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);
}
