Empty PRJ Folder in QlikView Documents after Saving

rolmontero — Sat, 02 May 2026 01:13:26 GMT

Hi everyone,

Currently, I'm trying to migrate a QlikView document to Qlik Cloud app using the QV2QS Converter Tool (version 1.3.0), but I'm facing some difficulties when automatically creating the prj folder with such tool; it shows the following error:

C:/QlikViewToQlikCloud/DocumentName.qvw","error":"SaveAs failed: (-2147352567, 'Exception occurred.', (None, None, None, 0, None))","elapsed":17.707445599982748}
2026-05-02T00:56:01.887Z ERROR v1.3.0 20260502-005543-272b7fd8 qv2qs prj_autogen_single_fail PRJ auto-generation failed {"qvw":"C:/QlikViewToQlikCloud/DocumentName.qvw","error":"SaveAs failed: (-2147352567, 'Exception occurred.', (None, None, None, 0, None))","error_code":""}

For this reason, I tried creating the files with QlikView Desktop (May 2021 SR2 (12.60.20200.0)). However, when I save certain .qvw documents with a matching empty DocumentName-prj folder next to them, no XML files are generated. The .qvw save itself works (timestamp updates, no errors), but the prj export silently does nothing. Two out of three document I need to convert do not create the files.

Already ruled out: folder naming, path, permissions, QlikView version, file corruption (Save As reproduces the issue), macros (module empty), User Preferences security and compression settings, extensions, reports, bookmarks, alerts. I also deleted all sheets and emptied the script — prj folder still empty.

Key finding: A brand new blank document with only BINARY LOAD [Path] in the script generates prj files correctly on save. So the data model is fine — the issue might be at the document level in the original (triggers, variables, internal metadata) that silently aborts prj export without affecting the regular save.

The original document has an OnOpen trigger with actions, several other empty triggers, multiple variables, and 13 sheets with standard objects (no extensions).

Has anyone hit this before? Are there known document-level elements (specific trigger actions, variables, properties) that break prj XML generation?

Any help will be appreciated!

Thanks a lot and have a great day!

Re: Empty PRJ Folder in QlikView Documents after Saving

AdamBS — Sat, 02 May 2026 07:36:58 GMT

In our experience, the only time a PRJ fails to populate is when there is a Container Object that contains an orphaned object. On a fail with PRJ, my first step is Settings / Doc Properties / Sheets - sort by object id and go through all the containers' properties - haven't yet had a situation where there was not a object marked orphaned - remove them and save gives a populated PRJ. In your case, removing all sheets I would have expected the PRJ to populate... so this may be a different situation. Still thought I should share.

Re: Empty PRJ Folder in QlikView Documents after Saving

rolmontero — Sat, 02 May 2026 15:46:22 GMT

Hi @AdamBS ,

Thanks for your suggestion, I will try it anyway, but yes, it really strange that with some documents, the PRJ folder populates just fine, whereas with other it doesn't.

Have a great day!

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