Does Qlik Sense store your data within the .qvf file?

mc19qlik — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 20:36:15 GMT

Hopefully an easy question, but I'm wondering whether in a Qlik Sense file where data has been loaded in through a database connection, if the data is stored in the .qvf file? When I run Qlik in flight mode on my laptop, I can still access the data and load more than just what is available in the initial views, which suggests to me that the data is in embedded in the file.

I want to know this from a data security point of view (if the file got sent to the incorrect location, would there potentially be data included in the .qvf?) as well as from a point of view of how this translates to Qlik Sense Cloud (if I don't want to change the data in the dashboard once it's been put in Qlik Sense Cloud, do I need to establish the database connection in Qlik Sense cloud too?)

Thanks in advance for any guidance on the above.

Re: Does Qlik Sense store your data within the .qvf file?

anushree1 — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 10:29:44 GMT

Hi,

To answer your first question, Yes QVF also hosts the data once the app is open it has all of its data rendered to the RAM (Server/ Desktop) based on the instance, so in case you share it to the wrong person and have enabled all the security permissions valid, he/she will be able to see the data.

I am not that aware of Cloud so wont be able to shed any light on the second part of it

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