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What happens to ten years of Qlik scripts?
They stay yours. Papercrane connects to Qlik Cloud, reads your load scripts, source queries, app data models, and sheet inventory, and its AI agent rebuilds your dashboards from that logic as live code you own.
Connect in about a minute with a key you create in your Qlik Cloud settings. Read only. Free to connect and ask. Paid plans start when you publish a dashboard. See pricing
Every Qlik team hits the same fork
Renew, on the new meter.
New Qlik Cloud contracts price on peak data loaded per month, not users. The number on your renewal is not the number on your last one.
Take the free tool, one direction.
Qlik's migration tool moves QlikView and client managed apps into Qlik Cloud at no cost. It only goes that way.
Rebuild somewhere else, by hand.
Every guide says the same thing: the load scripts and the associative model don't translate. The rebuild gets scoped like a new project, because it is one.
All three roads treat your scripts as a liability. They are the opposite: the source queries, the mapping loads, the incremental logic, and the QVD chain are written down, and Papercrane reads them.
Ten years of logic, one page of script
Sales_Ops.qvf · load script
The currency mapping from 2016, still load bearing
No script builds this file anymore. The agent flags it as the source of record instead of guessing.
Your source query, extracted
Incremental watermark: the logic every migration guide warns about
This is what the connection reads: the load script exactly as your developer wrote it, the source queries inside it, the data model it builds, and the sheets built on top. The agent treats the script as the specification and rebuilds the dashboard against the sources the script already names.
A script like this is documentation. Papercrane treats it that way.
Take inventory before you pick a road
Connecting and asking is free. Whatever you decide about Qlik, decide it knowing exactly what your apps contain.
Show me the load script behind the margin dashboard
Which apps load from the old ERP extract?
Which QVDs does no script build anymore?
Rebuild the daily ops dashboard here, and blend in the targets from our planning spreadsheet
From script to shipped dashboard
STEP 1
Connect and read.
Add a key from your Qlik Cloud settings. The agent inventories your apps, reads the load scripts and data models, and answers questions about any of it.
STEP 2
Pick a dashboard. The agent rebuilds it.
It works from the extracted script and model, not from guesses: the source queries and transformation logic are the starting point, pointed at the systems your scripts already name: Snowflake, SQL Server, Postgres, even the spreadsheets on the share. You check the numbers side by side before anything ships.
STEP 3
Publish when it is right.
Share by link, embed it, or put it on your own domain. When a dashboard breaks later, the error routes back to the agent, so it gets fixed without waiting on you.
The straight answer on what transfers
| From your Qlik estate | Carries over? | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Load scripts and source queries | Yes | Read in full; the ETL logic is the rebuild's specification |
| App data models and fields | Yes | Tables, fields, and how they connect |
| Sheet and chart inventory | Yes | What exists, where it lives, what it shows |
| QVD layer | Visible | Scripts show what builds each QVD and what reads it. A QVD no script builds anymore gets flagged as the source of record, not papered over; see the QVD answer in the FAQ |
| Set analysis expressions in charts | Rebuilt | The row that costs the most checking: recreated as measures against the model, verified side by side, never imported verbatim. See the set analysis answer in the FAQ |
| The associative selection experience | No | Papercrane builds dashboards, not an associative exploration engine. If your users live in green, white, and gray, read the next section |
| Section access and permissions | No | Papercrane has its own sharing model; access gets set up fresh |
| Reload schedules | Recreated | Rebuilt as scheduled refreshes, not imported |
The two No rows are the trust purchase for every Yes row.
When you don't need us
If your business users spend their day making selections and following green, white, and gray across the whole data model, that is Qlik's associative engine doing the thing nothing else does, and you should keep it: no dashboard tool, ours included, replicates it. And if you are a Microsoft 365 shop leaving Qlik purely on cost, Power BI at its per user price is the cheap road and we are not trying to be it. Papercrane earns the move when the scripts hold logic you cannot afford to retype, and the dashboards need to live where seat licenses don't reach: shared by link, embedded in your product, or on your own domain.
Rebuild one dashboard from its own script, then judge it.
Connect free, inventory the estate, pick the dashboard that matters, and check the numbers side by side. Paid starts when you publish, share, or embed.
Flat pricing, not a data meter. See pricing
Questions Qlik teams ask us
Point the rebuilt dashboards at the sources your load scripts already name, then add the ones Qlik never reached.
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