topic Re: Mail with bookmark as a link - life-time of bookmark in QlikView

Mail with bookmark as a link - life-time of bookmark

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:19:17 GMT

Dear Qlik specialists,

a client of us use this functionality (Mail with bookmark as a link) very often to share analysis/filters through different employees (all have access to the dashboard and are authorized to see the data). He spotted now the issue, that these links have a limited life-time. If he tries to open a link (sent by another employee some time ago), the filter aren't set in the dashboard.

In my opinion, it looks like the bookmark is not anymore there (or not anymore valid). Know someone of you the life-time of such a 'temporary' bookmark? And furthermore, is it possible to extend this life-time?

Any feedback is highly appreciated.

Re: Mail with bookmark as a link - life-time of bookmark

marcus_sommer — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 11:48:32 GMT

I think these server-generated bookmarks have a limited life-time and they won't be displayed within the qmc by the server-objects from the document. But they will be included within the shared-file - I have seen them there within a editor but if you used the shared-file viewer from the power tools you might be able to see some context like a creation timestamp and a life-time value and maybe other settings - which might be configurable within the settings.ini or another config-file (but I don't believe that this is documented anywhere).

- Marcus

Re: Mail with bookmark as a link - life-time of bookmark

Fri, 11 Nov 2016 12:20:42 GMT

Hi Marcus, thank you very much for your immediate response. I already checked and saw some information. But only the modified date and not the valid to (see screenshot).

Does anyone other have some knowledge?

Re: Mail with bookmark as a link - life-time of bookmark

marcus_sommer — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 14:01:06 GMT

Maybe bbt or pcammaert could give some hints.

- Marcus

Re: Mail with bookmark as a link - life-time of bookmark

Anonymous — Sat, 12 Nov 2016 17:24:09 GMT

I see some are getting corrupted more often. I would suggest to completely delete the .shared file and create new one to see if that fixes the issue.

Re: Mail with bookmark as a link - life-time of bookmark

Peter_Cammaert — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 13:30:41 GMT

No idea.

Can't find any obvious setting in both the configuration files (In Program Files\QlikView) and the settings files (in ProgramData\QlikTech) that might influence this timeout value. It may have been fixed at compile time.

Maybe moe can shed some light on this?

Re: Mail with bookmark as a link - life-time of bookmark

Tue, 15 Nov 2016 14:11:59 GMT

It's by default one week for last used (replaced by creation date if never used).

This is configurable in QVS. Setting is called ServerTempBookmarkDayTimeout=N

"The bookmarks will by default be deleted from the .shared file after 7 days, counting down from it's "last used" timestamp. The setting is if you want to keep them longer or shorter."

See: Power Tools - Shared File Viewer

Re: Mail with bookmark as a link - life-time of bookmark

Peter_Cammaert — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 14:17:11 GMT

So we simply add a key-value pair like that to the settings.ini file In the [Settings 7] section?

That's why I couldn't find it. It simply isn't there if we use the default value

Re: Mail with bookmark as a link - life-time of bookmark

Tue, 15 Nov 2016 14:49:08 GMT

Yes. If it does not exist, just add it.

NOTE! QVS is not really my expertise but happy to help with whatever little I know

Re: Mail with bookmark as a link - life-time of bookmark

Peter_Cammaert — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 14:59:00 GMT

Thanks a lot Magnus. You're the best !

Re: Mail with bookmark as a link - life-time of bookmark

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 16:13:41 GMT

‌Wow this is really good information. I guess this settings are new. Earlier it was N for older versions I suppose.

Re: Mail with bookmark as a link - life-time of bookmark

Tue, 15 Nov 2016 18:45:19 GMT

Thanks guys, for these helpful hints! I'll try it on Thursday and give a feedback!

Re: Mail with bookmark as a link - life-time of bookmark

jeremy_kofoot — Thu, 17 Nov 2016 20:08:32 GMT

We recently ran into this issue also and upon lots of research and finally validating with Qlik bookmarks generated from the "Send bookmark as a link" option are temp bookmarks that by default only last 7days from last use. So one of the things we have suggested to our end users is that if you are sending these to make a note in your email to have the user receiving the link save if as a bookmark, so they can always go back to it.

I know not a fix and as others have pointed out you can now change the value for how long temp bookmarks stay, but just a suggestion.