topic Re: Logout button on Access Point (V10) in QlikView

Logout button on Access Point (V10)

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

I am trying to find out how to change the index.htm file to allow the logout feature to be visible, and to allow the logout action to work. Any solutions?

Logout button on Access Point (V10)

bnichol — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 12:15:08 GMT

You can configure the AccessPoint logout link within QEMC > System > QlikView Web Servers > QVWS@ > Authentication > Authentication.

Set this value to Login, then the "Logout" link will appear next to the user name in the AccessPoint header. I've tried this and the functionality works correctly. My QVS security is set to use NTFS.

Good Luck,

Re: Logout button on Access Point (V10)

theresaa — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 13:49:16 GMT

I cannot seem to find the correct place to set the value to "Login". This is what my QEMC security tab looks like:

Re: Logout button on Access Point (V10)

bnichol — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 13:52:56 GMT

You are showing the QlikView Server, but you need to go to the QlikView WEB Server link...

QEMC > System > QlikView Web Servers > QVWS@ > Authentication > Authentication

Re: Logout button on Access Point (V10)

theresaa — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:06:00 GMT

OMG. Thanks so much. It is working correctly now. !!! Thank You for your help !

Logout button on Access Point (V10)

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 12:44:41 GMT

Hi Bnichol,

We tried the same. It is now showing logout option.

On clicking logout, it logs out and shows the login page. But on relogin, it does not ask for username and password, but directly logs in.

Logout button on Access Point (V10)

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 08:02:41 GMT

Hey Bnichol,

it depends on your settings in IE security zone.

Logout button on Access Point (V10)

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 11:23:08 GMT

Hi Obr,

Please can you tell which settings.

Logout button on Access Point (V10)

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 12:57:45 GMT

Re: Logout button on Access Point (V10)

stevelord — Wed, 03 Jul 2019 14:27:53 GMT

Edit: Someone just sent me a kudos about this here in the future (July 2019) but I think I vaguely recall encountering some other kind of flaw or gap in the logout not mentioned below. Since we're up to v12.something, and my company has evolved to where SSO things are happening, and I'm good with the section access to boot... I'm not in a position to test logout button stuff here in the future. (Maybe on my personal computer, but doesn't seem needful to me at this time.) The reason folks at my company wanted a logout button back in the past was related to shift-workers on certain frontline teams wanting to do a clean logout without closing windows ahead of the next shift. I think they ended up just closing their browsers out and letting the next shift open and push a favorites button/bookmark to log back in though. I just felt a civic duty to come back and update this to ensure people are very very careful how much trust they put in old info about a version of Qlikview I don't think Qlik even supports anymore. v12 and various combinations of environments and browsers might get various results and probably even the desired results though. 🙂

Woah, holy cow! There are about a hundred posts over three years saying it's a bug, impossible, close all windows, next release, make macros, jump up and down, fiddle with IE preferences, etcetera. This is the only post anywhere on EARTH that I could find where someone said check this, that, and it works. And it works!

Now if I have accesspoint in one tab, something else in another tab, close the access point tab, and reopen the tab it doesn't require the sign-in, but it did that anyway. It seems like the Authenticate->Always is failing there and the Authenticate->Login is actually stronger even though it's not an 'always'. If I sign out, I have to sign back in. If I close all browser windows and reopen, I have to sign back in. Sign out button is so much nicer than close all windows.

Anyway, THANKS! and happy Friday!

Re: Logout button on Access Point (V10)

stevelord — Sat, 08 Mar 2014 02:28:11 GMT

Ah wait, the flaw is that when you sign out you can just push sign in again to go back in without user authentication. Still have to close all windows to make it so people need to authenticate to sign in. Is there any way to have both the sign out feature and the authentication always feature together?

Re: Logout button on Access Point (V10)

richard — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 15:01:32 GMT

No wonder why this remains a "fake-make-me-happy" feature of it still depends on IE or other browser settings.

