topic Re: Hide or move .shared and .meta files in QlikView

Hide or move .shared and .meta files

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:19:17 GMT

Hi Community,

Should be possible to hide the shared and meta data files or tell qlikview to create them in another location?

I tried using the hide option per file but from the application desktop is possible to still saw it.

Any idea will be appreciated.

Regards,

Federico.-

Re: Hide or move .shared and .meta files

oknotsen — Thu, 05 May 2016 18:53:31 GMT

I have to ask: Why would you want to do that?

Just don't give people access to that folder.

Re: Hide or move .shared and .meta files

Thu, 05 May 2016 18:59:40 GMT

Thanks Onno for your respond, my answer to your question: It's something that people from BI want not to see, but they need to have access for daily work.

Re: Hide or move .shared and .meta files

Clever_Anjos — Thu, 05 May 2016 19:07:32 GMT

Those files reside into you QV Server, a place that are not supposed to have access by regular users.

Why you want to hide them?

Re: Hide or move .shared and .meta files

Thu, 05 May 2016 19:24:09 GMT

Hi Clever thanks for your answer, the reason is users have a folder inside the server for development and test, so they have access, but the production folder is read only for the users.

Why you mean the user should not have access? is not the correct way?

Re: Hide or move .shared and .meta files

Clever_Anjos — Thu, 05 May 2016 20:22:50 GMT

Create a subfolder for that users and grant access only to that subfolder

Re: Hide or move .shared and .meta files

Thu, 05 May 2016 20:30:44 GMT

But how make a subfolder will not show the meta and shared files?

Re: Hide or move .shared and .meta files

Peter_Cammaert — Thu, 05 May 2016 20:36:07 GMT

Or create a development tree in a location that isn't being used by QVS as a document folder. Whenever documents need to be propagated to production, copy them to the Document root.

Mounted folders with the Browsable checkbox switched off, can be used to store documents that are reloaded by the server but aren't visible in the accesspoint.

Best practice says to keep everyone - users, developers, managers, santaclaus, president Trump - out of the Document Root.

Peter

Re: Hide or move .shared and .meta files

Thu, 05 May 2016 20:39:22 GMT

Thanks Peter for your respond. I will try in that way.

Thanks a lot to all!

Re: Hide or move .shared and .meta files

Fri, 06 May 2016 07:47:41 GMT

You can allso try to to execute a cmd attrib +h DocumentName()*

This will hide the QVW, Meta and Shared in the folder and also the AccessPoint

Re: Hide or move .shared and .meta files

Fri, 06 May 2016 20:13:11 GMT

Thanks Ignacio for your respond, but they need to see the QVW. Thanks again.