topic Re: Is it possible to get a "Shared File Editor" in Powertools next to the Viewer and Repair? in QlikView

Is it possible to get a "Shared File Editor" in Powertools next to the Viewer and Repair?

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

The feature in Powertools to view the .shared file is very usefull to pinpoint the source issue. But it would be a great for administrators to be able to change all the bookmarks at once. For example the <OneAndOnlyOne> parameter is set to true and you want to edit this to false. Is this possible and if so is this an enhancement you are willing to look at?

Regards,

Patrick

Re: Is it possible to get a "Shared File Editor" in Powertools next to the Viewer and Repair?

Peter_Cammaert — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 14:47:25 GMT

I'm not Stefan, but IMHO that would be an awful lot of work. In essence, you want the entire QlikView Desktop Properties dialog for all possible objects to be implemented in the Shared File Viewer?

I guess such a change would immediately put the Viewer on the QlikView Price List

Peter

BTW Don't get me wrong, I woul like that too. On the other hand, such a tool is already available: QlikView Desktop (with Open in Server) - the only things you need are the account and password of the creator of the shared object...

Re: Is it possible to get a "Shared File Editor" in Powertools next to the Viewer and Repair?

arieidel — Thu, 13 Mar 2014 19:04:34 GMT

There is another "nice to have" feature for the Shared File Viewer and much simpler, I guess: The ability to remove all created objects from a specific user o a list of users. We have a large .Shared file from an "old" app (it's been used for 2 years now) and there are many users that are no longer users so I would like to remove from the .Shared file any object that they have created.

Am I just dreaming?

Re: Is it possible to get a "Shared File Editor" in Powertools next to the Viewer and Repair?

Peter_Cammaert — Thu, 13 Mar 2014 22:09:49 GMT

I don't know if you're aware of this basic delete-shared-object-feature in the shared objects view in QMC (see Documents->User Documents->Document->Server->Server Objects - every shared object has a "delete" icon).

I guess you are, so you're asking for a more Qlikiew management-like feature that allows you to bulk-delete all objects of a certain user (hundreds of them), or all shared objects created by a group of users, or simply an X at the top of the list that deletes every shared object attached to a document. Nice! (The QMC doesn't even allow sorting the lists it presents, which is a big handicap if you ask me.)

QlikView Management API on the other hand offers lots of help to accomplish what you want (see the GetServerObjects & DeleteServerObject methods), if you are into programming it yourself that is...

This discussion may end up without an answer, but is interesting in itself to collect condensed feedback on "useful features" without the additional chatter of the regular PowerTools list. We should invite Stefan Bäckstrand to get his view on these things. Done!

Re: Is it possible to get a "Shared File Editor" in Powertools next to the Viewer and Repair?

arieidel — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 18:51:07 GMT

Thank you, Peter. I am aware of the QMC features, but it seems pretty hard to manage server objects with big .Shared files.

I'll take a look at the QlikView Managment API. We've already used it to develop a component to schedule/start Publisher tasks. I didn't know that you could manipulate .Shared files with it. Any example?

Thanks!

Re: Is it possible to get a "Shared File Editor" in Powertools next to the Viewer and Repair?

arieidel — Mon, 17 Mar 2014 18:08:16 GMT

Hi Peter,

I didn't find any GetServerObjects & DeleteServerObject methods in QMS API.

Do you have some examples or documentation I can use?

Thanks!

Re: Is it possible to get a "Shared File Editor" in Powertools next to the Viewer and Repair?

StefanBackstrand — Mon, 17 Mar 2014 18:45:11 GMT

Regarding being able to change any entry in a .shared file; this is not something we're looking into at this point, since there are several challenges around it, one being that we do not want to implement too much functionality in the tool that mimics what the server does (for several reasons). It is not in our interest to make the Shared File Viewer to an editing tool, but rather keep it as a salvage and troubleshooting tool. For this reason we are keeping advanced surgical functions like the one suggested to a minimum. I hope this is understandable.

And now, to the section called "There's a tool for that".

Regarding the ability to remove (or change owner of) several objects from a specific user; we have a tool for that, and it is called Server Object Handler (and its sibling Server Object Handler Batch, for you command line nerds out there). It allows you to remove or change ownership of multiple objects at the same time, based on filters on object owners, types or id. We recently also added support to filter/find objects who's owners are either not found or is disabled in Active Directory (if any). Note: the Server Object Handler (Batch) uses a legacy API over the QVP against the QVS, not the QMS API.

Regarding the QMS API; there are four functions relevant that can also help managing server objects (this is the collected and technical name for all objects in a .shared file, basically - put it in your memory banks), and they are; GetServerObjects(), GetServerObjectMetaDataForUser(), TakeServerObject() and DeleteServerObject(). You can of course explore these functions with the wonderful power tool QMS API Client, that's also included in Power Tools.

We know that QMC is not optimal in handling server objects, but I think that these tools more than enough makes up for that.

I hope this helps.

Re: Is it possible to get a "Shared File Editor" in Powertools next to the Viewer and Repair?

StefanBackstrand — Mon, 17 Mar 2014 18:47:44 GMT

You rang?

Please see my response here: Re: Is it possible to get a "Shared File Editor" in Powertools next to the Viewer and Repair?

Re: Is it possible to get a "Shared File Editor" in Powertools next to the Viewer and Repair?

StefanBackstrand — Mon, 17 Mar 2014 18:48:29 GMT

Ariel,

There's a tool for that. See my comment further down in this thread: Re: Is it possible to get a "Shared File Editor" in Powertools next to the Viewer and Repair?

