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qlik and openoffice

is it possible to use openoffice suite instead of office one, maintaining the same Qlik functionalities vs excel?

if yes, how?

thanks

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rwunderlich
Partner Ambassador/MVP
Partner Ambassador/MVP

The Export to Excel functions will work with OO as long as the *.xls file association is mapped to scalc.exe.

Macro scripts that actually manipulate the Excel object (which you may have seen on this forum) will not work without modification. OO uses a different API than Excel.

Bottom line: Native QV Excel functions will work with OO, custom macro code may not.

-ROb

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rwunderlich
Partner Ambassador/MVP
Partner Ambassador/MVP

The Export to Excel functions will work with OO as long as the *.xls file association is mapped to scalc.exe.

Macro scripts that actually manipulate the Excel object (which you may have seen on this forum) will not work without modification. OO uses a different API than Excel.

Bottom line: Native QV Excel functions will work with OO, custom macro code may not.

-ROb

fedcas
Partner - Contributor III
Partner - Contributor III

Hi,

And the integration with powerpoint, is it possible also with Presentation?

fedcas
Partner - Contributor III
Partner - Contributor III

Sorry not Presentation but Impress

rwunderlich
Partner Ambassador/MVP
Partner Ambassador/MVP

Do you mean the drag and drop integration? I just tried it and it doesn't appear to work, but I didn't dig very deep. Perhaps someone else knows the answer.

-Rob

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All,

I don't have the "official" answer, but I know that OpenOffice is not a Microsoft product, so it does not take advantage of the OCX and integration APIs that Microsoft products have with QlikView...I'm fairly certain the drag and drop capability will not work.

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Hi, to export by macro a table/pivot to an openoffice/libreoffice calc i have used the usual vb script:"obj.ExportBiff "C:\.."" that use the microsoft excel dll.

So to have the same dll i have tried to install microsoft ExcelViewer (that it's license free) and so the macro works perfectly. After you can also open the file.xls in a open calc program as usual..

Hope to help you