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    Introduction to QlikView
    • 17 Jan 2024
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    Introduction to QlikView

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    General

    Mail & Deploy supports datasources in the form of QlikView documents. These datasources can either be Local QlikView Documents which are accessible through the local or network file system or Server QlikView Documents which are accessible through a QlikView server.

    Requirements

    In order to use any QlikView datasource in Mail & Deploy, the following requirements need to be met:

    QlikView Desktop Client

    The machine that runs Mail & Deploy Server needs to have a QlikView Desktop Client (version 12.20 or higher) installed which needs to be licensed for the Service User.

    NOTE

    A good way to find out whether the QlikView Desktop Client is licensed for the service user is to interactively logon to the machine that runs Mail & Deploy Server with the service user and to start QlikView. If it opens as a licensed instance, the requirements for Mail & Deploy are met; if does not (i.e. it opens as Personal Edition), you need to apply a license before using QlikView datasources with Mail & Deploy.

    WARNING

    QlikView versions which are no longer supported by Qlik are not officially supported by Mail & Deploy either; there's a good chance that most of the functionality will work as expected, but since Qlik does not provide any support for the API of unsupported QlikView versions, we cannot guarantee that it does.

    Compatibility Considerations

    When using QlikView documents as datasources in Mail & Deploy, a few compatibility considerations need to be taken into account.

    Extension visualizations

    Due to the nature of the API of QlikView, Mail & Deploy can only export data and visualizations from standard visualizations. 3rd party extensions are not supported.

    Table Export

    When exporting tables from QlikView, Mail & Deploy tries to get the best possible representation of the table. However, QlikView has a known limitation: If the number format in a table (Table Properties → Number) is set to Expression Default, QlikView will not correctly provide number formats and therefore export all values a text. This leads to wrong horizontal alignments as well as text values instead of the actual numeric values to be exported by Mail & Deploy. Unfortunately, the only workaround is to explicitly set the number format since this is a limitation of QlikView:  Qlik Knowledge Base Article.

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