Re: Is it possible to get a "Shared File Editor" in Powertools next to the Viewer and Repair?

arieidel — Mon, 17 Mar 2014 19:55:45 GMT

Hi Stefan,

Thanks for your help.

I'm checking out the Server Object Handler tool. With version 1.2 I type "QlikView Server" name, then click "Browse Document" and it opens a window without any qvw file.

With version 1.1 it seems to work OK, but I'd like to use 1.2 version because of the "Inactive users" filter. Do you know if there is a problem with this version?

Thanks again

Re: Is it possible to get a "Shared File Editor" in Powertools next to the Viewer and Repair?

StefanBackstrand — Mon, 17 Mar 2014 20:08:27 GMT

No, I haven't seen this until now. Thanks for letting me know.

I'll take look tomorrow when I have time. Meanwhile;

* What version of QlikView Server are you using? Version + SR

* Can you post a screendump?

Re: Is it possible to get a "Shared File Editor" in Powertools next to the Viewer and Repair?

arieidel — Mon, 17 Mar 2014 20:16:35 GMT

My QV Server is 11.20 SR2.

With 1.1 Version I can select a qvw file but when the it starts reading (rendering) the .Shared file objects it never ends until the application stops responding. It is a 150 Mb file with more than 3000 objects...

With version 1.2, when I click "Browse documents" the pop-up window opens empty:

Re: Is it possible to get a "Shared File Editor" in Powertools next to the Viewer and Repair?

StefanBackstrand — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 09:34:44 GMT

Ariel,

I've found a bug in the code that handled the credentials sent to the server, it must have been introduced in the version published in 1.2. I'm going to test the fix a bit and then try and issue a patch on Power Tools 1.2 with this included.

Thanks for reporting this!

Re: Is it possible to get a "Shared File Editor" in Powertools next to the Viewer and Repair?

StefanBackstrand — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 10:03:46 GMT

A new version with a fix for this issue in Server Object Handler is now in place. I've updated the package on the official page for Power Tools 1.2: Power Tools 1.2 for QlikView

Re: Is it possible to get a "Shared File Editor" in Powertools next to the Viewer and Repair?

arieidel — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 13:23:05 GMT

Stefan,

Now I could delete all objects from inactive users. It worked fine!

After that I needed to defrag the .Shared files because it stayed at the same size.

I used the SharedFile Viewer's defrag feature for that and I was wondering what is the difference with the repair command of QV11 SR4 QVS.EXE.

Thank you very much for your quick response!

Ariel

Re: Is it possible to get a "Shared File Editor" in Powertools next to the Viewer and Repair?

StefanBackstrand — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 15:32:42 GMT

Ariel,

The defrag functionality just re-orders objects to save space in the (binary) .shared file. Please be careful with this functionality, since it is not a supported function.

The repair functionality in 11.20 SR4 is a supported functionality, and is different because it tries to repair/remove broken/orphaned objects.

Re: Is it possible to get a "Shared File Editor" in Powertools next to the Viewer and Repair?

arieidel — Wed, 19 Mar 2014 14:19:37 GMT

Stefan,

Do you know why there is no supported defrag function? I mean, you can remove Shared Objects through the QMC but the .Shared file size doesn't change and it doesn't make sense.

With your Server Object Handler I was able to remove many server objects from inactive users. After that, I applied defrag function from SharedFile Viewer and it's size reduced 33%! (from 150Mb to 100Mb).

I believe that a supported defrag function should be provided by QlikView.

Re: Is it possible to get a "Shared File Editor" in Powertools next to the Viewer and Repair?

StefanBackstrand — Wed, 19 Mar 2014 22:11:53 GMT

Ariel,

We are evaluating the need for a defrag functionality, but I have no information on when this can (or if it will) be a supported function. Sorry. But the behavior is still correct and by design; removal of an object does not make the file smaller.

In any case, I think that the gains with defrag of the .shared files is mostly relevant in really large files, because this is where the effects will be more noticeable. That has to be tested, obviously.

Re: Is it possible to get a "Shared File Editor" in Powertools next to the Viewer and Repair?

Tue, 03 Feb 2015 21:15:21 GMT

I'm wondering if it is possible with the Server Object Handler to delete values of InputFieldValues from the shared file. In looking at the Server Object Handler alongside the Shared File Viewer, I'm not seeing these values populate, so I can't remove them. Does anyone else have any experience in removing these values from the shared file, as we have a shared file that is 600 MB's and around 500 of that is due to these InputFieldValues. We would really like to not have to just delete the shared file and have the users recreate all of their bookmarks. We have fixed the issue that caused this in the first place, now we need to figure out a way to fix the shared file.

Thanks for any help you can give.

Re: Is it possible to get a "Shared File Editor" in Powertools next to the Viewer and Repair?

Anonymous — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 16:59:31 GMT

Hi Stefan,

Thank you so much for the responses and dedication on making our lives better.

I'm just wandering if could you make the source-code of the ServerObjectHandler available for me. I need some extra functionalities that I use over and over again and I want to automate it in a couple of ways. The source code would give me a head-start on some of the features.

BTW, I'm comfortable with coding for .NET C#, C and C++. But I'm not prejudice whatever's the language you're using I'm pretty sure I can extract the content I need from it.

Please, let me know if this is possible... and I thank you in advance for the time and great support you've been giving to this unsupported tool.

Best regards

Dan