Suggestions and alternatives for QlikView Application Version Control

[#1]

Hello There,

I am looking for you expert inputs to find out the best options for Qlikview Applications Version Control.

Can we use the Team Foundation Server for this purpose, coz we are already using it for some of out Visual Studio based development applications? Your comments and thoughts are welcome.

Kind Regards,

[#2]

Tortoise SVN is a good source control tool.

Its listed in 9 Essential QlikView Development Tools

[Anonymous]

We just implemented a decentralized version control system, Mercurial, for our QV development process. Started writing a few posts about that here: http://blogg.sigma.se/en/The-Business-Intelligence-blog/Jonas-Wiklander/Dates/2014/3/Qlikview-and-ve...

/jonas

[jerrysvensson]

TFS is integrated with QlikView so it should work fine.

[hopkinsc]

I agree with Ajay, Tortois SVN is really good and works great with QV.

there are a couple of issues..

Variables are lost (as these are not exported as part of the prj folder) you will need to make sure that variables are defined in the script.

There is also an issue where the qvw loses any field triggers (as these are seen as data, and data is stripped when checking into SVN)

Hope that helps

[roger_stone]

Those issues are common to all the version control systems because they're under the control of QlikView itself.

[paputzback]

We also use TFS.

[PlatformManager-Expert]

There are also 3rd party solutions that provide more benefits than just version control. Although you have to buy a license the upside is that the supplier keeps investing in new features which benefit your organization. In4BI is such a supplier and because they don't use the PRJ structure you wont have the disadvantages that open source systems have. Besides version control you also get Data Lineage, Version compare and other nice features that boost your Qlik development. For more info you can look at in4bi.com