Comments on: Write To CSV With QlikView STORE

By: Steve Dark

Steve Dark — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 17:09:57 +0000

In reply to KLRice.

Hi,
Absolutely! Put the timestamp into a variable and then use that in the store statement:

let vTS = Date(now(), ‘MMDDYYY_hhmmss’);
STORE MyTable INTO [..\Ouptut\MyCSVFile_$(vTS).csv] (txt);

Note that I have omitted the colons, as I think that might cause a problem in a filename. Also, you should be aware that if you are writing to a file in Sense you need to refer to a library, like this:

STORE MyTable INTO [lib://DataFiles/MyCSVFile_$(vTS).csv] (txt);

Hope that works out for you.

By: KLRice

KLRice — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 16:19:45 +0000

Is there a way to add a timestep to the file name: Example: STORE MyTable INTO ..\Ouptut\MyCSVFile_mmddyyy_hh:mm:ss.csv (txt);

By: Steve Dark

Steve Dark — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 09:18:05 +0000

In reply to Emanuel. Hi, sadly there are a number of things which can not be changed about the file that is being written, regardless of the parameters set in the brackets. If you are not able to change your destination system for the CSV you may need to trigger another process to transform the file after it has been created.

By: Emanuel

Emanuel — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 00:51:59 +0000

I have a question about command Store into textfile.txt (txt, delimiter is ‘,’)

When we open the textfile.txt (using notepad) created from the Store command it always has a line break at the end i.e: there is a blank row at the end, and this means a problem for our purpose:

Doeas anyone know how to avoid this happens?

By: Steve Dark

Steve Dark — Fri, 21 Aug 2020 20:45:32 +0000

In reply to Bill Lay. Thanks Bill. You can tweak quoting and encoding in ther parameters also. Recently I have been writing to HTML and sending in the body of emails with Qlik Web Connectors for dynamic data driven alerts. This works well.

By: Bill Lay

Bill Lay — Fri, 21 Aug 2020 17:35:16 +0000

Great post Steve! I did not know the bit about delimiters. And the HTML part is genius.
thanks, Bill

By: Steve Dark

Steve Dark — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 20:41:12 +0000

In reply to Kushal Makwana. I can't think that I did write a specific part two of this post. What did I mention that you feel requires more expansion? A couple of posts that may be of interest, following on from the writing of HTML, are Send Data from the Qlik Load Script and Using Qlik Sense as a Web Server. Hope those are of interest.

By: Kushal Makwana

Kushal Makwana — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 17:22:25 +0000

In reply to Steve Dark. Hi Steve, Do we have part 2 of this blog as I cannot see it on your list?

By: Steve Dark

Steve Dark — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 08:42:19 +0000

In reply to Anas Abbasi.

Hi. Thanks for your comment. Unfortunately you can’t write to an Excel file with the STORE statement. If you have QlikView you could create a straight table with the data in, and then export to Excel using a macro on an open trigger. You could have an Excel macro, or linked query, to the CSV file. If you have other requirements for NPrinting, this will make light work if it – but it’s cost prohibitive for just this purpose.

Beyond that I would suggest emailing Qlik petitioning for UDCs to be able to load from CSV. This would seem to be a sensible feature.

Hope that helps.

By: Anas Abbasi

Anas Abbasi — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 08:02:14 +0000

HI Steve Dark
I was wondering, is there a way we can store the table file in XLSX (excel) format, I have been trying to do that to create UDC in Qlik Sense. Please help me if there is a way. I have tried doing it in .csv but its not working.