topic how to make supporting task end successfully in QlikView https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/how-to-make-supporting-task-end-successfully/m-p/648702#M1316936 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello</P><P>got an supporting task that runs an external program</P><P>Actually the external program is a batch file that opens a QVW file which has a macro that runs on the on open trigger and has on the final line a command that saves and quits qlikview</P><P>the task runs fine i.e. the QVW file opens and the macro runs successfully but the task keeps on showing that it is running knowing that I need to make it end successfully so that another task is triggered to run</P><P></P><P>please advise</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:19:17 GMT ali_hijazi 2026-01-26T18:19:17Z how to make supporting task end successfully https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/how-to-make-supporting-task-end-successfully/m-p/648702#M1316936 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello</P><P>got an supporting task that runs an external program</P><P>Actually the external program is a batch file that opens a QVW file which has a macro that runs on the on open trigger and has on the final line a command that saves and quits qlikview</P><P>the task runs fine i.e. the QVW file opens and the macro runs successfully but the task keeps on showing that it is running knowing that I need to make it end successfully so that another task is triggered to run</P><P></P><P>please advise</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:19:17 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/how-to-make-supporting-task-end-successfully/m-p/648702#M1316936 ali_hijazi 2026-01-26T18:19:17Z Re: how to make supporting task end successfully https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/how-to-make-supporting-task-end-successfully/m-p/648703#M1316939 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>In the supporting task definition, do you use "cmd /c BatchFileName.cmd" to run this batch file?</P><P></P><P>Best,</P><P></P><P>Peter</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 02 Oct 2014 13:38:49 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/how-to-make-supporting-task-end-successfully/m-p/648703#M1316939 Peter_Cammaert 2014-10-02T13:38:49Z Re: how to make supporting task end successfully https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/how-to-make-supporting-task-end-successfully/m-p/648704#M1316945 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>no I just put the path of the batch file to run</P><P>"D:\QlikView\Source Documents\SWEI\Quality Control\1-DEV\Quality Control CCI Dashboards\QVW\Open_QC_Dashboard.bat"</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 02 Oct 2014 13:44:51 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/how-to-make-supporting-task-end-successfully/m-p/648704#M1316945 ali_hijazi 2014-10-02T13:44:51Z Re: how to make supporting task end successfully https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/how-to-make-supporting-task-end-successfully/m-p/648705#M1316949 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>what is the syntax that I have to write?</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 02 Oct 2014 13:50:22 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/how-to-make-supporting-task-end-successfully/m-p/648705#M1316949 ali_hijazi 2014-10-02T13:50:22Z Re: how to make supporting task end successfully https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/how-to-make-supporting-task-end-successfully/m-p/648706#M1316953 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Are you sure that after being called from the batch file, QV Desktop terminates and returns to the shell?</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 02 Oct 2014 14:23:18 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/how-to-make-supporting-task-end-successfully/m-p/648706#M1316953 Peter_Cammaert 2014-10-02T14:23:18Z Re: how to make supporting task end successfully https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/how-to-make-supporting-task-end-successfully/m-p/648707#M1316957 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>yes I watch the task manager</P><P>QV.exe process is created then when macro finishes (exports all charts as images to a specific directory) this process disappears from the list i.e. terminates because I included in the macro the following lines</P><P>ActiveDocument.Save</P><P>&nbsp; ActiveDocument.GetApplication.Quit</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 02 Oct 2014 14:42:14 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/how-to-make-supporting-task-end-successfully/m-p/648707#M1316957 ali_hijazi 2014-10-02T14:42:14Z