope. You could export an image and use it as background image in Qlikview, but Qlikview cannot read the file formats themselves.</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 28 Nov 2014 13:34:05 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Can-QlikView-draw-data-from-Visio/m-p/741716#M264861 Gysbert_Wassenaar 2014-11-28T13:34:05Z Re: Can QlikView draw data from Visio? https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Can-QlikView-draw-data-from-Visio/m-p/741717#M264862 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>this is not easy and I have not tried it myself but new Visio 2013 format (<A href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/jj228622(v=office.15).aspx" title="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/jj228622(v=office.15).aspx">Introduction to the Visio 2013 file format (.vsdx)</A>) is an XML file which you can parse and load to QlikView. </P><P></P><P>QlikView can work with XML files but out of the box you cannot do advanced stuff with XML so you probably would need to write a parser either in VB, C# or i would personally use excellent PowerShell.</P><P></P><P>PDF would be tough - I had some good luck reading tables from PDF but I had to use powershell and free .net library. Reading the charts from pdf and tracking which box connected to where would be very tough.</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 28 Nov 2014 13:43:53 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Can-QlikView-draw-data-from-Visio/m-p/741717#M264862 Anonymous 2014-11-28T13:43:53Z