topic New QV11 Test Servers doing my head in in QlikView

New QV11 Test Servers doing my head in

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:19:17 GMT

This is more of a {rant} at QlikTech than a question.

I have over the past few months listened with great enthusiasm to Donald Farmer's various speeches about "QV.Next" and how it's going to be gorgeous and beautiful etc

I then installed a QV11 test server at a client site.

Unlike QV10, the words TEST in huge letters appear all over the shop, completely obsuring many of the objects within the applications. Amongst other things, this makes "TESTING" a complete nightmare... users can't see dimension attributes, have little or no idea half the time about what they are qliking on, and the whole appearance is pretty dreadful. Certainly not georgeous or beautiful!!

C'mon guys - I know you have to differentiate between non-PROD and PROD environments and stop people taking the P#SS out of licensing rules, but surely in this day & age there is a better solution than obscuring pretty much everything with a big fat TEST.

Or have I missed a switch or trick somewhere and this can be made more gorgeous?

Regards,

Will

Re: New QV11 Test Servers doing my head in

Miguel_Angel_Baeyens — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:30:24 GMT

Hello Will,

The Test Edition license actually adds a watermark "Test" to the caption of the objects. Make sure you are running the most recent release of QlikView 11 (11282) and if that keeps happening or you already are running that version, I'd strongly recommend to contact your QlikView sales rep or partner manager if not support@qlik.com themselves so they can check if that's the expected behaviour or there might be any issues in the CSS or JS QlikView files (I haven't tested but I'd bet on the latter).

As a side note and just to clarify, QV.Next is not QV11, but the version after 11.

Hope that helps.

Miguel

Re: New QV11 Test Servers doing my head in

Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:42:40 GMT

Hey Miguel 🙂

As a side note and just to clarify, QV.Next is not QV11, but the version after 11.

I know - I was just commenting on this ugly bit of QV11

So it should just add the Watermark to the object "caption"? - Interesting - on our deployment, this IS the case for listboxes, but for charts, the word TEST is emblazoned right across the chart and legend, making them pretty much unreadable in some circumstances... just wondered if there was a way to limit the watermark to just the object header in charts....

Our version is 11282....

Any other ideas? Thanks for chipping in...

Will

Re: New QV11 Test Servers doing my head in

Miguel_Angel_Baeyens — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:55:38 GMT

Hi Will,

Yes, that's the expected behavior, to add in both the captions and the backgrounds, as long as the data is visible... But I wouldn't bet against some mistakes on CSS styles / browser issues, specifically if you are using the Ajax client. I have not read about this issue in the QlikCommunity, but I guess is not very extended to use the Test Edition license of Server across the QlikCommunity members.

For what it's worth, here you are what the Server Reference Manual says in regards to the test license. Bold is mine.

QlikView Test Server comes in two editions, QlikView EE Test Server and QlikView SBE Test Server, both of which have the same features and limitations as the corresponding production servers. In addition, the watermark “Test” is superimposed on all charts and added to all object captions.

I recall to have seen some pictures of the result in the Test server in some white paper or presentation, but I don't happen to find them.

Hope that makes some sense.

Miguel

Re: New QV11 Test Servers doing my head in

Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:00:17 GMT

Hmmm.. food for thought.

It seems we are seeing "expected behaviour" then.

Unfortunately, the client was not expecting (or particularly happy about) this visual intrusion having paid for a QV test licence. The client (and me) can't see why the visualisations should be impaired when we pay for a test licence, especially since this is not the case on pretty much ALL competing BI software (much of which is often FREE) that I have used...

And also was not the case until they upgraded to QV11....

Re: New QV11 Test Servers doing my head in

Miguel_Angel_Baeyens — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:08:09 GMT

Will,

I understand what you mean. Unfortunately, I don't have a Test Licensed server to play with, so I cannot say if those watermarks seem normal or excessive to me, even in my personal point of view. Although the "Test" should appear in any case -because the idea is definitely differentiate a prod environment from a non prod environment, and this idea comes from a long ago-, as I mentioned do not hesitate to contact QlikView (Sales or rather Support) so they can check that particular client deployment.

Are you experiencing the same with another version QlikView 11 test servers?

Just out of curiosity I'm going to check this with my colleagues, just to see how the test server looks like in different environments, browsers and OSs.

Best,

Miguel

Re: New QV11 Test Servers doing my head in

Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:09:49 GMT

Thanks Miguel.

I'll see if we can check other versions. I do not remember seeing this in QV10 so I think it's a QV11 thing..

Re: New QV11 Test Servers doing my head in

rwunderlich — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 17:13:29 GMT

Will,

I've seen the watermark in QV10 as well. May have been there as far back as QV9, don't recall.

I suppose the watermark exists to keep people from gaming the license. However, I've found an advantage for the customer as well. Test versions frequently have incomplete or older data and in many cases have not been validated -- validation generally being the reason for having a test server. The watermark eliminates confustion between test and production content, especially for exported images.

I do wish the watermark was a little more subtle. It can make it hard to read the contents of charts sometimes.

-Rob

Re: New QV11 Test Servers doing my head in

danielrozental — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 14:45:52 GMT

I just tested this on both QV10 and QV11. There is no watermark using QvPlugin on either version.

QV10 Ajax

QV11 Ajax

Very "subtle" watermark now in Qv11.

Re: New QV11 Test Servers doing my head in

rwunderlich — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 23:32:42 GMT

I just tested a V11 (IR) test server that I have access to. And no chart watermarks on either Ajax or IE. Maybe something else is (not) controlling it? I confirmed this server has a test license.

-Rob

Re: New QV11 Test Servers doing my head in

Qlik_Trigg — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 14:06:38 GMT

There was a bug introduced in V11 whereby the watermark became 'obnoxious'. This is being fixed in SR2 (September), to return the watermark to a more true image as in V10. A patch is available from support if required

Re: New QV11 Test Servers doing my head in

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 14:31:16 GMT

It definitely is more obtrusive now. For example all my my Chart Names now just say @test server. I am trying to figure out why it is not showing the titles with the @test server.

Re: New QV11 Test Servers doing my head in

Bill_Britt — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 20:22:14 GMT

There might be some changes coming to this in a Service release. We will have to wait and see.

Re: New QV11 Test Servers doing my head in

Fri, 03 Aug 2012 07:49:59 GMT

John,

Thanks for your response. I will advise my client to ask for the patch via support.

Good news that it may be fixed in a later SR.

Thanks,

Will

Re: New QV11 Test Servers doing my head in

Tue, 28 Aug 2012 06:54:25 GMT

hello

with test server license on version 11.00.11282.0 there are "@test server" phrase in titles of objects viewing document using IE plugin,using AJAX and using QV client when opening remotely document in server. Only opening locally on server with QV client there is no any "@test server" in document.

Will behaviour change with SR2 ?

Regards

Re: New QV11 Test Servers doing my head in

Bill_Britt — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 16:45:18 GMT

There will always be some form of test in the objects on a server that has a Test license. The problem in the pass was the size and density of the word TEST that was used.

Bill