topic Open Server documents via Browser in QlikView

Open Server documents via Browser

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:19:17 GMT

Hi all,

we have a QV application accessible by clients via Access Point (QV Server Version 9).

Via this application, we need to distribute some files - e.g. pdf or ppt-files, associated with the analysis data. These files are stored on the server.

We now face the problem, when a client tries to open the files, they get an error message "failed to open document" because the client tries to open the document at the path which refers to the server path, where the documents are stored.

Is there any possibility to get this working or do we need to upload the files to a DMS for instance and link them in QV? Thanks for any help on this!

Open Server documents via Browser

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:19:56 GMT

Is it a UNC path?

Open Server documents via Browser

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 12:28:18 GMT

Yes, the path looks like this:

..\..\..\..\QV_Nutzdaten\T\ExterneQuellen\Export\Attach\090044dd8011c725\testdocument.pdf

I set the folder properties of the folder which contains the document to "share with everyone", but this did not help.

When I try to open it from QV Desktop (on the server machine) it works fine.

Any hints?

Open Server documents via Browser

erichshiino — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 14:10:22 GMT

Did you try to use an absolute location?

\\servername\folder\file.ext ?

Open Server documents via Browser

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:05:14 GMT

Yes, this works, thank you!