topic Re: Access Point security in QlikView

Access Point security

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

I have done the section access implementation through Excel , now i want that authentication on access point..

pls any one suggest me how can i do that.

Re: Access Point security

SunilChauhan — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 08:18:36 GMT

can you please be bit more clear on this.

as if you have applied setting @ server then its already NTFS or DMS set.

Re: Access Point security

abhaysingh — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 08:21:59 GMT

NTFS , it is not allowing to shift to DMS

Re: Access Point security

abhaysingh — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 08:23:18 GMT

i have an excel file , through which i have done section access at application level. i want that security should work on access point as well..

Re: Access Point security

SunilChauhan — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 08:46:17 GMT

chart checked this

document settings-> open->intial data reduction based on section access

-> check it

and also check strict Exclusion

Re: Access Point security

abhaysingh — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 08:57:02 GMT

i have done all this and it is working fine,,,

i need help in management console...where i can implement security for access point

Re: Access Point security

Luis_Cortizo — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 08:57:58 GMT

The Section Access is a data security mechanism, not an authorization mechanism, so that's not something you can replicate.

May it be that you want to rely the authorization mechanism on the section access of your documents?.

In that case, in your scenario, the only option I can think of is to authorize every user in the system and use the "Filter AccessPoint Document List Based on Section Access" option that you may find at the bottom of the Server tab of the Document Properties.

Using that, every user can potentially see very QlikView application on the AccessPoint, but only the applications in which the user is included in the Section Access will appear.

Would that help?.

Hope it helps.

Best regards.

Re: Access Point security

nilesh_gangurde — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 08:58:37 GMT

please post your section access file here.

-Nilesh

Re: Access Point security

Luis_Cortizo — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 08:59:43 GMT

"i need help in management console...where i can implement security for access point"

Do you want to authorize with section access or are you looking for an authorization mechanism?.

In you case, as far as you use NTFS authorization, is Windows whom is controlling which QlikView documents can the user see and which don't.

Just assign Windows permissions to the files on its properties and you're good to go

Re: Access Point security

abhaysingh — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 09:02:22 GMT

thanks for your help.........

but what i want is when i m opening the application on access point the same security should work on access point level

Re: Access Point security

nilesh_gangurde — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 09:05:15 GMT

I think you need to reduce the data based on the section access file.

-Nilesh

Re: Access Point security

Luis_Cortizo — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 09:07:04 GMT

I don't understand your question, sorry.

What are you expecting to happen when your users access you AccessPoint.

By default:

- The Windows user name should appear in the Welcome User in case the WebServer is using NTLM (single sign-on with the user windows login account).

- The user should be able to see those documents for which he or she is authorized (in your case as you're using NTFS as the authorization security mechanism they will see only those documents in which they are included on the windows file permissions).

- When a user tries to open a document on the AccessPoint the Section Access is applied either checking the NTNAME either asking for user and password.

Is that correct?

In any case, I believe this link may be useful:

http://community.qlik.com/blogs/qlikviewdesignblog/2014/01/07/authentication-and-authorization

Best regards.

Re: Access Point security

abhaysingh — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 09:30:47 GMT

yes you are correct,,,,

but we dont have NTNAME ,, in that case what can i do???

Re: Access Point security

Luis_Cortizo — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 09:34:58 GMT

The QlikView document will ask for a User Name and a Password and they will need to introduce manually user and password.

Re: Access Point security

abhaysingh — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 09:37:55 GMT

where i need to put it manually....

@ section access ? or management console?

Re: Access Point security

Luis_Cortizo — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 09:43:25 GMT

What do you want to put where?.

If you implement a Section Access the users will need to provide a user name and a password that match the ones on your section access.

If you don't you just rely authorization on Windows.