Governance Dashboard cannot handle special characters in QVW and QVD filenames including [ ] '

[NadiaB]

The QlikView Governance Dashboard returns an error when using special characters in .QVW and .QVD filenames including: [ ] '

Error:
The control statement is not correctly matched with its corresponding start statement

Environment

• QlikView Governance Dashboard 

Resolution:

Improvements were made in the version. 2.1.4 to provide more flexibility, but not all special characters will be available. To permanently resolve the issue, remove the special characters in the file names. 

The following PowerShell can help to list folder, subfolders and file names, where the path configured in the GD needs to be replaced:

Get-ChildItem -Path C:\Documents –Recurse

If file/folder names have symbols try to remove them/exclude them and try again,  symbols that can cause the issue are (ASCII listed for reference), keep in mind that other symbols can cause the issue we are listing those that were already identified:

[ 91
] 93
{ 123
} 125
' 39
- 45
_ 95

, (comma)

Internal Investigation ID(s): 

GOVDASH-190

[NadiaB]

Hi @BrunPierre 

What version of the Governance Dashboard are you testing?

Governance Dashboard 2.1.2 and newer require Audit Logging enabled. By any chance could you verify and let us know the outcome ?

https://community.qlik.com/t5/Knowledge/Governance-Dashboard-quot-Audit-timestamp-quot-error/ta-p/17...

Hope it helps !

[BrunPierre]

@NadiaB  It's v2.1.4 and Audit Logging is checked, yet it still throws a "Field not found - <AuditId>" error.

[craigbrett]

This is nuts. The Governance dashboard can't handle a simple underscore in the file name? This makes the tool basically useless. Using an underscore when naming files is absolutely common practice.