topic Re: Version numbers for models in QlikView

Version numbers for models

Thu, 14 May 2015 09:01:25 GMT

We are currently using Tortoise SVN for source control, as well as the folder with prj which stores the objects etc for the models.

What I want to ask is what the options are that can be used to give a specific version number to a model itself, not something controlled as such by svn , but say we have an version number for the application from which we are drawing the info, say 10.2.3.4 -how could be implement something like this to our Qlikview models, so we can know a specific verion of a model works with the application of the same number.

Hope i am making it clear enough.

Re: Version numbers for models

petter — Thu, 14 May 2015 09:20:58 GMT

You will have to create and enforce your own version number standard. This can be accomplished by using variables and or tags or even have a data-island with a table specifically documenting the versions, revisions and comments. This could be implemented both in QVD-generators, QVW-data models (pure data models that have no regular UI) and Dashboards.

The benefit of having for instance the last version, revision and comment in a variable is that this is stored as a part of the XML-structure of the QVW-file. Hence it can be used as meta-data and be extracted/harvested without going into the application itself.