topic Remove recently opened documents in QlikView

Remove recently opened documents

jjfabian — Thu, 24 May 2012 09:51:27 GMT

Hi everyone,

is there a way to remove all recently opened documents on the startpage?

Re: Remove recently opened documents

ekech_infomotio — Thu, 24 May 2012 09:57:50 GMT

Hi Jakob,

go to "User Preferences" => "General" and set "Most Recently Used Files" => "On Startpage" to 0.

Greetings from Frankfurt,

Edgar

Re: Remove recently opened documents

jagannalla — Thu, 24 May 2012 10:04:47 GMT

If you want to remove manually. Open qlikview start page and select Recenlty Opened Documents -> Right click on the file which you want to remove -> Remove "FileName" from the list.

In this process you can open your qvw file without, Open the file and reload & also you can add your application to your favorities.

Hope it helps you.

Cheers!

Remove recently opened documents

jjfabian — Thu, 24 May 2012 10:07:39 GMT

Hi Edgar,

this does not actually remove the documents.

The list is empty after you set the value to 0, but when you then change your settings back, the same documents are in their agian.

Remove recently opened documents

Thu, 24 May 2012 10:08:33 GMT

Hi,

1. On Menubar , open File button
2. In General tab, there is a "Most Recently Used Files" label
3. In that "On startpage" textbox make that value zero.

Image attached for reference.

Thanks
Sup

Remove recently opened documents

jjfabian — Thu, 24 May 2012 10:09:14 GMT

Hi Jagan,

removing those files manually is exactly what I don't want to do. Ever tried removing 250+ files?

It would be nice if you could just remove them all with one click.

Remove recently opened documents

jjfabian — Thu, 24 May 2012 10:12:25 GMT

Like I said to Edgar prior to this, that's not really a "solution". Setting the value to 0 remove the entire list.

I want the list. I just want it to be empty.

Remove recently opened documents

Thu, 24 May 2012 10:19:46 GMT

It is the proper solution coz u get the list empty but still the list exits.

If you want something more, please elaborate

Remove recently opened documents

jjfabian — Thu, 24 May 2012 10:37:05 GMT

I would like a list that's empty and that works.

However, setting a 0 where you suggests only changes the display mode, it doesn't actually empty the list.

Re: Remove recently opened documents

ekech_infomotio — Thu, 24 May 2012 10:47:31 GMT

OK, here's just a dirty but working solution:

Make sure, Qlikview is closed / not running

Go to c:\users\<your_user_name_here>\AppData\Roaming\Qliktech\Qlikview\

Open the File "Settings.ini" with a text editor and delete the Lines beginning with FileXXX= in the "[Recent File List]" Chapter.

Save the file

Start Qlikview and enjoy 😉

Hope this is the right solution for you 😉

Edgar

Remove recently opened documents

jjfabian — Thu, 24 May 2012 10:57:28 GMT

That's exactly what I was looking for.

Knew that information had to be somewhere.

Remove recently opened documents

jagannalla — Thu, 24 May 2012 11:07:54 GMT

Hello,

I did samething but it won't works for me i can able to see recently opened qvw files in start up page.

In settings.ini i deleted the lines which begins with FileXXX= as shown below. I saved that file also, where i'm doing wrong.

DlgPos350=326,233,629,514,0

[Recent File List]

[Module Checksums System]

2AB3804F-116DFA7E-9BBFC0F3-5748C077-16223E88=

Re: Remove recently opened documents

smoon63 — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 17:14:24 GMT

Here's a much quicker way to empty the list. Open QlikView Desktop, click "Help/About QlikView...". On the About QlikView window, notice the QlikView "Q" in the bottom left corner. Right click the Q to open the Settings "Easter Egg" dialog. Scroll down the list until you find "StartPageMruListMaxEntries". Set the value to 0, click "Set" and the list should be empty next time you open it. If you want to start filling it back up, repeat the process and set the value to something greater than zero.

*** DISCLAIMER: Be VERY careful while in the Settings Easter Egg dialog. There are very powerful settings there, which translates to "there are things in there that can REALLY mess up your QlikView installation if you don't know what you're doing!" ***

Hope this helps,

Scott

Re: Remove recently opened documents

raynac — Fri, 20 Apr 2018 15:35:37 GMT

Thank you so much for this!! I started doing it manually and after 10, it made me crazy. When I went into my ini, I had 116 files. So glad I found this solution!