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About the QlikView catalog source

You can use the QlikView catalog source to extract metadata from the QlikView source system.

QlikView is flexible business intelligence tool to connect to data and create reports. Create a QlikView catalog source to extract metadata from the QlikView source system.

Extracted metadata

You can extract specific metadata from a QlikView source system with a QlikView catalog source.

Objects extracted

Metadata Command Center extracts the following objects from a QlikView source system:

•Application
•Button Field
•Column
•Condition
•Connection
•Connection Model
•Connection Schema
•Database Schema
•Document
•Expression
•Field
•File
•File Directory
•Folder
•Group
•Measure
•QVD
•QVD Model
•QVW
•QVW Model
•Source Column
•Source File
•Source Table
•System Field
•System Variable
•Table
•Text Field
•Variable