Help with QV Function Survey

[rwunderlich]

I was recently working with a customer developing training curriculum and the question was asked "what expression functions do most developers use". I thought it was a question worth getting a specific answer to. So I'm creating a community project to gather data on what QV functions and features people use.

Please help out by running the attached QVW against your installation's QVWs. The scanner will gather anonymous information and produce a QVD that should be emailed to me per the instructions in the file.

- The scanner runs fast -- about 60 QVWs per minute or better.

- The survey QVD contains only counts of function usage -- such as how many time sum() is used.

- No private information is included in the survey QVD that you return to me. There are no qvw names, no userids, no expressions no fieldnames or data.

- I will make the collected data freely available to the community for analysis.

- I prefer that you run against your production or QA, just to eliminate the extra copies and backups that appear in a dev environment. If you can't scan production, please go for the cleanest directories possible.

Why should you take the time to help me on this?

1. You may gain some insights from the data.

2. I help you out with free tools like Document Analyzer, QVPR Analysis and the QlikViewCookbook. Time to return the favor.

Thanks in advance,

-Rob

Updated scanner to scan contents of variables for Function names.

Updated scanner to include expressions in text objects.

[Anonymous]

Google translate returns "dashboard".  But there is no such an object (?)

[maxgro]

dashboard = set of objects, usually in the first page with few indicators and charts , just to get a quick overview of the document, more here DAR methodology

[rwunderlich]

Thanks to both of you. I was getting the Dashboard idea from google translate. However, this is showing up an Object Type as reported by QV, not a title. It could be an extension object. I've asked the submitter.

-Rob

[rwunderlich]

Thanks to everyone who has submitted so far! Some of you who submitted in the first few days may be receiving an email from me asking if you are willing to run an updated scanner. The initial scanner only looked at chart expressions. The update scanner searches Variables and Text Box expressions as well.

If you have time to rerun the scanner I'll replace your original submission. If you don't have time, I can still use your original submission.

I'm still looking for more sites to submit their data. Read more and download the scanner from the first post in this thread.

Who has submitted so far?

[jchoucq]

Dear Rob,

how can i send you my qvd ?

Best regards.

Johann

[Anonymous]

Rob is busy right now, i guess.  The answer to you question is in Rob's application on the front end

[jchoucq]

thanks Michael,

i should have read

[rwunderlich]

Johann,

I received your contribution, thank you! Michael was correct that I was busy at the Qonnections conference.

I'm still crunching the data from the submissions. Interesting stuff. To anyone who hasn't contributed, there is still time! See the first post in this thread for instructions.

-Rob

[rwunderlich]

The analysis is ready. You can download the survey results here:

http://qlikviewcookbook.com/download/qv-function-survey-analysis/

I will update as more results are received.

Please let me know if you find any insights or surprises in the data.

-Rob

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Edit: Updated to V2 to correct error in weighted rankings.

[rwunderlich]

Blog post introducing the analysis as well.

http://qlikviewcookbook.com/2015/05/function-survey-results/

-Rob