topic Re: Issues with "refresh" lag per document? in QlikView

Issues with "refresh" lag per document?

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:19:17 GMT

I am having an issue with a several of our dashboards refreshing each time a new filter is selected. Here is a rundown of what we are experiencing:

File Details:

File Size: 43,429 KB

The Data is loaded from another QVW

This file contains a combination of SQL connectionds and to several Dimensional QVD’s. It brings in 4 Snapshotes, today, Last Week, YOY Today, YOY Last Week.

Here is the layout of the dashboard:

ISSUE:

When navigating page to page in the Web verison, performance is fine (esp. after caching). It’s when a filter is applied that it lags. It takes up to 2 mins for a filter to apply if you let it refresh on it’s own.

Here is a Screenshot of the “lag”:

Our workaround currently is to select the filters, and then refresh the browser page, which applies the filter, but this is less than optimal for the user experience.

The desktop file does NOT experience any of these issues, only the web versions.

Please let me know if anyone has experienced similar issues, and any ideas folks may have to solve the issues. Of course feel free to ask further questions if you would like elaboration.

Re: Issues with "refresh" lag per document?

Mon, 10 Mar 2014 17:05:27 GMT

Hi JSwedberg,

Nice design!

Could you check if you have allot of unique value's in some of your data model fields. Document Properties > Tables # Distinct.

If you use allot of Set Analysis calculations you could consider too precalculate some of your expressions in your data model and aggregate it to an higher level.

Can you upload a screenshot from your table viewer?

Re: Issues with "refresh" lag per document?

Mon, 10 Mar 2014 17:15:18 GMT

Hi Jelco,

Thanks for your response!

I definitely use a TON of Set Analysis, that was my first thought as well, and one I am discussing with our BI Data team.

I'm just wondering what you may be thinking of when you are asking about #Distinct? Are you thinking perhaps the data set is too weighty and needs more Distinct values? Just wondering.

I'll try to get a screen of the table view up.

Jon

Re: Issues with "refresh" lag per document?

Mon, 10 Mar 2014 17:22:39 GMT

There are a few things you can look into:

RAM and CPU usage during those selections
Does the user experience this issue all the time or at some random times
What kinda compression are you using for saving the file (High,Medium,None)
As suggested by Jelco where ever possible move calculations to backend
Use where exists to bring in data thats truly needed
Check subset ratio and information density in table viewer
Try miminizing use of if() , count(distinct ), functions in charts

Since you mentioned you are experiencing this only on server might be to do with Server resources. Are there a lot of other apps which large data sets.

You can also check QVS Statistics tab on QEMC or session/performance log files.

Thanks

Re: Issues with "refresh" lag per document?

Mon, 10 Mar 2014 17:51:21 GMT

Thanks Ajay

My hunch is that this is server related as well, as the qvw's themselves move like lightening when being used within the Qlikview Application, and only seem to experience these issues via use of the webserver/ajax/ie plugins.

Our datasets are all pretty large, so that could have affect. Unfortunately I am not the server admin, so I can't get readily at that info. This is all helpful though as it adds things I can review with the team!

Re: Issues with "refresh" lag per document?

Mon, 10 Mar 2014 18:04:38 GMT

Your welcome.

It would help allot to reduce the number of distinct value's in your model if they ain't necessary to use.

For example recordid's or receiptnr's.

Set Analysis is a great tool when using flag's. But when used to often at 1 sheet it impacts the performance allot.

I would suggest to:

- move the calculations to the backend

- Aggregate data (from day to week for example)

- reduce the number of distinct value's

This would do the trick

Re: Issues with "refresh" lag per document?

pablolabbe — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 03:01:28 GMT

Which Qlikview version are you using ? This could be a build issue .