Can QlikView draw data from Visio?

[datanibbler]

Hi,

we have a new organisation chart - but it is only available in either

- Visio or

- pdf

=> Can QlikView read data from either of these two formats?

[Gysbert_Wassenaar]

Nope. You could export an image and use it as background image in Qlikview, but Qlikview cannot read the file formats themselves.

[Anonymous]

this is not easy and I have not tried it myself but new Visio 2013 format (Introduction to the Visio 2013 file format (.vsdx)) is an XML file which you can parse and load to QlikView.

QlikView can work with XML files but out of the box you cannot do advanced stuff with XML so you probably would need to write a parser either in VB, C# or i would personally use excellent PowerShell.

PDF would be tough - I had some good luck reading tables from PDF but I had to use powershell and free .net library. Reading the charts from pdf and tracking which box connected to where would be very tough.