topic Re: Publisher pdf report error in QlikView

Publisher pdf report error

jduarte12 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:19:17 GMT

Hello,

I am using Publisher to distribute a pdf report via e-mail. However, in the latest report I had to develop, I am not managing to get it distributed to the e-mail addresses as it is supposed. I must also say that we have daily triggers to send other reports and everything is working fine.

The problem with this new report is the following: it has to be distributed "along" a certain parameter, which can have one of four values. Depending on that value, the report would have 23, 10, 24 or 28 pages. The interesting issue is that I am only getting the 10-page report; the others are not sent (the e-mail addresses are the same) and I receive an e-mail notification of failed task.

I would like to know if there is some kind of limit to the number of pages of a pdf report. I need to understand if I need to improve the script or, on the other hand, if there is some limitation concerning Publisher pdf reports.

I am using QlikView 11 SR2 on a Windows 2008 Server machine.

Thank you & Best regards,

João Duarte

Re: Publisher pdf report error

jaimeaguilar — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 18:37:52 GMT

Hi,

can you post the configuration you're using in Management console, please? Also how does that parameter you mention, is interacting with server?, I think that's the clue here.

As a side note, I've seen that when you try to distribute reports with lots of pages (like over 50 pages), the task sometimes fail, but it seems that the number of pages is not an issue for you,

regards

Re: Publisher pdf report error

Bill_Britt — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 19:05:52 GMT

You can try to increase the PDF timeout to see if that helps.

For QVServer Reload Engine you will need to editthe Settings.ini file located in C:\Documents and Settings\Default
User\Application Data\QlikTech\QlikViewBatch\ by adding thePDFPrintTimeoutInSeconds=30 under the [Settings 7] tag somewhere. There is no need to restart any services after adding this, as the QVB process reads the
Settings.ini every time a QVB process is launched.

Bill

Re: Publisher pdf report error

jduarte12 — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 09:29:32 GMT

Thank you both for your answers.

@Jaime Aguilar: the parameter I referred to is a number in an Excel file. The reports are supposed to be created for each parameter value. The number of pages of the report will match a second parameter, that is associated with the first one.

@Bill Britt: I did not find exactly that folder path. However, I edited the settings.ini file under C:\ProgramData\QlikTech\QlikViewServer but it keeps sending the 10 page report (parameter value =2) while the other 3 reports (parameter values =1,3 and 4) are not sent.

Is there any other way to change timeouts?

Regards,

João Duarte

Re: Publisher pdf report error

jduarte12 — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 10:02:20 GMT

It can also say that the only QlikViewBatch folder I found cointains an Initial.ini file, which has also a [Settings 7].

Nevertheless, the only expression below is a bracketed expression. I believe that I should not edit this file, am I right?

Re: Publisher pdf report error

Bill_Britt — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 10:40:53 GMT

Hi,

I am sorry, I didn't realize I posted the path for Server 2003. The path for 2008 is

Windows 2008 - C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Roaming\QlikTech\QlikViewBatch

Bill

Re: Publisher pdf report error

jduarte12 — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 10:58:49 GMT

No problem. I edited that settings.ini file and tried with some different timeout values but the problem still remains.

João Duarte

Re: Publisher pdf report error

Bill_Britt — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 12:27:18 GMT

Hi,

Can you build a report that has 28 pages and try just running that? I mean without the parameter and see if that will print and email?

Can you post the distribution log from one of the reports that fail?

Bill

Re: Re: Publisher pdf report error

jduarte12 — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 13:12:43 GMT

I have tried running only for the 28-page report's parameter. Yet, it is a good idea trying to send the report without the parameter.

The log file follows apended.

Thank you

João Duarte

Re: Publisher pdf report error

Bill_Britt — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 21:21:23 GMT

Have you stopped and restart the distribution service since you added the setting? If so and it still doesn't work I would open a ticket with support.

Bill

Re: Publisher pdf report error

jduarte12 — Sun, 15 Jun 2014 20:43:08 GMT

Hello Bill

Thanks for your reply. In fact, I tried to run only for the 28-page report, but it did not work.

I have tried with and without performing stop+restart after changing the setting.

I will follow your advise and open a ticket with the support team.

Regards,

João Duarte

Re: Publisher pdf report error

jduarte12 — Wed, 02 Jul 2014 11:23:57 GMT

Hello

In what concerns this issue, I contacted Qlikview Support and they managed to distribute the reports correctly.

Meanwhile, we adopted a new e-mail server, which motivated a change in the parameter that commands the pdf distribution. In this new scenario, we should have 81 1-page reports, but an error was fired as soon as it came to distribute the 17th report.

After more research in the Community, I read about pdf distribution problems caused by hidden objects. Consequently, as these reports had some tables and charts which were conditionally displayed, I changed the reports in order to always show all the tables and charts. As a result, the reports began to be distributed correctly.

In the end, I have the problem solved, but I still would like your opinion about that solution (having no conditionality for showing objects), as I would expect Qlikview to be able to cope with hidden objects...

Thank you & Best regards,

João Duarte