New QlikView Mapping Extensions on QlikMarket

[Brian_Munz]

EDIT: These extensions are no longer maintained on QlikMarket since that is not an appropriate place for free and unsupported extensions.  I've modified the links below to point to the github repositories where I now keep them.  Also, since they're now hosted on github, feel free to make contributions to the code.

Hi everyone,

The demand for mapping in QlikView seems to be a hot topic these days, so I’ve put together two extensions that are now available on QlikMarket bearing the QlikView name.

The first one is an extension which uses SVG images to connect to the data and color and shade the regions in that image:

brianwmunz/svgReader-QV11 · GitHub

Similar to this map of US Counties:

There’s no geospatial connection here (long/lat points can’t be plotted, etc.), but it should prove useful for a lot of simple needs and uses for visualization of a geographical entity.  It comes prepackaged with 35 or so maps of countries, etc. and also offers the ability to load in your own custom SVGs for things like floor plans, seating charts, etc.

The second extension is a simple geospatial mapping extension similar to the Google Maps and various other extensions you might have seen in community:

brianwmunz/QuickMap-QV11 · GitHub

This extension simply takes geographic data (longitude/latitude points) from QlikView and draws it over a map.  It supports the drawing of dots, lines, or polygon shapes.  For example:

This doesn’t offer near the capabilities of a server based geospatial mapping solution like ESRI, GeoQlik, Idevio, etc. simply because it’s not server side, but it should be helpful for less heavy and complex mapping needs.

Anyway, I hear a lot about need for mapping so I thought I’d let everyone know.

[rbecher]

Yea, with IE 9 it seems to work in QlikView Desktop. But also some refreshing issues..

[Brian_Munz]

Yeah I have those refresh issues fixed, I just need to get the extension updated online.

In terms of IE10, there's really no workaround yet for getting this working locally.  Ajax in general is broken locally in IE10 unless you go in and change a whole lot of security settings that you shouldn't change.  Hopefully, in future updates IE will make this easier, but in my small amount of research so far, MS seems to think this is a "works as designed" type thing.

[rbecher]

Why not using File API FileReader() if the file is local?

[Brian_Munz]

hmmm true

[Julie_Main]

Yup, it doesn't work with IE 10 even in V11.2 SR2 .. I've managed to roll back to IE9 and all working again .. will give IE10 a wide berth at the moment!

[fosuzuki]

Hi Brian,

For me, the extension doesn't work in QV Desktop with WebView. It just doesn't render the image, without any error message.

I have a local QV Server, and it works fine when accessed via AJAX both in Chrome and in IE10.

I'm on Win7 x64; IE10; Chrome 27.0.1453.116 m; QV11.2 SR2.

Is this really a bug or am I missing something?

[Lee_Matthews]

Hi Brian

Great Work!

I have setup the SVG map extension in an app and am using it with Australian State data. I would like to resize the resulting SVG image. When I resize the extension window, it does not resize the map. I have looked through the properties and cant see an option to allow stretching the image. Is that possible or not?

Thanks for your help.

Lee

[Brian_Munz]

Yes this is a bug. I'll get the fixed one up in a few days.

Thanks.

[rbecher]

Hi Brian,

it seems to have a problem to load the SVG file if the QlikView Web Server on a different box. Any hint if or how we can configure this to get it work?

- Ralf

[rbecher]

If this is a cross domain issue, can we put the SVG somewhere on the web server (not the QVS)?