topic Re: How to clean Document Category List on QMC in QlikView

How to clean Document Category List on QMC

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

Hi,

in the QMC, sometimes we can have old categories we would like to delete.

Is there a way to do that ?

Regards,

Johann

Re: How to clean Document Category List on QMC

Bill_Britt — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 11:41:48 GMT

HI Johann,

There is not easy way without editing an XLM file. If you decide to do this please make sure you have a backup of it.

You will need to go to C:\ProgramData\QlikTech\ManagementService\QVPR (default installation). There you will find the Category.xml and at the bottom is the Category names.

The line would look like this.

Bill

Re: How to clean Document Category List on QMC

jchoucq — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 11:56:09 GMT

Thanks a lot Bill !

Re: How to clean Document Category List on QMC

Fri, 28 Feb 2014 22:02:38 GMT

hi thank you for all who are in this discussion

but it is not working in my case i deleted the row from the category.xml yesterday and i checked on my QMC it did not get deleted in the category drop down list.

and today when i saw in the category.xml file i can see the deleted row.

do we need to do any other thing after deleted the below line from category.xml file.

i opened the category.xml file in notepad and deleted the row and saved it

Re: How to clean Document Category List on QMC

Tue, 26 May 2015 14:33:34 GMT

I have the same problem!!

Have you been able to resolve it?

Re: How to clean Document Category List on QMC

rwunderlich — Tue, 26 May 2015 19:14:28 GMT

Stop the QlikView services before editing the file. Then start the services again after saving your edit.

-Rob

Re: How to clean Document Category List on QMC

Tue, 26 May 2015 19:19:49 GMT

Excellent Rob! I will try that. Thanks!

Re: How to clean Document Category List on QMC

gainkarthi — Tue, 26 May 2015 19:42:16 GMT

Please restart the QMC and QDS Services. That should fix the issue.

Re: How to clean Document Category List on QMC

swati_rastogi27 — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 09:40:21 GMT

I have QlikView version 12 installed on a Windows 2016 Cloud machine.

There is no such path as .../QlikTech/ProgramData

This is what I could find in the installation directory :

C:/Program Files/QlikView/Management Service

In this I can only see the QVPR dll files and no xml files where i can remove/cleanup labels

There is one QVPRXML.dll which of course is encrypted

Re: How to clean Document Category List on QMC

swati_rastogi27 — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 09:49:20 GMT

Just discovered , the ProgramData folder was hidden.
At last , found Category.xml file !