Qlikview API Export Layout and Bookmarks Example

[Anonymous]

I ran into a situation the other day where I needed to export the layouts and bookmarks for all of my QVW files. Since I have 100+ I thought it would be best to create an application in VS 2015 C# to do it for me. After searching did find some discussions on it, but I thought I would like to share my solution.

The bulk of what I'm doing is below, I've attached my source for reference. Feel free to take a look.

        private void bgwExportQVWs_DoWork(object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e)
        {
            //start the Qlikview client.
            QlikView.Application QVapp = new QlikView.Application();


            //get the qvw files in the folder
            DirectoryInfo di = new DirectoryInfo(txtFilePath.Text);
            FileInfo[] fi = di.GetFiles(@"*.qvw");


            int iCount = 1; //this is for the progress bar.
            foreach (FileInfo f in fi)
            {
                //I did an override the backgroundworker to add a status property that I could pass the filename to.
                bgwExportQVWs.sStatus = f.FullName;
                bgwExportQVWs.ReportProgress(iCount);
                //create a directory to put the exports into.
                DirectoryInfo dd = System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory(f.Directory + "\\" + f.Name.Replace(f.Extension, ""));


                try
                {
                    //open the document
                    QlikView.Document doc = (QlikView.Document)QVapp.OpenDoc(f.FullName);
                    //the app was running too fast and the document would sometimes not open correctly.
                    System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(1000); 
                   //This is where the layout and bookmarks are extracted.
                    doc.ExportLayoutFile(dd.FullName + "\\Layout.xml");
                    doc.ExportBookmarks(dd.FullName + "\\BM.xml");
                    doc.ExportUserBookmarks(dd.FullName + "\\UBM.xml");
                    System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(1000);
                }catch(Exception ex)
                {
                    //document didn't open correctly? or some other error we don't care about. Go onto the next document.
                }



                try
                {
                    QVapp.ActiveDocument().CloseDoc();
                }catch(Exception ex)
                {
                    //document already closed or not opened go onto the next one.
                }
                iCount++;
            }


            QVapp.Quit(0);
        }