Audit Logging Your Way To Script Success

Richard Pearce

www.qlikcentral.com @richard.pearce60

• 5 Years QlikView

• 10+ Years working within Reporting for various companies

• Excel Jockey

• Moved into Management

• Back into front line when got involved with QV

• Started coding when I was very young. First on the Spectrum 48k, then on the +3, and Amiga

A little about me

• What is Audit Logging?

Introduction

• Process to extract meta data from your scripts

• Different to the standard QlikView script and server logs

• How does this help?

Why Audit?

• Monitor Performance

• Alert you to changes with the source data

• Bug Fixing.

• Key touch points within the script store Meta Data into a QlikView table

• Once the script has finished QV stores the table as a QVD file

• Use a Developer Only Dashboard to interrogate the data

How it works

Subroutine

Subroutine

Passing Variables

• Use them Sparingly

• Subroutines are very old programming technique that was originally used to save limited coding space

Subroutine

Logged Data

Final Dashboard

Final Dashboard

Final Dashboard

Next Steps

Any Questions?

Richard Pearce

@richard.pearce60

www.qlikcentral.com

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