topic Re: Relative Path in QlikView

Relative Path

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

Hi everyone,

how relative path will work exactly

i have only one drive in my laptop so it is taking only that. if i have multiple drives then how relative path will work.

and

if i have any file in desktop how the relative path would be????

Thanks in Advance.

HimaBindu Chadalawada.

Re: Relative Path

Tue, 14 Feb 2017 07:35:07 GMT

Hi Bindhu,

For example u have file in below folder

C:\Qlikview\sales.qvd

u have loaded this qvd into qlikview and created a qvw.

same qvw u have opened in another machine and u trying reload the qvw there ,but in another machine u don't have vd in Cdrive

u have it in D Drive

D:\Qlikview\sales.qvd

while loading the qvd into qlikview if u check the option of relative path u will get like this

..\Qlikview\Sales.qvd

..\ is Root directory (It will look back one step back)

Re: Relative Path

sdmech81 — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 07:42:15 GMT

HI,

Check here,it already discussed..

Relative path and absolute Path | Qlik Community

Relative path and absolute Path

Sachin

Re: Relative Path

himabinduch — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 08:19:31 GMT

Hi Manoj,

Thanks for the reply

i have two excel sheets in the same folder as below

C:\test\New folder\Data\test.xls

😧\test\New folder\Data\test.xls

if i use relative path as ..\..\Data\test.xls

then which excel sheet will pickup???

Re: Relative Path

himabinduch — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 08:19:46 GMT

Hi,

Thanks for the reply

i have two excel sheets in the same folder as below

C:\test\New folder\Data\test.xls

😧\test\New folder\Data\test.xls

if i use relative path as ..\..\Data\test.xls

then which excel sheet will pickup???

Re: Relative Path

surendraj — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 09:02:16 GMT

It will pick the

C:\test\New folder\Data\test.xls

Because

.. means it will go to C:\drive automatically.

Re: Relative Path

vardhancse — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 10:01:26 GMT

It will go to root folder.

Or else just try to change the file name and reload the dashboard using relative path.

Relative path was not for local system paths:

In server we have DEV/QA/Prod

So when we are moving dashboards from one server to another, relative paths will be very much helpful

Re: Relative Path

vardhancse — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 10:03:14 GMT

@manoj Kimar given the example just to make you understand the functionality of relative path.

Re: Relative Path

vardhancse — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 10:16:11 GMT

Hi Hima Bindu,

hope your doubt was now clarified.

can close the thread so that it might be helpful to others

Re: Relative Path

Tue, 14 Feb 2017 15:22:27 GMT

Hi Hima Bindhu,

I have tested ur scenario,

it will load the files from both Directories...