Re: Logout button on Access Point (V10)

stevelord — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 15:56:19 GMT

Yeah, I started calling it a glorified back button. ☺ I have an idea about making a web page object that times you out and forces back to the authentication page when you push it, but confident I’ll have to learn something more advanced to keep people from navigating around that page to get back in without re-authenticating.

Re: Logout button on Access Point (V10)

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 08:17:46 GMT

As all the reply above, tried this "correct answer" in QV 11.20 SR8 , but it is just a fake "sign out" button. In my case, I use chrome in ubuntu, this button only refresh the page, but do nothing to "sign out".

Is there any update for this?

Re: Logout button on Access Point (V10)

stevelord — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 13:18:42 GMT

Still the same in 11.2 SR12 firefox, chrome, or IE11 I'm afraid. Likely a reasonably advanced developer could write something outside qlikview that simulates the effect by quietly closing and reopening the browser, but pretty sure that'd hit a lot of snags related to people using that browser for more than qlikview at the same time.

At this point best approach might be use one browser for qlikview and the others for other stuff, so that closing out the qlikview browser to 'log out' won't cause you to have to close your other browser windows.

Re: Logout button on Access Point (V10)

kswindlehurst — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 16:37:29 GMT

Is this is a security issue or convenience issue? If the latter, I think you can add a switch to the IE shortcut:

iexplore.exe -noframemerging

that should prevent you from having to close ALL your windows.

I've used it to overcome cookie conflict issues on non-Qlik apps with multiple environments on different tabs. As long as IE maintains authentication at the frame level (same as a cookie), then only the current frame is authenticated. This does affect ALL your IE windows and ALL logins, not just Qlik.

If it works, maybe add a window.close() to the logoff button...

Re: Logout button on Access Point (V10)

stevelord — Wed, 23 Mar 2016 13:30:03 GMT

Convenience issue at my company, but a minor security issue for other community members where people might be sharing terminals. (And actually the people sharing terminals should probably be less concerned about having to close all their windows before handing off than admins testing logins that were just created.)

And thanks for the IE approach. We'd need approaches for google and firefox as well, that could be deployed by an admin ideally. Or just a qlikview-centric approach. And probably something for Macs. Always something for Macs...

Re: Logout button on Access Point (V10)

Fri, 15 Jul 2016 16:24:19 GMT

You are good once you are signed in but when you try to sign out it wont sign out

Re: Logout button on Access Point (V10)

stevelord — Fri, 15 Jul 2016 17:03:50 GMT

True, there is no actual logout solution in qlikview. All you can do is closeout the whole browser, or try fancy stuff in your personal browser configurations on chrome ie or firefox. Colleagues who helped train or test new user credentials just got in the habit of doing that in a separate browser so they could close/reopen without closing out there other pages. You can make the logout button appear, and when you push it it takes you to a logged out page, but when you push back you're right back in your qlikview document without re-authenticating. So it's a fake logout button.

The password assistance issue is gone from our company now though - network admin setup a self-service portal for users to reset their own passwords. (We're using ntname credentials on windows for our qlikview and a couple other applications hosted on our server.)

Also we don't have anyone sharing computers here, so that one's not an issue for us either. I think other companies had customer service reps and clerks sharing machines on different shifts though and those folks were much more anxious to get a working logout button. For now, it's just that big X in the upper right corner. And Yes, close all tabs...

Re: Logout button on Access Point (V10)

Fri, 09 Dec 2016 15:59:34 GMT

Fake logout button? Really Qlik?

I've worked with many Bi products over 16 years and have never seen such a relatively immature product so widely used by so many people. I guess you get what you pay for.......or maybe not.

Same for NPrinting - Way, way behind the curve. In fact, BusinessObjects had scheduling and distribution services mastered in 1999.

To be sure, Qlikview looks hip, slick and cool but the rest is all hype.

Bottom line - Qlik is not ready for prime time or the enterprise.