topic DON'T notify on task fail in QlikView

DON'T notify on task fail

vgutkovsky — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:19:17 GMT

Looking for some creative ideas on how to accomplish something I don't think is possible natively. Namely, I want Publisher to NOT notify me via administrative email on the failure of one particular task. And no, it's not possible in this case to simply set ErrorMode to 0 and make the task not fail. I need the task to fail, because I have another task that is triggered off the failure of the first. I just know with a high degree of certainty that the first task will fail at least three times per day, so I don't want to be alerted of that. I still need to be alerted about my other tasks failing though, so can't disable notifications entirely.

Thanks,

Vlad

Re: DON'T notify on task fail

Miguel_Angel_Baeyens — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 15:22:32 GMT

Hey! It's very good to see you around Vlad!

It's not possible natively. Because I guess you still want to know if that task fails for a particular "legitimate" reason (e.g.: the files are locked, corrupted, the user lacks permissions, etc.).

You could use, depending on the logic, another QlikView application reading the .log of that QVW and making it send an alert email only if the condition is met (i.e: the legitimate error above). I know, it's 2 emails instead of none, but something probably easier to achieve.

I have also seen people using NPrinting as their alerting system. By default, they set QlikView to not send any emails. The logs are processed by a separate application and NPrinting only sends the email if the conditions are met.

Re: DON'T notify on task fail

vgutkovsky — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 15:24:49 GMT

Thanks, Miguel. Yeah, I thought of going the NPrinting route too. Kind of overkill though. I think I'll set up an email rule to automatically delete notifications about that particular task. Not super elegant, because I'm not the only administrator in the environment, but I don't want to invest too much time into solving this.

Thanks again,
Vlad