Subroutines cannot be nested too deep in .qvs files?

kevinpintokpa — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 23:27:55 GMT

I have been encountering this strange problem with QlikView QVS script files and wonder if anyone else has encountered it.

I have a subroutine defined:

SUB A

END SUB

The sub works perfectly when it is directly in the load script of a QVW file.

It also works when it is in a QVS file, QVS1, that is directly included in the load script of a QVW file.

But if I put in a deeper level, QVS2, then I get a script error when I call the subroutine. At this point, the call chain is like this:

QVW file load script > QVS1 > QVS2 > SUB A

The error is simply: Script Error: Call Sub A

For the moment, I have worked around this by placing the sub at level QVS1. The call chain looks like this:

QVW file load script > QVS1 > SUB A

This works just fine.

Any ideas?

Re: Subroutines cannot be nested too deep in .qvs files?

rwunderlich — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 00:48:08 GMT

Are you nesting $(include)? That is, the main qvw script has:

$(Include=qvs1.qvs);

and qvs1.qvs contains:

$(Include=qvs2.qvs);

That works ok for me.

Or do you have a sub that calls a sub?

-Rob