topic Re: Dangling qvw document in User Document on Management Console in QlikView

Dangling qvw document in User Document on Management Console

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

as we change folder structure few times and may be not do in a proper way, now i saw these dangling documents, and can't get rid of it.

Anyone encounter this before? and How to successfully remove it?

Re: Dangling qvw document in User Document on Management Console

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 05:53:23 GMT

Check in this location:

C:\ProgramData\QlikTech\Documents

if found remove them.

Re: Dangling qvw document in User Document on Management Console

ingridmerx — Mon, 04 Dec 2017 07:44:18 GMT

I am having the same problem. The document cannot be found anywhere (such as programdata\Qliktech).

Is there an easy way to get rid of this ghost document? Maybe in registry?

Re: Dangling qvw document in User Document on Management Console

Peter_Cammaert — Mon, 04 Dec 2017 09:51:01 GMT

Those "Dangling documents" are indeed ghost documents that have been removed from their original location without first removing any and all reload tasks and/or document CALs. This way, QMC indicates that it has task/CAL assignments for documents that do not exist anymore. The ghost documents end up in the Document tree root (if you don't have a publisher license) and have their names all in CAPITALS.

How to get rid of them? Free the assigned CALs and/or remove all linked task definitions (Reload tab). The easiest wxay to do this is to recreate those documents (0-length placeholders will do just fine) in their original locations, open the QMC and (if they moved from the root to their proper location) unassign CALs and clear Reload settings/task definitions). After these have been completed, drop the placeholder documents. They will not reappear...

Best,

Peter