topic Re: how to create Qlikview Publisher document administrators in QlikView

how to create Qlikview Publisher document administrators

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

I found several links about this and decades-old questions, but no clear step by step process. Reading the help at:

https://help.qlik.com/en-US/qlikview/May2022/Subsystems/QMC/Content/QV_QMC/QMC_PublisherDocumentAdministrators.htm

We have given some users server administrator permissions so they can reload/republish their own dashboards to the access point. I want to remove them from that group and set them up as Document Administrators for the folders they are authorized to use. I want to do the minimal necessary so that these users are able to log on to the qmc and reload their dashboards manually without messing up anything else. 🙂

When I got to the QMC I find that no folders have been set up; we just have the document root. Do I need to...

have a local AD group on the QlikView server called "Document Administrators" in addition the the QlikView Administrators group? - is there anything to do outside of the qmc as a prerequisite?

can I just start adding folders or will this disrupt the current deployments? I don't want to create a new folder and have it change the urls for dashboards that are already deployed in those folders under document root.

Thanks

Re: how to create Qlikview Publisher document administrators

Chip_Matejowsky — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 12:18:35 GMT

Hi @daveatkins,

Have a look at the Qlik Support article How to set up QlikView Document Administrators.

Best Regards

Re: how to create Qlikview Publisher document administrators

daveatkins — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 12:35:54 GMT

that page says:

Document Administrators can manage User Documents. They cannot schedule reloads or distributions.

So that sounds like this is not the right role for what I need? How do you set it up so users can reload their own documents on the server? They just need to execute the existing reload task in the qmc, not create, edit, change, etc.

Re: how to create Qlikview Publisher document administrators

daveatkins — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 12:38:13 GMT

the "problem" we have is that when someone set this up, they could not figure out how to do it, so they made the end user an administrator. I want to lock down the server. If I do that...then we will be asking users to open tickets in the helpdesk or paging engineers to have them click on the play button in the qmc.

Re: how to create Qlikview Publisher document administrators

daveatkins — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 12:48:01 GMT

oops, sorry, reading further the page says how to configure the source document admins