Can we take war file(Zip) as data source in Qlikview?

[nihhalmca]

Hi All,

Could you people share your knowledge

Can we take war file(Zip) as data source in Qlikview instead of QVD because war file also compressed file

Thanks in Advance

Nihhal.

[Gysbert_Wassenaar]

No. Qlikview cannot read zip files as data files. And qvd's are not compressed afaik.

[#3]

Hi,

No..QV Cant read war file(Zip)..

Only support below files

Regards-Bika

[nihhalmca]

Please Could you explain briefly.

[jonathandienst · Accepted solution]

Hi

As the other posters have said, QV cannot read ZIP or WAR files directly.

It is possible to trigger a batch file from your QV load script (using the EXECUTE function) to unzip the file. The tricky part is that you will need have the script wait until the file is unzipped as I dont think the execute command itself waits for the task to complete.

You could also schedule a task to unzip the file before the Qlikview reload starts. Exactly how you would do this depends on whether you are using server reloads or scheduled batch file reloads.

Hope that helps

Jonathan