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Reading .meta file into Qlikview

lblancher — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:19:17 GMT

Hello,

I am currently managing a large number of users using the QEMC via Document Authorization. Is there a way to read the .meta file into Qlikview so i can view the user list that is stored inside?

I am currently using Qlikview 9.0 SR6 in DMS mode.

If I am unable to read the .meta file directly into Qlikview, does anyone know what format the file is stored in?

Lucas Blancher

BizXcel Inc.

Reading .meta file into Qlikview

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 10:02:59 GMT

Hi,

Get the original authorization data from QVPR XML files, or the QVPR database .

-Alex

www.snowflakejoins.com

Reading .meta file into Qlikview

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 10:05:23 GMT

You might want to look also at zipped QVPR files. For example QVW file might be in valid use even if someone deleted the task in QEMC .

-Alex

www.snowflakejoins.com

Reading .meta file into Qlikview

lblancher — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 13:14:41 GMT

HI Alex,

It appears that the QVPR files are related to publishers configuration. Our QVS server is not running publisher at the moment, all users are configured manually via Documents >> User Documents >> {Document Name} >> Authorization.

Lucas

Reading .meta file into Qlikview

danielrozental — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 17:58:14 GMT

You should be able to query the assigned authorizations through the server API, you would have to write a vbscript or similar code to do that.

I don't believe you can read .meta files as they are binary files.

Reading .meta file into Qlikview

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:32:39 GMT

Publisher stored "recipients" for the purpose of distribuion tasks

-Alex

Reading .meta file into Qlikview

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:35:40 GMT

You can't read the meta files. But you can read the QVS logs, and make a list of all accounts who successfully opened each file in the last 6 months .

This is not complete , but a good approximation of the security of active users.

-Alex

Reading .meta file into Qlikview

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:53:17 GMT

I manage to read the META-files.

I am lucky that all userid starts with letter Q.

Here is how I done it.

LOAD
'Finance_Reporting' as Document,
@1 as User

FROM

(txt, codepage is 1252, no labels, delimiter is spaces, msq, filters(
Transpose()
))
Where left(@1,1) = 'Q';

Regards

Anders

Reading .meta file into Qlikview

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 10:02:59 GMT

Cool 🙂

You assume there is nothing more in that file, except usernames starting with Q . There is also the name of the category where the QVW file belongs to. You need to handle those as well.

-Alex

Reading .meta file into Qlikview

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 10:17:24 GMT

I made a inline table with document and Category to handle that.

Regards

Anders

Re: Reading .meta file into Qlikview

Thu, 31 Jul 2014 20:33:43 GMT

Hello All,

I am reading through meta files to get groups associated with each dashboard using the above code and I am unable to read through few meta files. The code being used seems to skip the whole file and not retrieve anything. Iformation is retrieved from majority of files but I am facing this issue with few files.

Did you face similar issue? Could anyone help with reading the .meta files?

Thanks!

Re: Reading .meta file into Qlikview

Mon, 13 Apr 2015 16:45:11 GMT

I know that this is an old post but I stumbled across it while looking for the same information.

The newest version of the SharedFileViewer in the QlikView Power Tools (found on this site) allows you to read the meta files. You can even extract information from the meta file and export it to an XML file and then import it into a QVW.

The tool offers a console mode which would allow you to do this via command line as well. A syntax example would be: C:\SharedFileViewer\QvSharedFileViewer.exe "C:\QVSourceDocuments\Document.qvw.meta" -ExportAll "C:\Temp\Document.XML"

Re: Reading .meta file into Qlikview

Anonymous — Thu, 06 Aug 2015 14:35:26 GMT

This has been very useful for me as we also prefix user names with domains, so I am able to search for certain strings. However, I have a case whereby the number of users assigned to a specific document is so great that I believe the data is being truncated when being loaded in and we're therefore missing some of the users listed later in the file.

Have you come across this and if so, have you found a way to prevent the truncation?

Re: Reading .meta file into Qlikview

ni_avoss — Thu, 19 May 2016 12:08:05 GMT

thanks, really helpful

Re: Reading .meta file into Qlikview

b_garside — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 15:33:10 GMT

Where did you get the Commands for the Tool? are there any examples how to use the console mode. IM not having much luck.

Re: Reading .meta file into Qlikview

b_garside — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 16:07:31 GMT

Found them here https://community.qlik.com/docs/DOC-5903#comment-16160:

Examples:

QvSharedFileViewer.exe "C:\Documents\MyDocFile.shared" -EXPORTALL"C:\Documents\MyDocFile-Objects.xml"

QvSharedFileViewer.exe "C:\Documents\MyDocFile.shared" -EXPORTBOOKMARKS "C:\Documents\MyDocFile-Bookmarks.xml"

Re: Reading .meta file into Qlikview

kerkying — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 10:47:06 GMT

Hi Daniel, do you know which of the server API are we referring to?