topic Re: Nprinting Vs Publisher in QlikView

Nprinting Vs Publisher

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:19:17 GMT

Hi all,

It is my understanding that Nprinting can do everything that publisher can and on top can provide extra functionalities like pixel perfect formating , excel file creation etc.

My question is, for a new installation, why do i need to buy publisher?????

Regards

Re: Nprinting Vs Publisher

kaushiknsolanki — Sun, 06 Sep 2015 10:55:14 GMT

Hi,

You dont need to buy the publisher to use the Nprinting.

Regards,

Kaushik Solanki

Re: Nprinting Vs Publisher

mr_barriesmith — Sun, 06 Sep 2015 11:14:39 GMT

There are two primary reasons for investing in QlikView Publisher

Allows the back-end reload Tasks to run on a separate server to the front-end QlikView Server machine. This means the interactive user sessions are not impacted if you have to reload QVWs during business hours.
The QlikView Publisher license unlocks the advanced scheduling features meaning you can have more than one reload task per QVW and you have Supporting Tasks which allow automation of other aspects of your solution that are not reloading a QVW.

There is a document available from Qlik called "Why QlikView Publisher" - it is very useful, I could not find it in the community.

All the best, Adam

Re: Nprinting Vs Publisher

Sun, 06 Sep 2015 11:14:53 GMT

My questions is... If i get Nprinting then do i really need to get publisher also? What is the extra functionality that Publisher offers and Nprinting does not have?

Re: Nprinting Vs Publisher

lironbaram — Sun, 06 Sep 2015 11:15:50 GMT

publisher and nprinting are two very diffrent products

publisher main goal in to administrate the qlikview server activity

in regards to :

-reloading the qlikview models

-alerting administrators when there is error in loading process

-distributing the models to other servers

-managing the qlikview users who can see which model

you can add a reporting capabilities to the publisher by purchasing the pdf reporter

which allow you to distribute qlikview reports in pdf formats.

where is nprinting is mainly a reporting tool

that allows you to distribute your reports in various formats (HTML , XLs,PPT,Doc) and more

allows you to distribute to each user only data relevant for him.

nprinting can do a reload of qlikview models , but i wouldn't have replaced publisher for this type of operations

for several reasons : nprinting can only reload one document at a time , nprinting needs a qlikview license to perform the reloads

so the question is what you are looking for

if you need a qlikview administrative tool i would choose publisher (that is the regular server capabilities aren't enough)

if you need a reporting tool then nprinting is your choice

hope this short explanation

helps you

Re: Nprinting Vs Publisher

Sun, 06 Sep 2015 11:17:01 GMT

Hi Adam,

Nprinting reload tasks also run on Nprinting machine, right? I fnprinting machine is seperate from QVServer then adv1 i lost... Is that correct?

Adv2 generally means that i can have parallelism in reload tasks, right?

Re: Nprinting Vs Publisher

Sun, 06 Sep 2015 11:20:19 GMT

Hi Liron

-reloading the qlikview models --> Nprinting can do that but only one task/file at a time, right?

-alerting administrators when there is error in loading process --> What kind of alerts can publisher raise?

-distributing the models to other servers --> Nprinting cannot distribute .qvw files?

-managing the qlikview users who can see which model --> I dont get that. I think that security is either handled by windows (group a cannot access folder A) or through Qliview server (group A cannot see dimension member A).

Re: Nprinting Vs Publisher

lironbaram — Sun, 06 Sep 2015 11:40:22 GMT

hi george

- yes nprinting can only do one task at the time , so if you have several qlikview models that can mean long reloading process

-regarding alert nprinting also can alert you so it doesn't matter

-nprinting can distribute qvw files via reduce tasks

-publisher allows you to use different sources of users : aD users, custome users (users you create in the server)

so it allows you do manage users from different types

- one more point

in publisher task you can define that if a task fail , it'll try to run it N times before a failure is reported, to kill task after X minutes if it didn't finished

in nprinting you can't do neither ,

so once again you need to decide what you are looking for

Re: Nprinting Vs Publisher

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 11:46:59 GMT

Hi Liron,

The discussion is really helpfull.

Thanks

Sattya

Re: Nprinting Vs Publisher

lironbaram — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 06:21:48 GMT

hi Sattya

i am glad this discussion is helpful

if you have any other questions

feel free to ask

Re: Nprinting Vs Publisher

Thu, 17 Sep 2015 13:04:48 GMT

Hello Liron!

Is it possible to launch a several task (reproduce reports) at the same time? Or any way it will be execute one by one? I have NPrinting 16

Thank you in advance

Julia

Re: Nprinting Vs Publisher

lironbaram — Fri, 18 Sep 2015 08:06:38 GMT

hi julia

currently nprinting server only executes one task at a time

so if you want run some tasks simultaneously you need several nprinting servers