topic Power Tools - Shared File Viewer in QlikView

Power Tools - Shared File Viewer

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:19:17 GMT

There are bookmarks in the file with $LASTKNOWNSTATE, can anyone enlighten me when these get created and how they are used?

Re: Power Tools - Shared File Viewer

Bill_Britt — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 12:45:36 GMT

These are used for session recovery.

Re: Power Tools - Shared File Viewer

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 15:06:29 GMT

The issue seems to be they hang around indefinately, is there a setting that tells the server when to purge them?

Re: Power Tools - Shared File Viewer

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 15:35:39 GMT

The issue is the .shared file keeps growing. The $LASTKNOWNSTATE records do not seem to be reset with a new session.

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Re: Power Tools - Shared File Viewer

rwunderlich — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 16:24:39 GMT

There is an option available in QV11 and QV10 SR5 (not yet released) to expire temporary bookmarks. Haven't tested yet to see if it deletes the session recovery bookmarks.

There is an article in the Knowledge Base titled "Deleting Temp Bookmarks.pdf" that explains the option.

-Rob

Re: Power Tools - Shared File Viewer

Bill_Britt — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 21:03:29 GMT

To enable the deletion of temporary bookmarks, a setting needs to be activated in QlikView Server. Its value is a timeout value indicating how many days each temporary bookmark will be kept from its time of creation.

This setting is available in the following versions:

QlikView Server 10 SR5 and later
QlikView Server 11 SR1 and later

To enable this setting, do the following:

In the Windows Services Management console, stop the QlikView Server service (QVS.exe)
Locate the Settings.ini configuration file for QlikView Server. It is by default located in the application data folders for QlikView, which can be either of the following two locations:
1. Windows Server 2003: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\QlikTech\QlikViewServer
2. Windows Server 2008: C:\ProgramData\QlikTech\QlikViewServer
Open the Settings.ini file in a text editor
Located the node [Settings 7] in the file. Directly under that, add the following row, where N is the timeout value (integer; days before bookmark is deleted): ServerTempBookmarkDayTimeout=N
Save and close the Settings.ini file
In the Windows Services Management console, start the QlikView Server service (QVS.exe)

Note: Removing temporary bookmarks from the .shared file will not decrease the size of the .shared file. This is by design and a consequence of its binary format. To shrink/defrag .shared files, please visit QlikView QlikCommunity (http://www.qlik.com) and look into the Power Tools for QlikView suite and the tool Shared File Viewer.

Re: Power Tools - Shared File Viewer

Brett_Bleess — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 21:54:57 GMT

The Article number is 000002746.

Re: Power Tools - Shared File Viewer

Thu, 10 Mar 2016 17:40:06 GMT

Hi Bill,

Thanks a lot for this info. I have a question - if the setting ServerTempBookmarkDayTimeout=N is enabled on server, will .shared file size get reduced by server after N days or will it remain same?

Thanks,

Anosh

Re: Power Tools - Shared File Viewer

Bill_Britt — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 18:14:02 GMT

HI,

No, according to the notes:

Note: Removing temporary bookmarks from the .shared file will not decrease the size of the .shared file. This is by design and a consequence of its binary format.

Bill

Re: Power Tools - Shared File Viewer

Thu, 10 Mar 2016 18:20:04 GMT

Thanks Bill.

Re: Power Tools - Shared File Viewer

Thu, 10 Mar 2016 22:02:31 GMT

Hi Bill,

Our temporary bookmarks are getting deleted after certain days even thought we haven't enabled this setting (ServerTempBookmarkDayTimeout ) in Qlikview server. What could be the possible reason?

Thanks,

Anosh

Re: Power Tools - Shared File Viewer

Bill_Britt — Fri, 11 Mar 2016 12:13:58 GMT

The bookmarks will by default be deleted from the .shared file after 7 days, counting down from it's "last used" timestamp. The setting is if you want to keep them longer or shorter.

Bill