topic Re: Open sans in dashboards in QlikView

Open sans in dashboards

kris_vliegen — Tue, 25 Aug 2015 14:27:23 GMT

Hi All,

We would like to use the google font "Open Sans" in our dashboards.

I've installed the font on my laptop and on the QV server.

But if an other user opens the dashboard in the access-point. He isn't getting the Open-sans font.

Who can help me???

Regards,

Kris

Re: Open sans in dashboards

kaushiknsolanki — Tue, 25 Aug 2015 14:34:50 GMT

Hi,

Please look at the link below for details.

8 steps to customize your QlikView apps with Google Fonts

Regards,

Kaushik Solanki

Re: Open sans in dashboards

marcus_sommer — Tue, 25 Aug 2015 14:37:13 GMT

The fonts by the user are depending on which fonts are installed by each of the users. Further the user browser-settings (per default or from the user) could overwrite the used fonts from the website (access point).

- Marcus

Re: Open sans in dashboards

kris_vliegen — Tue, 25 Aug 2015 14:38:53 GMT

I've tried these things yesterday, but it isn't working for me...

Re: Open sans in dashboards

kris_vliegen — Tue, 25 Aug 2015 14:40:21 GMT

Is this something I can do in the management-console?

Because I Don't wan't to do the setting by user.

If a new user opens the dashboard it should be ok.

Re: Open sans in dashboards

marcus_sommer — Tue, 25 Aug 2015 14:43:41 GMT

No, you can't do it (only) on server-side - there are those user-settings, too.

- Marcus

Re: Open sans in dashboards

Peter_Cammaert — Tue, 25 Aug 2015 15:10:41 GMT

Fonts do not need to be installed on each User machine. QlikView can be told to pull them from the Google repositories or from a directory on the current web server (IIS or QVWS).

Did you check the mime types? By default, a server like QVWS doesn't include any of the font-related mime types and therefor will send fonts as unintelligible byte streams to a browser. The browser won't know what to do with this gibberish. See How to activate Google webfonts for iPad/Safari?‌

Best,

Peter