topic CAL transforms Personal Edition into Developer in QlikView

CAL transforms Personal Edition into Developer

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:34:18 GMT

Hi all,

I am just starting to look at off-line access to documents. We are currently using 8.20 and so I downloaded 9.00sr2 just so I could explore the latest functionality. The start page announced quite happily that this was 'Personal Edition'. I do have a named user CAL on the server and apart from the 'PE' have only the plugin installed (ie no other local windows client).

I opened a server document with this 'Personal Edition' which then showed 'You are currently leasing a licence from xxxxxxxxx'. I copied a qvw from the server to the desktop and then went off-line (I actually rebooted the laptop away from the network because thats the kind of guy I am)

Next, I opened the qvw on the desktop and was surprised that I had full Enterprise access. I had been expecting (I think) only Analyzer-like functionality (ie read). I modified the document and then went back on the network to find it (using 'Enterprise' on the server) as I saved it.

My questions are:

1) Is this to be expected or is it a back-door giving Enterprise-for-every-CAL?

2) How could I restrict the local client to 'Analyser' only?

Regards,

Gordon

CAL transforms Personal Edition into Developer

Qlik_Trigg — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:53:30 GMT

Gordon

Per the usual leasing model, a Personal Edition user that can connect to a Server, can lease a license. Same rules apply as specified in the QVS manual.

In 9.0 the distinction in the between Dev/Pro/Analyzer was removed from the client install. Registry settings now control the level of functionality. Manipulation of these is described in the document attached to this thread

Regards

John Trigg

Global Product Manager

CAL transforms Personal Edition into Developer

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:43:43 GMT

Thanks John,

I hadnt appreciated just what the collapse of the products and the availability of PE truly meant!

Regards,

Gordon

CAL transforms Personal Edition into Developer

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 11:44:11 GMT

Hi Gordon,

Even I too got surprised. I was working with the Personal Edition and I asked for the Developer License so that I can open any of the documents from the other resources. Then they told me to open the application from the server and the copy the same to my system and later found that I am able to open the others application which is not developed in my system even without the license. I had only personal edition installed into my system.

What exactly is happening here.

CAL transforms Personal Edition into Developer

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 11:54:45 GMT

Thats quite correct. If you load the Windows client to your local machine and then connect to a server where you have a named CAL licence, 'Personal Edition' changes to a full version where the licence has a 30 day lease (every time you connect to the server it refreshes it).

So the days of having to buy a developer version of QLikview (was it called Enterprise?) are no more - any user with a valid named CAL and the windows client installed has access to the full developer functionality!

Gordon

CAL transforms Personal Edition into Developer

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 13:27:33 GMT

Hi Gordon,


gordon.savage wrote:
Thats quite correct. If you load the Windows client to your local machine
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What do you mean by windows client? Do you mean to say that Personal Edition is also called as Windows client. Clear that to me first.


gordon.savage wrote:
Thats quite correct. If you load the Windows client to your local machine and then connect to a server where you have a named CAL licence, 'Personal Edition' changes to a full version where the licence has a 30 day lease

If you mean to say that Personal Edition=Windows client then I have already personal edition is already there in my system. Then my manager told me to copy one application from the server to my local system. Once I copied and to my local system tried to open the same it got open. I really got surprise to see this. I got shocked how a personal edition is able to open the application that has been developed in other system. At that time I need whether license is enabled in Personal edition or not. Later seeing the above reply from you I checked in my personal edition then got to know that currently I am leasing the license.

So do you mean to say that I leased license which will be valid for 30 days.


gordon.savage wrote:
(every time you connect to the server it refreshes it).

Do you mean to say by the above that whenever I am connected to the server then only I will able to share the documents. If I am not in the network do you mean to say that I will not be able to open anything from the other resources.


gordon.savage wrote:
So the days of having to buy a developer version of QLikview (was it called Enterprise?) are no more - any user with a valid named CAL and the windows client installed has access to the full developer functionality!

I am not sure whether I have valid named CAL or not but seeing all your point I am assumping that I have the leased license for 30 days. Where I will be having functionality of qlikview client just like a developer license.

