topic Re: Password protection Excel, qvd in QlikView

Password protection Excel, qvd

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:10:43 GMT

Hi,

is there an option to load password protected excel files or can i set passwords to a qvd file?
Thanks in advance

Aloah

AW:Password protection Excel, qvd

martinpohl — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 13:24:56 GMT

Looking for different fees in this forum it looks like:

you can't do this.

No ideas why not, in my opinion this should be possible.

Regards

Password protection Excel, qvd

stevedark — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 18:02:30 GMT

Hi there,

This can be achieved using an ODBC connection, see my post here:

http://community.qlik.com/forums/p/36844/166731.aspx

Regards,
Steve

Password protection Excel, qvd

prieper — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 21:18:20 GMT

You may load one .qvd into a .qvw, which then can be protected by password. The table can be accessed via "binary load".
Actually not very elegant, but works

HTH
Peter

Password protection Excel, qvd

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:18:17 GMT

Here is some work around.. but the excel file needs to be opened in MS Excel first during the below steps..

1. The excel file should be opened first in the system where QlikView is extracting that excel data (with supplying the password)

2. Create ODBC connection for the encrypted (password protected) excel file. Provide DSN Name ,Choose the Excel file and proper excel version (latest is version12)

3. In the QlikView script, choose "ODBC" and connect,choose the DSN you created in step2 and provide password and leave the userid blank.

4.Test the connection

5.Click OK

6.Click "select" and "tick" the "system Fields" check box. You should be able to see the sheets.

NOTE

Whenever there is data extraction needed from the protected excel into QlikView, you should open the protected excel file in excel first otherwise you will get error. "SQL##f-SqlState:S1000,ErrorCode:4294962281,ErrorMsg:[Microsoft]ODBC Excel Driver]External table is not in the expected format".

SO KEEP the Excel file Open !!!!??? in the QlikView Server (where the data extraction happens )

Seems the the EXCEL ODBC driver needs the excel file to be opened in MS Excel..

If any other better way, pls update..

Re: Password protection Excel, qvd

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:19:18 GMT

Here is some work around.. but the excel file needs to be opened in MS Excel first during the below steps..

1. The excel file should be opened first in the system where QlikView is extracting that excel data (with supplying the password)

2. Create ODBC connection for the encrypted (password protected) excel file. Provide DSN Name ,Choose the Excel file and proper excel version (latest is version12)

3. In the QlikView script, choose "ODBC" and connect,choose the DSN you created in step2 and provide password and leave the userid blank.

4.Test the connection

5.Click OK

6.Click "select" and "tick" the "system Fields" check box. You should be able to see the sheets.

NOTE

SO KEEP the Excel file Open !!!!??? in the QlikView Server (where the data extraction happens )

Seems the the EXCEL ODBC driver needs the excel file to be opened in MS Excel..

If any other better way, pls update..

Password protection Excel, qvd

Anonymous — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:14:48 GMT

Hi Silvia,

Thank you so much for the above Information. I tried but the unexpected error hitted be back. The pop-up error says External table is not in the expected format.Could you please explain.

Best,

Shubham