topic Re: [ASK] how to use document CAL properly? in QlikView

[ASK] how to use document CAL properly?

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:19:17 GMT

hello qlikview world..

i still don't have a clear explanation about named cal n document cal

i know to add more user to named cal

QMC -> Licenses -> CAL -> add new user then assign CAL

and also i know how to add document CAL to qlikview document in qlikview server

QMC -> user documents -> document CAL -> tipe number of doc cal wanna use -> add user then assign CAL

and also i need to do the step like add more user in CAL to make document able to open eventho i already add doc cal

n my question,,how to use doc cal properly?

many thx

[ASK] how to use document CAL properly?

SunilChauhan — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 09:12:36 GMT

one person can used one document cal or document cal is assign to one person at time.

but named cal you can suffle after use of first user.

if u want someone touse independently then document cal is better option

for ex: your Ceo want to access data uninteruptable.

then document cal is better.

but u can assign named cal on basis of time period or used by first user

[ASK] how to use document CAL properly?

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 09:27:25 GMT

sorry Sunil

but i still don't get it clear

is it mean, that we still have to add more user in QMC->licenses->CAL ? even just for using 1 doc cal?

is there any tech documentation to implement doc user / named user?

[ASK] how to use document CAL properly?

SunilChauhan — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:11:41 GMT

see the basic difference

Named User CAL

•Based on User or Machine Identity

•Can access unlimited QlikView Documents on 1 QlikView Server

•User will always have access to QlikView Documents

DOC CAL

•Allows one user to open one Document

•License is perpetual

•License is associated with a Document and user

•Sold in increments of 100

[ASK] how to use document CAL properly?

SunilChauhan — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:16:35 GMT

Named Cal
Commonly deployed for users within an organization that need
dedicated access to QlikView

Document CAL:
Commonly deployed for organizations that have QlikView deployed
departmentally and users within each department only need access to specific QlikView documents

Re: [ASK] how to use document CAL properly?

Fri, 30 Aug 2013 03:47:23 GMT

does it means that

If I need to use 10 documents in server

while using document-Cal I need 10 cals,

if 2 people need to use them, they need 20 document-cals?

while using Name-Cal I need only 1 cals?

if 2 people need to use them all, then only need 2 cals?

Re: [ASK] how to use document CAL properly?

rajeshvaswani77 — Fri, 30 Aug 2013 05:09:17 GMT

Name cal's are more expensive then doc cals, you need to keep this in mind. There is dynamic cal allocation. Once the doc cals are exceeded then the session cal will kick-in at that point of time.

thanks,

Rajesh Vaswani

Re: [ASK] how to use document CAL properly?

Fri, 30 Aug 2013 05:18:31 GMT

You can use user cals in dynamic mode, i have used this in one of the client base

then one user logout the other user will be able to access any on the document available and if all the cals are in use then the other use trying to access will be getting an error ' User cal not available '

Re: [ASK] how to use document CAL properly?

Fri, 30 Aug 2013 05:50:49 GMT

So 1 name cal = right for 1 person to open all document

while 1 document cal = right for 1 person to open 1 specific document?

Re: Re: [ASK] how to use document CAL properly?

rajeshvaswani77 — Fri, 30 Aug 2013 05:58:31 GMT

Yes right. Please see attached PDF that has all the details.

thanks,

Rajesh Vaswani

Re: Re: [ASK] how to use document CAL properly?

Emmanuelle__Bustos — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 15:41:35 GMT

Exactly!

Re: [ASK] how to use document CAL properly?

Thu, 24 Oct 2013 17:16:55 GMT

Dear All,

I hope this makes things clearer?

QlikView checks for licenses in the following order:
Named Cal
Document Cal
Session Cal
Usage Cal

You may have a mixture of the above licenses or only some of them, depending upon which QlikView product you are using and which version you are using.

Named Cal (assigned to a specific user ) can open and work on QlikView applications (documents) on and offline and open as many documents as they wish (security allowing) - the license can be psychically installed on a specific machine (developers machine maybe) , or leased (not allowed in test environment) for 30 days after which, the users needs to access QlikView on the server to renew their license.

Doc Cal allows 1 user to open one application or one document (online only), they can be in the document for as long as they wish, but once they close the document, the document license is gone (its goes back into a pool of Documents Cal ). If you open a different application, you use another document cal.

Session Cal are similar but not identical to Named Cal (these are for rolling access to many QlikView applications (they work like a named CAL except, they are not attached to a specific user) I have only seen these used on-line. If you need to support 10 concurrent users accessing 5 QlikView applications, however, the 10 concurrent users change all the time, you could use 10 session Cal to support these users.

Usage Cal are your anyone else who occasionally needs to access a specific document maybe a month end or year end. You could use these CAL to catch anyone, who doesn't have any of the above licenses to provide access to QlikView.

Named and Doc Cal can be granted/allocated to specific users through the QMC. Alternatively, you can setup dynamically allocated Cal (Named or Document) , as a user logs in the receive a license automatically (not in TEST environment) . Some customer like to grant access to Named Cal to specific users (developers, super users document chained application users etc), then provide document Cal to the users automatically from the pool.

I hope this helps ?

Thanks Steve