CAL transforms Personal Edition into Developer

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 13:47:10 GMT

WIndows client is Qlikview loaded on your local machine - the full developer thing (as opposed to the plugin for example).

You need to understand that Personal Edition and the 'full thing' are only different in Personal Edition NOT being licenced, so when you are leasing a licence then you are not using the software as 'Personal Edition' anymore but the full thing. When you are using Qlikview with a leased licence you can open and change any document (you have access to) and any document you create can be shared amongst anyone else who has the 'full thing' (not Personal Edition) and deployed through Qlikview Server.

Hope this clarifies!

Gordon

CAL transforms Personal Edition into Developer

Tue, 14 Dec 2010 06:07:45 GMT

Hi Gordon,

Many thanks for your help.


(every time you connect to the server it refreshes it).

What do u mean by this? What will get refreshed?

Also let me know will I be able to work when I am not in network. Please clarify these things to me.

CAL transforms Personal Edition into Developer

Tue, 14 Dec 2010 10:47:12 GMT

Every time you connect to the server it refreshes it - 'it' being the leased licence. So while you are connected to the server the leased licence will be valid for 30 days; when you are working off-line it decreases by one day each day and if you don't connect to the server to refresh the licence after 30 days, then it will revert back to Personal Edition (but then become a 'full licence' with a 30 day lease the next time you connect).

The beauty of this is that you can develop applications off-line with the lease licence with all the functionality as if you were working on-line and then move them to your network later on.

Regards,

Gordon

CAL transforms Personal Edition into Developer

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 21:45:46 GMT

Gordon,

In practice how does the document version control work with a leased license?

I'm wondering how the document gets updated and in what fashion (automatically,manually, etc.).

For instance, I have Personal Edition on my desktop.
I have a Named User CAL on the server available to me.

If I lease my named CAL license for 30 days, how do I take an available QVW application "offline" with me, edit the document and then re-post or overwrite it back to the server so my newly updated app is available for everyone else to see and use. What are the best practices with this scenario?

thanks!

CAL transforms Personal Edition into Developer

Wed, 12 Jan 2011 10:51:41 GMT

Version control is dependent upon your local standards.

As I am the sole developer at my site, I simply copy the .QVW to my laptop, update it off-line using the leased licence then when I have finished I simply copy it back to the server. My version control is just changing the document title with a new 'document vN.N' and renaming the original to document vN.N.QVW so I have a history of changes. I also have a version comments table in the script to document what I have changed. No more complicated than that! If you use Access Point I guess you would have to put the old versions in a seperate folder as otherwise Access Point will show them - I dont use Access Point for a couple of reasons including the fact that as I use backup (User Preferences> Save> Use Backup) the old versions created by QLikview also become visible to Access Point.

Of course, the data sources when working off-line might not be available so reloading might be an issue, I generally work off-line just on the UI.

If you have 'Allow Licence Lease' checked in Managment Console then 'converting' your Personal Edition to a full licence with the lease is simply a question of setting 'Default Licence Lease Server' in User Preferences>Locations and away it goes.

Regards,

Gordon

CAL transforms Personal Edition into Developer

Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:06:29 GMT

Hi Gordon,

I am confused now. we have Named CALs on the Server. I want to use on my Personal PC a leased License from the Server. Is this Possible Gordon?

I tried to use the Open from Server on the QVW and this pop comes. Any Idea Gordon??

Thanks

Sravan

CAL transforms Personal Edition into Developer

Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:22:14 GMT

Sravan,

It still thinks it is personal edition. I am not quite sure what you are trying to achieve by opening a document from the server with a local client - you lease a licence so that you transform the client from Personal Edition to full licence and this allows you to work with/create local documents. If you want to work with a document on a server with your leased licence then you need to work directly with the .qvw, 'not open from server'.

Anyway, the key thing is that you need to lease the licence to tranform the Qlikview client: If you have 'Allow Licence Lease' checked in Managment Console then 'converting' your Personal Edition to a full licence with the lease is simply a question of setting 'Default Licence Lease Server' in User Preferences>Locations and away it goes. Qlikview will look to match a named cal to your Windows logon credentials of course - you cant lease a licence named to someone else.

Hope that helps.

Gordon