topic Re: Losing Bookmarks that have previously worked in QlikView

Losing Bookmarks that have previously worked

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

I have two users who have bookmarks that no longer load.

I suspect that this is due to the data structure changing.

Is there a way of "interrogating" the metadata using a certain tool.

I can open the metadata file in a product such as Notepad++ and see the "title" of the bookmark, but beyond that there is a lot of hierogliphics and weird characters.

If i can open the metadata file i am assuming i should be able to see the parameters of the bookmark.

Any advice gratefully received.

On a similar subject i noticed that the metadata file is 17meg(sales.qvw.shared) and the qvw is 34 meg(sales.qvw).

Does anyone else have such a huge metadata file.

NB the sales.qvw.meta is 4 kb !!!!!!

Thanks in advance

Re: Losing Bookmarks that have previously worked

Clever_Anjos — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 16:09:03 GMT

Yes, search for PowerTools here in Community.

There´s a tool called SharedFileViewer to inspect your shared files

Re: Losing Bookmarks that have previously worked

Bill_Britt — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 20:07:30 GMT

The powertools is what you need to use to look at the .share files. However, the correct way to remove them is through the QMC.

Bill

Re: Losing Bookmarks that have previously worked

Jason_Michaelides — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 23:26:45 GMT

Have you added a field and set it to "Always one selected value"? This would render existing bookmarks useless.

Re: Losing Bookmarks that have previously worked

Luis_Cortizo — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 00:02:14 GMT

I also recommend to remove the objects on the .shared file through the QMC.

In addition to that I find very very useful the .shared file cleaning tool introduced since 11.2 SR4 version.

You can find a tutorial on how to use it on the Release Notes of 11.2 SR4 and 11.2 SR5.

Re: Losing Bookmarks that have previously worked

timsaddler — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 16:15:45 GMT

Hello

I have done some further investigation on this now using Qlikview
powertools utility.

This allows me to interrogate the bookmarks from the shared file.

One user has 3 blank bookmarks out of a total of 39.

The possibilities i can see are as follows:-

1. The user deleted the bookmark parameters then "replaced" with a blank bookmark
(unlikely)
2. The shared file didn't update correctly.

We have a "cluster" and i wonder whether a single "shared" file if updated simultaneously by 2 users could cause an issue.?

Does anybody else have experience of this ?

Thanks n advance

Re: Losing Bookmarks that have previously worked

rwunderlich — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 16:20:52 GMT

Are you using inputfields?

Re: Losing Bookmarks that have previously worked

timsaddler — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 16:23:00 GMT

No Input Fields - just standard set analysis...all very simple stuff

Re: Losing Bookmarks that have previously worked

Luis_Cortizo — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 17:12:10 GMT

Don't mean to repeat myself, but, if you are running version 11.2 SR4 or later, could you please follow this procedure:

1) Copy the QVS.exe file into a backup folder (let's say c:\Temp)

2) Copy the .shared file you want to analyze in the same folder (c:\Temp again).

3) Execute "c:\Temp\QVS.exe" -x "c:\Temp\shared_file_to_analize.shared" -v on cmd

4) Share here the result of the log file.

You can find detailed information about this process here:

http://community.qlik.com/blogs/supportupdates/2013/12/16/qlikview-1120-service-release-5-is-now-available

Re: Losing Bookmarks that have previously worked

timsaddler — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 12:27:31 GMT

Hello

Thanks for the advise which i understand

However...does this procedure have to be done on a Qlikview server.

I am a little nervous of a command line running on a production server?

Please advise

Thanks

Re: Losing Bookmarks that have previously worked

Bill_Britt — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 13:27:26 GMT

You have to be careful with any utility you decide to use. If you have changed anything that was bookmarked the only way to get them to continue to work is to undone the changes.

Bill

Re: Losing Bookmarks that have previously worked

Luis_Cortizo — Wed, 12 Feb 2014 07:08:08 GMT

Hi, Tim

Yes, of course it's very delicate to execute something on the server.

I don't think there would be any problem to copy the QVS.exe to analyze the .shared file into your local machine and execute it there for testing purposes.

Best regards.

Re: Losing Bookmarks that have previously worked

Anonymous — Mon, 05 May 2014 21:11:35 GMT

Hi Luis,

I was just testing it using one of my .Shared files, and it doesn't seem to create any log file. Do you know whether it means it cannot find issue on my shared file or it doesn't even executed successfully?

Note: I even run the cmd.exe using "Administrator privilege".

I appreciate your (and/or others) feedback.

Best regards,

Anton

Re: Losing Bookmarks that have previously worked

Luis_Cortizo — Tue, 06 May 2014 08:19:24 GMT

Hi, Anton

With the statements that you are executing you should be able to find a file called MYFILENAME.QVW.shared_clean.log.

If that's not what's happening after execution the more straightforward way of finding what's happening is throught support.

Would you be kind enough to get in contact with them, please?.

Hope it helps.

Best regards.

Re: Losing Bookmarks that have previously worked

Anonymous — Tue, 06 May 2014 12:26:59 GMT

Luis,

It seems the QVS.exe feature only exists in 11.2 SR4 (according to my own testing - as of 5/20/2014). The issue I had when I mentioned to you a few weeks ago, was because I tried to use 11.2 SR6 & 11.2 SR5 - none of them generated the log file.

When I switched to SR4, it generates the log right away. Thank you for your advise.

Best regards,

Anton