topic External Task - starting a batch file in QlikView

External Task - starting a batch file

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:19:17 GMT

Hi,

I want to execute an a batch file via external task in QlikView Management Console.
My Command line statement is the following: "C:\Excel Export\QV_Excel_Export.exe" ID01

When executing this via CMD Command Line, it works fine - no problems.
When starting this task via QlikView Management Console nothing happens and the task shows a "Warning".

Heres the log:

(2010-07-30 07:33:54) Information: Executing ClusterID=1, QDSID=11b39504-12b5-8aaf-3b89-ca25b856e474QDSMain.ExternalProgramTask
(2010-07-30 07:33:54) Information: Starting task "Excel Test Task" (Attempt 1 of 1)
(2010-07-30 07:33:54) Information: Max run time: 1.00:00:00
(2010-07-30 07:33:54) Information: Executing "C:\Excel Export\QV_Excel_Export.exe" ID01
(2010-07-30
 07:33:54) Information: Executing commandline: "C:\Excel
Export\QV_Excel_Export.exe ID01" in folder "C:\Excel Export".
(2010-07-30 07:34:01) Warning: Process exited with non zero exit code: -532459699 at 7/30/2010 7:34:01 AM
(2010-07-30 07:34:01) Information: Process exited with exit code: -532459699 at 7/30/2010 7:34:01 AM
(2010-07-30 07:34:01) Warning: The task "Excel Test Task" finished with warnings. WarningCount=1
Really need help. It's sort of strange because when entering my command line in via "CMD" it works fine.
Thanks!

External Task - starting a batch file

vgutkovsky — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:19:22 GMT

Try saving the commands as a .bat file and referencing the .bat file in the External Task (instead of putting the commands directly in the task).

Regards,

External Task - starting a batch file

StefanBackstrand — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 13:07:33 GMT

If you are on a Service Release before SR5, I would say that you need to upgrade if you see this kind of errors in when running external tasks.

External Task - starting a batch file

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 14:50:30 GMT

We are switching to SR5 soon.
Now we are using SR3. We already have a test server with SR5 now.
I tryed it also with the test server and sometimes it gives me the error again.

But it seems to work better with SR5 now.

Thanks for your help guys!