Solved: Re: How to clean Document Category List on QMC - Qlik Community

jchoucq · ‎2013-10-15

Hi,

in the QMC, sometimes we can have old categories we would like to delete.

Is there a way to do that ?

Regards,

Johann

Bill_Britt · ‎2013-10-15

HI Johann,

There is not easy way without editing an XLM file. If you decide to do this please make sure you have a backup of it.

You will need to go to C:\ProgramData\QlikTech\ManagementService\QVPR (default installation). There you will find the Category.xml and at the bottom is the Category names.

The line would look like this.

Bill

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Bill_Britt · ‎2013-10-15

HI Johann,

There is not easy way without editing an XLM file. If you decide to do this please make sure you have a backup of it.

You will need to go to C:\ProgramData\QlikTech\ManagementService\QVPR (default installation). There you will find the Category.xml and at the bottom is the Category names.

The line would look like this.

Bill

Bill - Principal Technical Support Engineer at Qlik
To help users find verified answers, please don't forget to use the "Accept as Solution" button on any posts that helped you resolve your problem or question.

jchoucq · ‎2013-10-15

Thanks a lot Bill !

Report Inappropriate Content · ‎2014-02-28

hi thank you for all who are in this discussion

but it is not working in my case i deleted the row from the category.xml yesterday and i checked on my QMC it did not get deleted in the category drop down list.

and today when i saw in the category.xml file i can see the deleted row.

do we need to do any other thing after deleted the below line from category.xml file.

i opened the category.xml file in notepad and deleted the row and saved it

Report Inappropriate Content · ‎2015-05-26

I have the same problem!!

Have you been able to resolve it?

rwunderlich · ‎2015-05-26

Stop the QlikView services before editing the file. Then start the services again after saving your edit.

-Rob

Report Inappropriate Content · ‎2015-05-26

Excellent Rob! I will try that. Thanks!

gainkarthi · ‎2015-05-26

Please restart the QMC and QDS Services. That should fix the issue.

swati_rastogi27 · ‎2019-03-01

I have QlikView version 12 installed on a Windows 2016 Cloud machine.

There is no such path as .../QlikTech/ProgramData

This is what I could find in the installation directory :

C:/Program Files/QlikView/Management Service

In this I can only see the QVPR dll files and no xml files where i can remove/cleanup labels

There is one QVPRXML.dll which of course is encrypted

swati_rastogi27 · ‎2019-03-01

Just discovered , the ProgramData folder was hidden.
At last , found Category.xml file !