topic Automating File Reduce All in QlikView https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Automating-File-Reduce-All/m-p/1049047#M352433 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi</P><P></P><P>Apologies if this has been answered elsewhere .......</P><P></P><P>We use GIT for our version control. It is good practice to do a file reduction to eliminate data - to both save space and to prevent cross environment contamination. Macro code has been written to maintain "Always one selected value" listbox properties.</P><P></P><P>Rather than relying on developers to do this manually has anyone come up with a clever way to automate this ? I am particularly interested in GIT Tortoise pre-commit hooks that can catch QVW files over a certain size.</P><P></P><P>I did experiment with scripting QV.EXE / R / NODATA but I wasn't able to find a way to save the file. The batch script just exited with no changes saved.</P><P></P><P>NB Using XML imports/exports is not an option - we want to keep things simple and just use QVW files in GIT.</P><P></P><P>Thanks</P><P>Andrew.</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 29 Feb 2016 08:58:17 GMT AndrewMcIlwrick 2016-02-29T08:58:17Z Automating File Reduce All https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Automating-File-Reduce-All/m-p/1049047#M352433 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi</P><P></P><P>Apologies if this has been answered elsewhere .......</P><P></P><P>We use GIT for our version control. It is good practice to do a file reduction to eliminate data - to both save space and to prevent cross environment contamination. Macro code has been written to maintain "Always one selected value" listbox properties.</P><P></P><P>Rather than relying on developers to do this manually has anyone come up with a clever way to automate this ? I am particularly interested in GIT Tortoise pre-commit hooks that can catch QVW files over a certain size.</P><P></P><P>I did experiment with scripting QV.EXE / R / NODATA but I wasn't able to find a way to save the file. The batch script just exited with no changes saved.</P><P></P><P>NB Using XML imports/exports is not an option - we want to keep things simple and just use QVW files in GIT.</P><P></P><P>Thanks</P><P>Andrew.</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 29 Feb 2016 08:58:17 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Automating-File-Reduce-All/m-p/1049047#M352433 AndrewMcIlwrick 2016-02-29T08:58:17Z