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what is relative path?

ksk278074 — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 16:16:04 GMT

Hi Team,

I am new to Qlikview , so you can explain about this concept.

Thanking you Team,

Re: what is relative path?

vishsaggi — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 13:52:16 GMT

Read here:

Relative Path | Qlik Community

Re: what is relative path?

pintucs20 — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 13:06:52 GMT

Hi Siva,

go through Abhishek Agarwal video on YouTube, its very helpful for learner .

Re: what is relative path?

greend21 — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 13:09:50 GMT

Rather than saying go to this exact folder on my computer, the relative path would be based on your current folder. For example if a server has the same setup as your physical computer, you could say go back out of this folder and go into the folder named x instead of mapping the entire path to folder x. This is very useful for move ups onto a server that will follow the same folder structure.

Re: what is relative path?

BalaBhaskar_Qlik — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 15:34:38 GMT

Relative path means, need to define the path based on the current path, for example if your Qlikview file and Source (Ex: SalesData.txt) file are in the same path(C:\Qlikview\Data\) then you can use

.\SalesData.txt

No need to give remaining path.

Suppose if you want to access a file in Qlikview folder then you need to use ..\, mean that go back one folder level back.

..\FileinQlikviewFolder.txt;

There is one more path, i.e, Absolute Path, means, you need to give the entire path of the file,

For example: C:\Qlikview\Data\SalesData.txt.

In all environments it'll (Path creation) be similar.