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How to Create Password Protection for Report in Nprinting 17.2 (Connect to Qlik Sense)?

Thu, 29 Dec 2016 09:15:13 GMT

Dear All

I use Nprinting Qlik (PixelPerfect) to create reports and send them to the customer by Email and I want to password protection for reports, each client has a different password, but I do not know how?

I found in the document "https://community.qlik.com/docs/DOC-13958" but it look like does not apply to Qlik Nprinting 17.2 (connect to Qlik Sense 3.1)

I want to know can I create passwords for each report? and if so then how can do it?

Thanks and Best Regard

An Pham

Re: How to Create Password Protection for Report in Nprinting 17.2 (Connect to Qlik Sense)?

woutermak — Thu, 29 Dec 2016 12:44:10 GMT

I don't think this is an option in 17.2.

Re: How to Create Password Protection for Report in Nprinting 17.2 (Connect to Qlik Sense)?

Anonymous — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 04:31:12 GMT

Hi, did you find any workaround solution for this by any chance ?

I am dealing with the same issue in Nprinting november 2017 version...I can't find the option for password protection of reports either and it seems like the feature is simply not supported

Re: How to Create Password Protection for Report in Nprinting 17.2 (Connect to Qlik Sense)?

Lech_Miszkiewicz — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 07:19:34 GMT

Hi,

Go to this link & scroll down to the table. It shows you all supported features:

https://help.qlik.com/en-US/nprinting/February2018/Content/Introduction/Introduction.htm‌

NPrinitng 17 does not support password protected reports

cheers

Lech

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Re: How to Create Password Protection for Report in Nprinting 17.2 (Connect to Qlik Sense)?

Anonymous — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 07:49:46 GMT

Thanks Lech, the feature is not in the list so let's just hope it will be added in new release

Re: How to Create Password Protection for Report in Nprinting 17.2 (Connect to Qlik Sense)?

Ruggero_Piccoli — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 09:51:17 GMT

Hi,

Only for PixelPerfect templates there is a workaround but it will set the same password for all generated reports.

Best Regards,

Ruggero

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Re: How to Create Password Protection for Report in Nprinting 17.2 (Connect to Qlik Sense)?

Anonymous — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 02:49:48 GMT

Thanks a lot Ruggero this is really helpful.

However my reports are already created as Excel reports, I assume it means I would have to re-create them all over again in Pixel Perfect template to be able to get the password protection functionality, right ?

Thanks

Kristina

Re: How to Create Password Protection for Report in Nprinting 17.2 (Connect to Qlik Sense)?

Lech_Miszkiewicz — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 03:21:15 GMT

Hi Kristina,

I am not sure what is the pupruse of password protection you need.

If say you are creating reports to a folder and you want people to only be able to open certain reports the easies way of doing this is by creating a folder structure and applying security on the folder access. This way you would not have to re-create all your reports and only thing would be to change NPrinting destionation for each task.

As Ruggero mention password created in pixelperfect report will not be user specific - it will be report specific, so all users getting the same report will need to know the password and it will be the same password.

regards

Lech

Re: How to Create Password Protection for Report in Nprinting 17.2 (Connect to Qlik Sense)?

Anonymous — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 03:30:44 GMT

Hi Lech,

thanks for the message. I know there are other security options as well but I do need to distribute the reports via email, due to multiple reasons and extra password protection is required by the customer. It doesn't matter that the password will be the same for all the reports since every recipient will just receive reports that are relevant for him/her.

I'll check again with the customer and try to find a compromise.

Thanks very much !

Cheers,

Kristina

Re: How to Create Password Protection for Report in Nprinting 17.2 (Connect to Qlik Sense)?

Lech_Miszkiewicz — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 03:33:08 GMT

Undestand - In this case indeed PixelPerfect password protection might serve the purpuse

regards

Lech

Re: How to Create Password Protection for Report in Nprinting 17.2 (Connect to Qlik Sense)?

Ruggero_Piccoli — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 07:11:58 GMT

If you want Excel reports my suggestion is to create Excel template to have the best control on the output. I suggest to not to create a PixelPerfect to generate reports in formats different than PDF.

Unfortunately the feature to password protect Excel reports is not yet implemented in Qlik NPrinting 17+. It is available for the 16 family.

Best Regards,

Ruggero

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Re: How to Create Password Protection for Report in Nprinting 17.2 (Connect to Qlik Sense)?

Anonymous — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 07:15:44 GMT

Yes I thought so. Thank you very much.

Re: How to Create Password Protection for Report in Nprinting 17.2 (Connect to Qlik Sense)?

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Apr 2018 04:00:41 GMT

Hi Ruggero,

I am still trying to find a workaround for this, so I tried to create a template in Excel, protect the template with the password and then import it to Nprinting. Everything worked fine, it allowed me to open the Nprinting designer and edit the template (it asked me for the password and let me see the report) but unfortunately it didn't let me save the report. It gave me an error saying "an error occured when elaborating the entity tags". I tried changing the tags and even save the report with no tags but didn't work.

Therefore I am assuming that the error pops up because of the password protection in the template excel file What do you think ? Could there be any other reason causing this error message ?

Thanks

Kristina

Re: How to Create Password Protection for Report in Nprinting 17.2 (Connect to Qlik Sense)?

Ruggero_Piccoli — Tue, 17 Apr 2018 08:18:27 GMT

Hi,

Password protection is not yet supported in 17+ versions. I suggested a workaround that works only for PixelPerfect reports but not in Microsoft Office templates. So Office passwords arr not managed at the moment.

Best Regards,

Ruggero

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Re: How to Create Password Protection for Report in Nprinting 17.2 (Connect to Qlik Sense)?

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Apr 2018 08:22:14 GMT

yes thanks. I am hoping it will be available in future versions. Any idea if it is on the roadmap ?

Re: How to Create Password Protection for Report in Nprinting 17.2 (Connect to Qlik Sense)?

Ruggero_Piccoli — Tue, 17 Apr 2018 08:45:31 GMT

No, I ask.

BR,

Ruggero