topic Re: Reusing elements from another app in QlikView

Reusing elements from another app

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

Hi,

I'm new to Qlik. I want to reuse elements (data and visualisation) from another app in Desktop.

1. How could that be done?

2. Is there a way to just merge two apps or copy all sheets, visualisation and data connection from one to another?

Thanks.

Re: Reusing elements from another app

swuehl — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 19:03:30 GMT

You can use the same data by using a binary LOAD statement to load the data model into another QVW.

(Or partially load the same data by using QVDs)

You can copy & paste any sheet objects from one desktop application to another, but you might need to adapt expressions / dimensions to the new model.

Re: Reusing elements from another app

santiago_respane — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 19:35:50 GMT

Hi,

have you tried with the -prj folder?

This way you can export all application components and use from another.

You can try as an example of how it works:

Create a QV app with a couple of objects and script lines
Save your app as MyApp and close
In the same directory where your app resides create a folder named MyApp-prj
Open MyApp.qvw and save into same location
You will notice that inside MyApp-prj folder now are a lot of xml files containing each object, the script, etc
Create a copy of your folder MyApp-prj named as MyNewApp-prj
Create an empty new qv app and save it in same directory with name MyNewApp.qvw
When asked to overwrite configuration select NO and after close MyNewApp.qvw
Open MyNewApp.qvw and voila! you have all your objects and script in your new app

You can edit script, individual objects, delete objects, change colors, fonts, etc between steps 6 and 7 and changes will be applied in your new app starting on your old one.

This is the simplest way, i recommend you to read the following articules:

Break apart Qlikview File

Updated Guide to QlikView and Source Control (TFS & Subversion)

Let me know if this helps.

Kind regards,

Re: Reusing elements from another app

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Sep 2016 15:19:49 GMT

Thank but I don't really know how to do this. All apps that I have are with .qvf extension and searching for .qvw gave no results.

Re: Reusing elements from another app

santiago_respane — Fri, 09 Sep 2016 15:29:03 GMT

Hi,

you are talking about QlikSense! I don't know if it will work but you can give it a try replacing .qvw with .qvf in the steps i mentioned.

Please let me know if it works.

Kind regards,

Re: Reusing elements from another app

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Sep 2016 15:38:34 GMT

If I knew what this means I wouldn't probably post such a question in "New to QlikView".

As an innocent user, I would expect that I can go to a data connection, or a table, and somehow make it "global", or "master" or whatever the terminology is. I thought that sharing data and visualisations across apps would be the most basic thing in such a tool. Anyway, if this is not the case, which is what you answer implies, could you please give me a bit more guidance? My situation is: I see in the Qlik Sense Desktop Hub two apps. My first objective is from one of the apps to be able to use all the data of the other app.

Re: Reusing elements from another app

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Sep 2016 15:42:23 GMT

I don't see folders with XML files and the like. Each app is only one QVF file, and that's all.