topic Re: QlikView Publisher Not Sending Alerts in QlikView

QlikView Publisher Not Sending Alerts

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

Hi there,

I have a document hosted and reloading on QlikView Publisher (x64 11.20.12235.0 11.2 SR5) which has an alert set up in it. When the trigger condition is true no alert email is sent out by Publisher.

I've checked all of the obvious things; The app sends alerts correctly when reloaded in the Desktop. The 'Batch' tick box is ticked in the Alert set up. The SMTP set up in Publisher is correct - and alerts on reload failures send correctly. The same app hosted on a different server (QlikView Server, not Publisher) sends alerts fine.

Has anyone else seen this behaviour? Any suggestions?

Steve

Re: QlikView Publisher Not Sending Alerts

Chris_Rice — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 12:20:20 GMT

I'm not entirely sure, but it seems to be related to the fact that Pub is running the reload. Try setting it up as a Supporting Task instead as that can use qv.exe to run the reload and you should be able to get the desired result.

Re: QlikView Publisher Not Sending Alerts

sudeepkm — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 12:58:53 GMT

do you have any delays setup. Is it an onPostReload type alert.

I think the SMTP server might not be able to send emails to the recipients. Are there any firewall restrictions or sending mail restrictions applied for that Sender.

Re: QlikView Publisher Not Sending Alerts

stevedark — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 14:53:57 GMT

Hi Chris,

I know of ways of working around this - but I am keen that Alerts work as they should do. If run as a supporting task from qv.exe the error reporting on failed reloads will not work correctly.

Steve

Re: QlikView Publisher Not Sending Alerts

stevedark — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 14:55:22 GMT

Hi Sudeep,

It's an alert (rather than something that runs as a trigger) and it is set to run after reload.

The SMTP settings are correct - as failure emails are sent correctly from the server. This leads me to believe that there are no SMTP / firewall issues.

Steve

Re: QlikView Publisher Not Sending Alerts

Bill_Britt — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 13:01:12 GMT

Hi Steve,

This might be a bug. Can you try the below and see if it works? If it does, then the bug was fixed in 11.20 SR6.

Work around:

To enable username/password (ESMTP - AUTH LOGIN) authentication mode for the qvb.exe process add the following key to the settings.ini configuration file located in “C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Roaming\QlikTech\QlikViewBatch” and/or “C:\ProgramData\QlikTech\QlikViewBatch”:

SMTP_Authmethod = 2

Explanation:

SMTP_Authmethod = 0 (No authentication)

SMTP_Authmethod = 1 (CRAM MD5)

SMTP_Authmethod = 2 (AUTH LOGIN)

SMTP_Authmethod = 3 (AUTH PLAIN)

SMTP_Authmethod = 4 (NTLM

Bill

Re: QlikView Publisher Not Sending Alerts

stevedark — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 20:06:30 GMT

Hi Bill,

Unfortunately I will not be able to make this change on the production server where the issue is occurring. I will see if the same problem is manifesting itself on another server in that environment, and whether that config change fixes it.

I will post back when I make any progress.

Many thanks for your assistance.

Cheers,

Steve

Re: QlikView Publisher Not Sending Alerts

barryharmsen — Mon, 11 Aug 2014 19:38:20 GMT

Thanks Bill Britt! I ran into the same problem on 11.20 SR5, adding SMTP_Authmethod=2 solved it for me. Note that it didn't work when I left the spaces around the equal sign (SMTP_Authmethod = 2).

Re: QlikView Publisher Not Sending Alerts

Tue, 02 Dec 2014 16:13:17 GMT

Did you figure this out?

Re: QlikView Publisher Not Sending Alerts

stevedark — Tue, 02 Dec 2014 17:44:41 GMT

Yes - it was a bug with SR5 / SR6, if you upgrade to the latest version you should be fine.

Steve