topic Re: Asking for password while no section access in the script in QlikView

Asking for password while no section access in the script

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:19:17 GMT

HI all,

I'v created a QlikView application and it asks for a username & password when it's opened on the server. (I don't mean the first box where you need your Active Directory username & password)

However there is no Section Access in the script. Also no hidden scripts available.

Please advise. Are there any other hidden options?

Best regards,
Arjan

Re: Asking for password while no section access in the script

Wed, 18 Dec 2013 14:09:07 GMT

Have you set up authentication and security correctly in the QV Management Console, both in the QlikView Server and Webserver? Is it only happening for that QlikView document or does it happen in all of them? Does the document have section access configured in the hidden script (Script Editor --> File)? Does the problem occur both when opening the app in the Ajax (web) client and using the desktop app?

Re: Asking for password while no section access in the script

swuehl — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 14:09:52 GMT

Maybe a binary load statement?

Re: Asking for password while no section access in the script

Wed, 18 Dec 2013 14:12:32 GMT

Random thoughts....

* are the tick boxes on the opening tab of the document properties ticked that QlikView should be checking security?

* did the document have Section Access in it at one point... personally I have found that QlikView does seem to remember previous Section Access even after you remove all data, a refresh seems to be needed to remove the SA data?

* is the security on the server set to be Windows and is this stopping you somehow?

As I said some random thoughts (basically things I would start to look at if I had the problem)

Re: Asking for password while no section access in the script

Wed, 18 Dec 2013 14:31:24 GMT

First of all thank you for the quick response..

It only happens for one application. There is no hidden script and it only occurs on the webserver. Wuth AJAX & IEpl ugin. However on the client I don't get any box.

Re: Asking for password while no section access in the script

Wed, 18 Dec 2013 14:31:55 GMT

No binary load statement in the script. Thanks anyway.

Re: Asking for password while no section access in the script

Wed, 18 Dec 2013 14:37:23 GMT

What do you mean with refresh? I assume it's not the refresh of data but some other refresh.

Can you please explain it?

* All tick boxes are checked on the security tab of the sheet. So the users should have access, right ?

* It should didn't have had a section access as far as I know.

* The security on the server works fine for all other applications.

Re: Asking for password while no section access in the script

jerrysvensson — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 14:50:56 GMT

Can you take a print screen and add it here?

Re: Asking for password while no section access in the script

Wed, 18 Dec 2013 14:53:45 GMT

Re: Asking for password while no section access in the script

jerrysvensson — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 15:06:57 GMT

Strange, it looks exactly like a Section Access login dialog.

Simplest solution is to create a new app and copy the script and layout from this one.

Re: Asking for password while no section access in the script

Wed, 18 Dec 2013 15:08:14 GMT

What version of QV are you running? There was a bug in v8.5

Re: Asking for password while no section access in the script

Wed, 18 Dec 2013 15:09:42 GMT

Also make sure that "strict exclusion" is not turned on:

Re: Asking for password while no section access in the script

Wed, 18 Dec 2013 15:11:49 GMT

Hi,

What I have done in the past is move a document with Section Access (based on data within a database) from one environment to another. What I have found is that when I select to remove all data from the document (before moving it) that the section access data still seems to remain in the document.

Therefore I normally have to remove the section access from the loading process and refresh the document (via a normal refresh) so that the section access data is removed.

I guess it is a security thing that when you remove all the data that the security still remains but it causes me problems when I try to do this.

My thought were that maybe you had had section access (and no longer needed it) or that you had used a document (which had had section access) as a starting point in your document development.

Regarding the tick boxes you need to open the document and go to Settings --> Document Properties.... --> Opening (Tab) and make sure that the following are unticked:

* Initial Data Reduction Bases on Section Access

* Strict Exclusion

* Initial Selection Based on Section Access

* Prohibit Binary Load

The box that you have screen shot looks (to my eyes) like the QV document wanting security and not finding it, but at the same time if you are logging in via Access Point (and you are on QV 11) that is quite good at hiding documents you cannot access.

Finally when you open something locally (even when it has Section Access) the fact you are opening it locally seems to override the Section Access and you can open the document.

Re: Asking for password while no section access in the script

Wed, 18 Dec 2013 15:14:32 GMT

I'm running QV SR2 version 10 on both the client and server.

Re: Asking for password while no section access in the script

Wed, 18 Dec 2013 15:17:25 GMT

This checkbox seems to be on. I'll have a look at this. Thanks! Hopefully it works. I'll let you (and the other forum users) know if it's working.

Re: Asking for password while no section access in the script

Wed, 18 Dec 2013 15:18:51 GMT

Thanks.. I'll have a look at it with the hints you gave above.