Add an Qliksense app to Work category

[sujit_nath]

I have a qvf qpp thats on a different location that qliksense directory.

I want that app to show when I open my Qliksense local application.

How do I do that? I see only one category Work with no apps inside that.

[Vegar]

In order to get your app to show up in Qlik Sense desktop application overview your app needs to be stored in the app folder of Qlik sense, typically as t this location : C:/User/<userid>/qlik/sense/app

[ArnadoSandoval]

@sujit_nath 

Are you working with QS Desktop?

[sujit_nath]

yes.. @ArnadoSandoval 

and @Vegar yes.. that option I know.. but isn't it a possibility to store the qvf at a different location and somehow show at home?

[tresesco]

With qlik sense, your app has to be at specific folder location to make it available at home.

[ArnadoSandoval · Accepted solution]

Hi @sujit_nath @Vegar  @sujit_nath @tresesco 

Yes, you can, by creating a symbolic link at your Qlik's home directory with the Qlik Application file (target) anywhere in your workstation environment (Note, I did not try with a network file, as I cant emulate that)

You need to read this article The Complete Guide to Creating Symbolic Links (aka Symlinks) on Windows ; Symbolic Links are part of the Windows OS for many versions thus far, they were introduced by UNIX decades ago, and obviously available in Linux distributions.

The syntax is simple:

mklink Link Target

 Comments:

• You issue this command from a Windows Command session; It will be better is you open this session as Administrator.
• Navigate to the Qlik Home directory, the one defined by your Qlik's settings.ini file (you already wrote you know that)
• Once you are in the Qlik's home directory you type the mklink command, below is my first test, creating a symbolic link to a Qlik application located in the same drive as Qlik's home directory

mklink Z_LocalDrive.qvf "E:\Temp\Z_SoftLink Same Drive.qvf"

•  Here, Z_LocalDrive.qvf is the name of the symbolic link, I finished it with QVF because Qlik Desktop shows all the files ending with QVF as applications; this file is actually a 'soft placeholder' to the real Qlik Application, which is located at "E:\Temp\Z_SoftLink Same Drive.qvf"; I enclosed its name in double-quotes because of the spaces; Qlik Desktop shows the application as originally created, but if you check its details, it points to the symbolic link file, which is not a problem, I modified the application and Qlik properly saved the changes to the real file: "E:\Temp\Z_SoftLink Same Drive.qvf".
• I did a similar test to a file located on a different drive (my workstation has extra driver), the command explanation is similar to the one above, this time the real Qlik Application is located on my C: Drive.

mklink Z_Diff_Drive.qvf "C:\Temp\Z_SoftLink Diff Drives.qvf"

 Security:

• I did my tests in my workstation, accessing Qlik Applications located in my workstation; if your scenario features the Qlik Application on a network drive, you must have the appropriated permissions to that drive (read and write) and perhaps, you may need to use some of the mklink switches.
• As this is for sure the first time you will be using mklink be careful linking directories, as you may accidentally delete data in them if you are not careful.

I hope this helps!

[ArnadoSandoval]

@sujit_nath 

I forgot to add, this is the output of the mklink command at the DOS session:

[tresesco]

@ArnadoSandoval , Thanks for sharing, it does work. 🤗 And it is helpful for many other ways being a windows solution. 

[ArnadoSandoval]

Hi @tresesco  It is an Unix command introduced in 1978, Symbolic_link very helpful in some scenarios and available in most Operating Systems.