Comprehensive information about datasources used in published Apps

[Anonymous]

 

 

Hello!

I am going to start this by saying that i appreciate all help!

To start, our organization uses Qlik Sense Enterprise edition on its own server. I was dropped into project where we are tasked in figuring out 3 different things for 4 different apps currently in our stream. Organization does not have anyone else to do this and their enviroment is almost 10 years old. There is nobody who can use QMC properly and there is nobody left in organization to actually do Qlik dev work.

We need to understand used datasources, what exact data is being queried (what columns, what sheets etc) and what transformations are being done to data for each App and then document it. In perfect case, i could say that this App uses lets say SQL, CSV-files and API-data datasources and then give document on what exactly is being queried from these datasources. 

In App's there is mix of QVD-files and data connections, but there is also usage of LCGV containers and Extractors which are mystery for me at this point. 

How would you approach this task? Attached couple of pictures to showcase scripts in one of our Apps

[chriscammers · Accepted solution]

Your LCGV thing is a sub procedure that I would expect to be defined in the file that is listed in the $(Must_Include...) statement. Hopefully the procedure is well commented to explain what the parameters are and what the procedure does.

The first step I would take is to set up a qvd catalog application, it will help you trace what apps created which qvd's which will help you considerably with what you are trying to do.

[rwunderlich]

The LCGV, Containers and Extractors are parts of Qlik Deployment Framework (QDF).  You can download QDF documentation from the QDF releases page  https://github.com/QlikDeploymentFramework/Qlik-Deployment-Framework/releases

-Rob