# QlikView

## Connectivity Summary

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**Lineage Information:**

* **Presentation Layer Apps -** By Using a log file of an Application finding the QVD Builders and their L1 and L2 applications.&#x20;
* **QVD Builders -** By Using a log file of an Application finding the Sources of a resident table.&#x20;

## Connector Capabilities

The following connection settings should be added for connecting to a QlikView Connector:

* **Database Type:** QlikView
* **Connection Name:** Select a Connection name for the QlikView. The name that you specify is a reference name to easily identify your Qlik View connection in OvalEdge.\
  Example: QlikView Connection
* **Source Documents Path:** Where all the Apps Source Code files are stored.
* **Logs Path:** Where all the QlikView apps logs exist.

> Once connectivity is established, additional configurations for Crawling and Profiling can be specified.

| **Crawler Options**  |                                                            |
| -------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------- |
| Reports              | To fetch only reports(By default)                          |
| Report Columns       | To fetch report column(Need to check while crawling)       |
| **Profile Options**  | No profile Option                                          |
| **Crawler Rules**    |                                                            |
| Include Report Regex | Includes only reports which matches regex with report name |
| Exclude Report Regex | Excludes reports which matches regex with report name      |

## **Points to note**

We use a XLSX file which is maintained by the client for the list of Applications.

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