Where does Qlikview save authorization information

[apurvkolte]

We have some Qlikview dashboards and their authorization is saved on QMC --> User Documents --> Authorization --> All Authenticated Users.

Does Qlikview store this information is a separate file somewhere on the server, like XML ?

[PadmaPriya · Accepted solution]

Hello @apurvkolte 

Please refer to below article:

QlikView Security – Authentication, Authorization, Types of Securities

https://help.qlik.com/en-US/qlikview/April2020/Subsystems/Server/Content/QV_Server/QlikView-Server/Q...

Thanks,

Padma Priya

[rwunderlich · Accepted solution]

If you are running QlikView in NTFS mode (the default), those permissions are set in the Windows File Permissions --ACL. 

If you are running QlikView in DMS mode, the permissions are stored in the dashboard.meta file associated with each qvw.

-Rob

[apurvkolte]

Thans for this information, is there a way to read and update this out of Qlikview from either a C# or Java based application ?

[rwunderlich]

NTFS mode?  You can use the icacls command or other windows tool/api. 

You may also be able to do something with the QMS API. 

-Rob

[apurvkolte]

Sorry for not clearing before, we are using dashboard.meta. Can we use icacls or QMS API with meta files ?

[rwunderlich]

Only QMS API for DMS mode.