topic Integrating QlickView Personal Edition with Desktop Application in QlikView

Integrating QlickView Personal Edition with Desktop Application

Anonymous — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:26:21 GMT

I am interested in integrating QlikView Personal Edition with my desktop application. I have it mostly working, but I am concerned about the path to the Excel data being different on user machines.

I have a QlikView file I created (QlikDashboard.qvw) with the desired charts pre-configured. Currently my process looks like this:

Delete qlik.xls
Generate new qlik.xls with desired data.
Shellexecute QlikDashboard.qvw

I would like QlikView to display the pre-configured charts using the data in the new qlik.xls file, which will likely not be in the same location as the qlik.xls file used when I created QlikDashboard.qvw, but it WILL be in the same folder as QlikDashboard.qvw when I open it.

Can anyone point me in the right direction with regards to updating the excel data and potentially the .xls file path when opening a qvw file?

Re: Integrating QlickView Personal Edition with Desktop Application

lironbaram — Wed, 20 Sep 2017 03:39:10 GMT

if the files are in the same folder

make sure that in the load statement you only reference the file name

with out a path

Qlikview will no to search the file in the same folder

so anyone who has the files in the same folder will be able to load the qvw app

with no regard to the folder path

Re: Integrating QlickView Personal Edition with Desktop Application

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Sep 2017 22:09:21 GMT

Thank you, Liron. I removed the path from the filename in the LOAD FROM statement, which solved my path issue. I am also launching qv.exe with the /l switch to load the data on startup.