topic External Programs in Qlikview 9 Freezes Server in QlikView https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/External-Programs-in-Qlikview-9-Freezes-Server/m-p/160995#M1288303 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I'm trying to test an external program that will eventually email notifications to users when a refresh is finished. Currently I'm just testing a batch file named c:\test.bat that copies a file c:\test.txt to c:\test2.txt. Running the bat file from the command line works fine. But when I try to test run the External Program it just freezes, a Tokens.xml document appears in the c:\ directory and the web browser shows an hour glass and doesn't let me click any where else on the webpage? I have to restart all the services in order to get the web page to start responding again.</P><P>Has anyone else tried to use external programs?</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:19:17 GMT 2026-01-26T18:19:17Z External Programs in Qlikview 9 Freezes Server https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/External-Programs-in-Qlikview-9-Freezes-Server/m-p/160995#M1288303 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I'm trying to test an external program that will eventually email notifications to users when a refresh is finished. Currently I'm just testing a batch file named c:\test.bat that copies a file c:\test.txt to c:\test2.txt. Running the bat file from the command line works fine. But when I try to test run the External Program it just freezes, a Tokens.xml document appears in the c:\ directory and the web browser shows an hour glass and doesn't let me click any where else on the webpage? I have to restart all the services in order to get the web page to start responding again.</P><P>Has anyone else tried to use external programs?</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:19:17 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/External-Programs-in-Qlikview-9-Freezes-Server/m-p/160995#M1288303 2026-01-26T18:19:17Z External Programs in Qlikview 9 Freezes Server https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/External-Programs-in-Qlikview-9-Freezes-Server/m-p/160996#M1288309 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P>I know that this won't solve the basic problem (namely why an external batch freezes the server - if it really IS the server an not the browser ...), but if it's just for notification of users after a reload, perhaps you could (and should?) use the "Alert"-feature (On Post Reload). Maybe that's sufficient for your purposes.</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:52:18 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/External-Programs-in-Qlikview-9-Freezes-Server/m-p/160996#M1288309 biester 2009-08-18T00:52:18Z