Qlik Deployment Frameworks – using common approaches, naming conventions and paths across developers

Any environment with more than on developer will quickly lose consistency of attributes across the environment. Agreeing standards as part of developer onboarding, and validating these before app acceptance is very important.

An example set of naming conventions is discussed below. This assumes a common directory structure similar to a Qlik Deployment Framework (QDF) model.

The QDF helps to organise application components
The QDF helps to organise application components

The example below follows a concept of one common container (for data and files which aren’t app specific), and a hierarchy of product (one or more applications developed for a specific purpose) followed by customer (a standalone version of those applications, loaded with different data).

The resulting directory structure is therefore Root > Product > Customer.

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