Automation of Document Layout Import / Version Control

[gsbeaton]

Hi Folks,

We are a team of 4+ QlikView developers, some of us working remotely and often on the same QlikView application. We use Subversion as our revision control solution and we only store the exported document layout (rather than the bloated .qvw binary). This process has so far served us well.

We now want to automate the process of rebuilding our QlikView applications on the server, this is both to simplify the build process and to lock down the live environment properly. Here's what the rebuild process should look like:

1. Senior developer tags a version of the application for release to live.
2. A remotely triggered process updates the XML doc layout in Live
3. QlikView runs and imports the XML document layout
4. Publisher is triggered and the application is rebuilt with the latest data and is distributed

We have a solution for steps 1,2 and 4 but what we can't figure out is how to have QlikView run and import a document layout automatically.

Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

George

[#2]

You can check this solution, which I've made for QV dashboards backup http://community.qlik.com/media/p/90769.aspx

[#3]

you can embed the QlikView ActiveX component in an application and use automation API to load the document from the xml and save it as a qvw file