topic Re: How to read meta data from a qlikview file? in QlikView https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/How-to-read-meta-data-from-a-qlikview-file/m-p/1140469#M373784 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Some information can be extracted by just using the Table file wizard, setting the file type to xml and pointing to a QVW file. That's the meta data. Eveything else is the real model stuff.</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 02 Sep 2016 22:01:40 GMT Peter_Cammaert 2016-09-02T22:01:40Z How to read meta data from a qlikview file? https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/How-to-read-meta-data-from-a-qlikview-file/m-p/1140467#M373782 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><SPAN style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Hi,</SPAN></P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><BR /></SPAN></P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 13.3333px;">I am looking for how to read the meta data information from a Qlikview file itself. Example, the Qlikview governnace dashboard reads the information (such as Label of an expression, expression, comment given to a field etc) from a qlikview file. How that happens? </SPAN></P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><BR /></SPAN></P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 13.3333px;">I am using Qlikview personal edition and storing qlikview file locally. Can i extract the meta data such as (Label, Comment of a table, field,expression etc) from the qlikview file. How to extract that information?<BR /></SPAN></P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><BR /></SPAN></P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Thanks<BR /></SPAN></P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 02 Sep 2016 16:36:32 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/How-to-read-meta-data-from-a-qlikview-file/m-p/1140467#M373782 Anonymous 2016-09-02T16:36:32Z Re: How to read meta data from a qlikview file? https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/How-to-read-meta-data-from-a-qlikview-file/m-p/1140468#M373783 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Try Rob Wunderlich's excellent Document Analyzer: <A href="http://qlikviewcookbook.com/recipes/download-category/tools/" title="http://qlikviewcookbook.com/recipes/download-category/tools/">Search Recipes | Qlikview Cookbook</A></P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 02 Sep 2016 18:14:17 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/How-to-read-meta-data-from-a-qlikview-file/m-p/1140468#M373783 m_woolf 2016-09-02T18:14:17Z Re: How to read meta data from a qlikview file? https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/How-to-read-meta-data-from-a-qlikview-file/m-p/1140469#M373784 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Some information can be extracted by just using the Table file wizard, setting the file type to xml and pointing to a QVW file. That's the meta data. Eveything else is the real model stuff.</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 02 Sep 2016 22:01:40 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/How-to-read-meta-data-from-a-qlikview-file/m-p/1140469#M373784 Peter_Cammaert 2016-09-02T22:01:40Z Re: How to read meta data from a qlikview file? https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/How-to-read-meta-data-from-a-qlikview-file/m-p/1140470#M373785 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Peter,</P><P></P><P>This is what exactly i am looking for. I got the necessary information. Thank you so much for your help</P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 03 Sep 2016 02:42:42 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/How-to-read-meta-data-from-a-qlikview-file/m-p/1140470#M373785 Anonymous 2016-09-03T02:42:42Z