topic Re: Excel export in Test Server in QlikView

Excel export in Test Server

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

Hi everybody,

I have a question regarding Excel exporting and Test Server, Is there any limitation for exporting data to excel (using the export button and/or right click) when using a Test Server?

My question is because in a project I'm currently working on, I've received complaints from users telling that they are not able to export data to Excel, no matter if they connect through IE Plugin or Ajax Client. I've done tests myself and these are the results:

When I tried to export data from IE Plugin, Excel opens but no data is copied
When I tried to export from Ajax, I get this error message:

Also, I've checked that this option is allowed in server:

So what I think is that

Either is a bug
something's wrong with network config/security
or maybe it is indeed not possible to export data from a test server (however, I searched in documentation there's nothing about this possible limitation)

Hope somebody could help with this question,

thanks and best regards,

Jaime

Re: Excel export in Test Server

Bill_Britt — Tue, 13 May 2014 00:53:17 GMT

Hi,

What version of QlikView are you running and what OS? The error you are seeing is normally a network issue.

Bill

Re: Excel export in Test Server

ergustafsson — Tue, 13 May 2014 07:22:05 GMT

Hi,

Could also be an authentication issue. Are you using any custom authentication? Check to see if it works locally on the machine with the default user too.

Regards,

Erik

Re: Excel export in Test Server

jaimeaguilar — Tue, 13 May 2014 14:23:37 GMT

I'm using Windows Server 2008 R2. I don't think it's a network issue, we also have the production server and there's no problem with the excel exporting (it has the exact same configuration as the test server)

Re: Excel export in Test Server

jaimeaguilar — Tue, 13 May 2014 16:36:19 GMT

For some reason the option "Alternate Temporary Files Folder Path" was enabled and besides was targeting to a folder that no longer exists. As far as I know that option is only useful if you have a cluster environment (which is not our case). In clusters you need to set up a shared temporary folder in order to get excel exports and pdf report printing working, I just removed the folder that was specified under that option and now is working

regards