topic Timestamp in Logfile Name in QlikView

Timestamp in Logfile Name

Fri, 14 Jan 2011 18:22:03 GMT

Hi everyBody,

Could someone tell me what I'm supposed to do to make 'timestamps in logfile names' while this fonctionality doesn't exist in QV 8.5?

Many thanks,

Kai ZHONG

Timestamp in Logfile Name

hector — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 18:39:15 GMT

Hi,

Go to Document Properties/General and check

Generate Logfile
Timestamp in logfile name.

Then in every reloading, instead of overwriting the file DocumentName.qvw.log, it's going to create one with the datetime in it's name.

Rgds

Timestamp in Logfile Name

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 09:05:29 GMT

Hi Héctor,

That's very kind of you. However, in QV 8.5, the option that you mentionned dosn't exist...

Good day.

Kai

Timestamp in Logfile Name

sparur — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 09:29:59 GMT

Hello, Kai.

I have one decision for you 🙂

If you can use publisher, you can setup job, which after reload qvw will run external program task and run CMD-file

You can use command file, which will be copy/rename your log file into new file with correct name.

I use such approach.

small example from my CMD-file:

@echo off
set now=%TIME:~0,-3%
set now=%now::=%
set now=%now: =0%
set now=%DATE%_%now%
@echo on

rem Copy Log files into new file

copy "c:\TestLogRename\testLogRename.qvw.log" /Y "C:\TestLogRename\testLogRename_%now%.qvw.log"

after this I get log file with name: testLogRename_17.01.2011_112129.qvw.log

I hope that this info will be useful for you.