topic Re: Hide \ Encrypt or protect script and buissness modeling in QlikView

Hide \ Encrypt or protect script and buissness modeling

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

Dears,

I have one QVW that I need to make its script hidden totally from any user using the QVW or QlikView server.

in other words, all the script which I am going to write to load and reload data should not be visible, accessible or readable to the users using the QVW through any tools (server \ desktop) even this user is an admin user.

Is there a way to do that?

Thanks in advance.

Re: Hide \ Encrypt or protect script and buissness modeling

oknotsen — Sat, 20 Feb 2016 10:08:56 GMT

Create a hidden script page (in script editor, go to file and select "Create Hidden Script" and do not tell anyone the password.

Re: Hide \ Encrypt or protect script and buissness modeling

mohammedsleem — Sat, 20 Feb 2016 10:11:48 GMT

Thanks Onno for your reply.

So adding the whole script of the QVW in the single sheet of the hidden script is the optimum solution for hiding the QVW script?

Re: Hide \ Encrypt or protect script and buissness modeling

kaushiknsolanki — Sat, 20 Feb 2016 10:11:50 GMT

Hi,

Followings are the different ways.

1. As Onno said you can use Hidden Script.

2. You can also use the Include function to load the script from text file.

3. You can use Binary load option which will not have any script in application.

Regards,

Kaushik Solanki

Re: Hide \ Encrypt or protect script and buissness modeling

mohammedsleem — Sat, 20 Feb 2016 10:16:51 GMT

Thanks Kaushik for your reply.

for the include function. the file path will be available in the script so getting the TXT file and reading its content will not be hard.

for the binary load. the QVW bath will be available in the script as well. so getting its path and reading it is not hard.

I need to protect the business logic form the customer himself. I don't want the customer to know how I can get my data from my applications.

I can see that the hidden script is the best solution till now but adding the whole script of the QVW in the single sheet of the hidden script is the optimum solution for hiding the QVW script?

Re: Hide \ Encrypt or protect script and buissness modeling

oknotsen — Sat, 20 Feb 2016 10:19:37 GMT

Just for the record... Isn't the business logic owned by the customer?

Plus the customer has no gain in destroying his own business logic.

Re: Hide \ Encrypt or protect script and buissness modeling

mohammedsleem — Sat, 20 Feb 2016 10:29:07 GMT

QVWs created on my systems deployed in the customer side. For many reasons, I shouldn't show the customer how we are saving data in the systems which considered as the data sources of the QVWs.

The idea is not to protect the script of business logic from destruction. the idea we have to keep it unknown to the customer in case they dig and try to know how we are getting the data.

Re: Hide \ Encrypt or protect script and buissness modeling

oknotsen — Sat, 20 Feb 2016 11:41:54 GMT

I guess hidden script it is.

Alternatively, you could just save all your tables to QVDs and give the customer just the QVDs and a simple load script.

Re: Hide \ Encrypt or protect script and buissness modeling

mohammedsleem — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 04:23:59 GMT

Dears,

in Qlik sample "Sales Compass .qvw", you can see that there is no script at all. Even the hidden script not activated.

Any clue how this is done?

you can find this sample in your QlikView Server.

Re: Hide \ Encrypt or protect script and buissness modeling

sasikanth — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 04:50:09 GMT

Hi,

Do one thing ,

Go to Document Properties--> security--> un-check the option Edit Script ,

So that Edit script option will be disabled and hence you can protect/ hide from the users .

One more thing if you users are accessing your app through Access point then there is no chance to see the script.

Re: Hide \ Encrypt or protect script and buissness modeling

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 04:59:42 GMT

in edit script have the password option to give the password and the script the hidden

Re: Hide \ Encrypt or protect script and buissness modeling

sasikanth — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 08:09:48 GMT

HI,

simple take your final Application

open edit script --> remove all the script including tabs every thing and save it

Note: take a backup of your application

PFA sample application