topic QlikView 9 PDF Report Distributor in QlikView

QlikView 9 PDF Report Distributor

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

In QlikView 9 we can now publish QlikView Reports to pdf and have them looped and reduced and emailed to the QlikView user community which is a long awaited new feature. Does anybody know definitively whether we can distribute these pdf reports to non-QlikView users / license holders...in other words they would simply consume the pdf report attached to their email but never logon to the QlikView Server. I am assuming that this can be done but would like to know for sure.

Regards

John H

QlikView 9 PDF Report Distributor

rwunderlich — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 06:08:47 GMT

You can distribute to anyone or anywhere. The document is a standard PDF. It has static content only. There is no connection made to the QV server when the PDF is opened.

-Rob

QlikView 9 PDF Report Distributor

Sat, 27 Mar 2010 09:51:36 GMT

Im trying to develop an application that need to meet similar requirements. Have you already tried using this feature? I just have some questions which are quite unclear to me.

Will it be able to handle a scheduled automatic sending of email report attachment (pdf) to a limited number of external Users (Not all users)

i.e., Given there will be another system that maintains the User accounts with the information of email and status if the user has to be sent an email attachment, can this information be used by Qlikview when sending out the PDF Report Attachments - as well as reduce the data depending on the user type (defined by a Group where user belongs)?

Example:

USER	EMAIL	GROUP	Send Email PDF Attachment
JPL	jpl@xyz.com	Regional Director	N
USR1	user@xyz.com	Country Manager	N
USR2	usr2@xyz.com	Store Mgr	Y

If there will be a web page outside Qlikview that will allow users to download generated static PDF reports, how can the generation of static reports be integrated with Qlikview? Is this also covered by the PDF Distributor?

I would appreciate your help sir. Thanks in advance.

QlikView 9 PDF Report Distributor

Bill_Britt — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 17:27:37 GMT

Please not this is an addon feature to Publisher. You pay for the licenses to distribute the PDF and so you have purchased the license for the users that will get the PDF.

QlikView 9 PDF Report Distributor

Sun, 28 Mar 2010 06:22:57 GMT

Thanks for noting that. Does that mean 1 user cal for every email recipient? Given we have the license for the pdf distributor, will it be able to handle the tasks mentioned above?

QlikView 9 PDF Report Distributor

Tue, 16 Nov 2010 13:14:19 GMT

Can any one please guide me pdf report distributor steps...

QlikView 9 PDF Report Distributor

danielrozental — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 02:10:36 GMT

I believe you can only distribute files to AD users but they don't need to have an assigned CAL.

QlikView 9 PDF Report Distributor

rwunderlich — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 06:33:49 GMT

It's correct that you can only email to usernames that are in your directory (AD if that's what you're using). But the email address associated with that "user" can be an mail group that contains email addresses outside your domain.

-Rob

QlikView 9 PDF Report Distributor

Wed, 17 Nov 2010 09:22:32 GMT

Thanks Rob,

Incase if we are not using Active directory . The functionality is not applicable.Please correct me if i am wrong.

QlikView 9 PDF Report Distributor

danielrozental — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:02:37 GMT

No, as Rob says, you can use it with other directory services or even with QlikView custom users.