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title: "Server QlikView Documents"
slug: "server-qlikview-documents"
description: "How to connect to QlikView documents hosted on a QlikView Server, including access requirements and how server documents differ from local ones."
updated: 2025-10-07T09:58:24Z
published: 2025-10-07T10:23:14Z
canonical: "help.mail-and-deploy.com/server-qlikview-documents"
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# Server QlikView Documents

### General

This type of datasource connects to a QlikView document on a QlikView server using a QVP URL. The [Service Account](/release36/docs/service-account) needs to have access to the QVW on the QlikView server.

### Properties

This type of datasource has the following properties:

| Name | Description |
| --- | --- |
| Name | The name of this datasource. This does not have to be the name of the QVW file. |
| QVP URL | The QVP URL of the QlikView document. You can get the QVP URL by launching QlikView Desktop Client and opening the QVW; the title bar will then display the QVP URL. |
| Use Custom Section Access Credentials | This setting needs to be disabled if the QlikView document does not use section access. If the QlikView document does use section access and the [Mail & Deploy Service Account](/release36/docs/service-account) is an NTNAME section access user, the property needs to be disabled as well. The property needs to be enabled if you need to specify a USERID section access user (see [QlikView Section Access Management](https://help.qlik.com/en-US/qlikview/April2020/Subsystems/QMC/Content/QV_QMC/QMC_Users_SectionAccessManagement.htm)). |
| Username | The USERID of the section access user to use to open the QVW document. This property is only applicable if *Use Custom Section Access Credentials* is enabled. |
| Password | The password associated with the USERID to use to open the QVW document. This property is only applicable if *Use Custom Section Access Credentials* is enabled. |
| Set Filter Before Rebuilding Cache | When enabled a filter can be set before the cache of the datasource (see [Datasources](/release36/docs/introduction-to-datasources)) is rebuilt. This can help speeding up the cache rebuilding process, especially for very large or complex data models. |
| Filter Field Name | The name of the field to filter before rebuilding the cache. This property is only applicable if *Set Filter Before Rebuilding Cache* is enabled. |
| Filter Value | An [Expression](/release36/docs/introduction-to-mail-and-deploy-expressions) that returns the value to filter to before rebuilding the cache. This property is only applicable if *Set Filter Before Rebuilding Cache* is enabled. |
| Click Button Before Rebuilding Cache | When enabled, you can specify a *Button ID*; this is the ID of a button object within the QlikView document that shall be clicked before rebuilding the cache of the datasource datasource (see [Datasources](/release36/docs/introduction-to-datasources)). |
| Button ID | The ID of the button object within the QlikView document to be clicked before rebuilding the cache of the datasource. This property is only applicable when *Click Button Before Rebuilding Cache* is enabled. |

### Section Access

If the QlikView document is protected using *Section Access* there are two ways to allow Mail & Deploy to access that QlikView document (see [QlikView Section Access Management](https://help.qlik.com/en-US/qlikview/April2020/Subsystems/QMC/Content/QV_QMC/QMC_Users_SectionAccessManagement.htm)).

          NOTE

          

Mail & Deploy always needs a section access with an ACCESS of ADMIN to the QlikView document.

#### NTNAME access

If the [Mail & Deploy Service Account](/release36/docs/service-account) exists as an NTNAME section access user in the QlikView document, the property Use Custom Section Access Credentials does not need to be enabled.

#### USERID access

You can also add a custom USERID section access entry to the section access user list of the QlikView document. In that case, the property *Use Custom Section Access Credentials* needs to be enabled and you need to specify the USERID as *Username* and the associated password as *Password*.