Qlik Sense Test/Prod and how to handle the shared folder

[andy]

Hi,

I've set up my first Qlik Sense environment with QDF.

Since I'm using shared persistance I've put the QDF folder structure into that shared folder right beside the built-in Apps-folder.

To support a test and prod flow I did it this way:

1. First I created one folder named Test and another named Prod and put two complete QDF-folder structures in there with prefixes calles like Sales_Test and Sales_Prod.

2. Then I created folder-connections on the Qlik Sense server for each container in each QDF-structure for example

Sales_Test pointing to \\QLikShare\Test\4.Sales

and

Sales_Prod pointing to \\QLikShare\Prod\4.Sales

3. Then I implemented a way to automatically update a vEnvironment-variable depending on if the app is published to prod or test according to this post Multi-tier deployment in a single environment - let apps automatically know which datasources to use...

4. It is only the config-files and the qvd-files that are handled by the QDF since the applications in Qlik sense are restored into the apps-folder with a cryptic name.

Everything works nicely but then when I put some geo-files into the shared folder I realized that the Shared folder in QDF is hard-coded into the 1.init.qvs script like this:

SET vL.QDF.LinkShared_Folders = 'Shared';

Which means that the shared folder cannot have a prefix like Shared_Test or Shared_Prod.

For now I make use of the AltPath-option and have only one single shared folder common to both test and prod.

Anyone else who have thought of how to config the shared folder in a test/prod usage of QDF for Qlik sense?

[andy]

Hi Magnus,

I downloaded the 4.GenericContainerLoader.qvs from github and created a test-app that has its homecontainer-prefix set to Extract_Test which correpsponds to a folder-connection named Container_Extract_Tets and did a call LCGV to set up variables to a folder-connection called Container_Production_Test that I have in my Sense server, in QDF the prefix is Production_Test.

This is what it looks like then.

No variables towards Container_Production_Test were created as you can see in the screenshot below

I then changed that single line and placed it after the Trace and the output looks like this:

And the variables get created.

Hope this helps.

Regards

Andreas