topic Re: Open folder with a action button in QlikView

Open folder with a action button

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 12:14:19 GMT

Hi all,

I would like to hava a button in QlikView that opens a windows folder to show the results after the script has run.

Is that possible?

Thank you fpr helping

Re: Open folder with a action button

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 12:25:57 GMT

I am sure that there is no qlikview action that can do this. You should try using a macro to achieve this.

Regards,
Aadil

Re: Open folder with a action button

Mon, 13 Jan 2014 12:38:46 GMT

I don't know if is that what are you looking for, but try something like this:

1. Create a button

2. Add an action to run a macro

3. Create a macro like the one below:

sub openFolder

Dim shell

Set shell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")

shell.Open "C:\myFolder"

end sub

I hope this is gonna help you

Tiago

Re: Open folder with a action button

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 12:56:50 GMT

Thank you for your answer!

Where do I create a makro?

Re: Open folder with a action button

Mon, 13 Jan 2014 13:05:09 GMT

On the Edit Module Button. And on the button action, just put the name of the sub that you want to execute. If you keep the code above, the name is openFolder.

Re: Open folder with a action button

Mon, 13 Jan 2014 13:35:46 GMT

Hi,

Is this action going to take place only from the local client or also from the server?

For the local client you can also use the launch action to achieve the same effect:

- under application fill in explorer.exe.

- under parameters fill in the folder you want to open, for example ='C:\QlikView'

For the server I don't know what the best solution would be.

Re: Open folder with a action button

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 13:39:28 GMT

Set an action (open URL) and specify the folder URL (no macro needed) see image.

Re: Open folder with a action button

Mon, 20 Jan 2014 13:30:23 GMT

Thanks Nils. perfect answer.

Can we use Relative paths here ?

Re: Open folder with a action button

Anonymous — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 11:36:41 GMT

Hi! have you managed to do it running on server side? I mean, open a folder either on server or on client side but via access point...

Thanks!

Re: Open folder with a action button

Anonymous — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 14:14:13 GMT

You might have to use the Plugin Client to get this to work. Will check on Server later.