topic QlikView Directory Service, Active Directory, DMS - prevent &quot;all users&quot; to get access to files / list files in QlikView https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/QlikView-Directory-Service-Active-Directory-DMS-prevent-quot-all/m-p/1206970#M1251284 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello,</P><P></P><P>We have a QlikView Setup with many QlikView files and strict security requirements. Usually a user has access to one or more files but nothing else. A user should not even be allowed to see other file names (as our file names already give some information about the content).</P><P></P><P>As we also add new files and add security settings for this files on a regular basis we want to reduce the possibility to do a wrong setup. Especially we are afraid that somebody might add access for "All Users" or "All Authentificated Users" to a document by accident.</P><P></P><P><STRONG>Our Current Setup:</STRONG></P><UL><LI>QlikView Files - WITHOUT Section Access</LI><LI>"DMS authorization" on QlikView Server</LI><LI><SPAN style="font-size: 10pt;">Directory Service Connector: Active Directory</SPAN></LI><LI>Access to a file is given by changing the Authorization of a file on QlikView Management Console</LI></UL><P></P><P>I wonder if Section Acces can help here adding additional security?</P><P></P><P>When I understood everything correct we could</P><UL><LI>add section access to our files and restrict the files to certain AD User(s)</LI><LI>Ensure we use document property "Filter AccesPoint Document List Based on Section Access"</LI><LI>use AD users or groups without password (using field NTUSERS only)</LI><LI>use a database table as input for the list of users allowed users for section access (which would then allow me to add restrictions on a database level)</LI></UL><P></P><P>Is it correct that the effect would then be that</P><UL><LI>a user will only see documents in his list were he/she has Section Access PLUS Access on a Document level.</LI><LI>so even setting "All Users" in Management Console by accident would not show this file (name) to other users</LI><LI>our end users will not be asked again to enter their password when opening the QV file on AccesPoint </LI></UL><P></P><P>Did I oversee other possibilities to do further restrict the access? If yes, would be great if you could give me some hints.</P><P></P><P>Thx</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:19:17 GMT 2026-01-26T18:19:17Z QlikView Directory Service, Active Directory, DMS - prevent "all users" to get access to files / list files https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/QlikView-Directory-Service-Active-Directory-DMS-prevent-quot-all/m-p/1206970#M1251284 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello,</P><P></P><P>We have a QlikView Setup with many QlikView files and strict security requirements. Usually a user has access to one or more files but nothing else. A user should not even be allowed to see other file names (as our file names already give some information about the content).</P><P></P><P>As we also add new files and add security settings for this files on a regular basis we want to reduce the possibility to do a wrong setup. Especially we are afraid that somebody might add access for "All Users" or "All Authentificated Users" to a document by accident.</P><P></P><P><STRONG>Our Current Setup:</STRONG></P><UL><LI>QlikView Files - WITHOUT Section Access</LI><LI>"DMS authorization" on QlikView Server</LI><LI><SPAN style="font-size: 10pt;">Directory Service Connector: Active Directory</SPAN></LI><LI>Access to a file is given by changing the Authorization of a file on QlikView Management Console</LI></UL><P></P><P>I wonder if Section Acces can help here adding additional security?</P><P></P><P>When I understood everything correct we could</P><UL><LI>add section access to our files and restrict the files to certain AD User(s)</LI><LI>Ensure we use document property "Filter AccesPoint Document List Based on Section Access"</LI><LI>use AD users or groups without password (using field NTUSERS only)</LI><LI>use a database table as input for the list of users allowed users for section access (which would then allow me to add restrictions on a database level)</LI></UL><P></P><P>Is it correct that the effect would then be that</P><UL><LI>a user will only see documents in his list were he/she has Section Access PLUS Access on a Document level.</LI><LI>so even setting "All Users" in Management Console by accident would not show this file (name) to other users</LI><LI>our end users will not be asked again to enter their password when opening the QV file on AccesPoint </LI></UL><P></P><P>Did I oversee other possibilities to do further restrict the access? If yes, would be great if you could give me some hints.</P><P></P><P>Thx</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:19:17 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/QlikView-Directory-Service-Active-Directory-DMS-prevent-quot-all/m-p/1206970#M1251284 2026-01-26T18:19:17Z