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Christopher Ilacqua
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Christopher Ilacqua

Dr. Christopher Ilacqua is the research director of product validation at Qlik®. He has been working with leading customers and partners in the US for more than 3 years garnering feedback on Qlik Sense. Chris has over 25 years of experience in the field of planning and business intelligence, and he has established himself as a leading expert by advising, designing, and implementing hundreds of planning and business intelligence applications. He has a doctorate in business administration, a master's degree in business administration in accounting, and a bachelor's degree in marketing. His research interests focus on big data, data governance, mobile BI, SaaS, business collaboration, and cloud-based solutions. Additionally, Chris serves as an adjunct professor at New England College of Business, where he teaches graduate students strategic leadership, marketing, operations management, and MIS.
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Henric Cronström
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Henric Cronström

Dr. Henric Cronström is vice president product and technical product advocate at Qlik, where he has worked for most of the time since the company was founded. For the first few years in Qlik's history, he was the product manager for QlikView, and then he moved into solution implementation and training. After many years in the field, including a role as a manager for the technical staff in QlikTech, Germany, he returned to Sweden as deputy manager for the development organization. In his current role, his main task is the communication of technical products on blogs, in the press, and directly with large accounts. Henric has a doctorate in elementary particle physics from Lund University.
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James Richardson is business analytics strategist at Qlik®. Prior to joining Qlik,
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Migrating applications from QlikView® to Qlik Sense®


All QlikView applications since QlikView Version 8 can easily be migrated. However, the conversion is only partial. The data and the script will be converted, but nothing from the layout is used. Perform the following steps to migrate applications:

  1. Move the QlikView app—the .qvw file—to your Qlik Sense Desktop app folder at C:\Users\<user>\Documents\Qlik\Sense\Apps. The file will then appear in your Desktop hub as a legacy app. Its name will have (qvw) after it:

  2. You can now open the app and see the data model and the existing script.

  3. Once you make changes, you will need to save these. This is when the conversion takes place. The old app with the new changes will be saved into a file with extension .qvf, and the old .qvw file will be renamed to *.qvw.backup.

Changes to the script

You might also need to make changes to the script. The structure of the script can remain the same, but all references to databases and files should be changed...

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Christopher Ilacqua

Dr. Christopher Ilacqua is the research director of product validation at Qlik®. He has been working with leading customers and partners in the US for more than 3 years garnering feedback on Qlik Sense. Chris has over 25 years of experience in the field of planning and business intelligence, and he has established himself as a leading expert by advising, designing, and implementing hundreds of planning and business intelligence applications. He has a doctorate in business administration, a master's degree in business administration in accounting, and a bachelor's degree in marketing. His research interests focus on big data, data governance, mobile BI, SaaS, business collaboration, and cloud-based solutions. Additionally, Chris serves as an adjunct professor at New England College of Business, where he teaches graduate students strategic leadership, marketing, operations management, and MIS.
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Henric Cronström

Dr. Henric Cronström is vice president product and technical product advocate at Qlik, where he has worked for most of the time since the company was founded. For the first few years in Qlik's history, he was the product manager for QlikView, and then he moved into solution implementation and training. After many years in the field, including a role as a manager for the technical staff in QlikTech, Germany, he returned to Sweden as deputy manager for the development organization. In his current role, his main task is the communication of technical products on blogs, in the press, and directly with large accounts. Henric has a doctorate in elementary particle physics from Lund University.
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James Richardson

James Richardson is business analytics strategist at Qlik®. Prior to joining Qlik,
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