Distribute to specific users in Access Point without having Publisher

[kdmarkee]

How does one dictate what users get to see a Qlikview app in Access Point when the document is being distributed from QVS and Publisher is not involved at all? 

The first screen shot below is from QVS > User Documents and I do not see anywhere among the available tabs that this can be set.

The second screen shot is from Publisher > Source Documents.  That offers a way to distribute to certain users in Access Point.  How can I achieve the same functionality when Publisher is NOT involved?  Thanks.

[rwunderlich]

Document access is controlled by windows file permission.  The typical approach would be to group apps into folders, and then grant users access to folder(s).

-Rob

[kdmarkee]

Thanks for the info.  If I'm understanding correctly then...

So I hope that means I could publish to an isolated folder for this purpose and set permissions on that folder, and leave my original folder alone.  The original folder has all the apps that ARE published via Publisher, and I would need to keep that untouched and unchanged and let the Publisher tasks control access.

[rwunderlich]

I'm a bit confused. Are you using Publisher or not?

Publisher loads from source folder and outputs to an distribution folder mounted to Access Point. Publisher sets windows permissions per file (qvw) so files in the same folder may have different permissions. 

If not using Publisher, files are reloaded in place from the source folder and saved in the same folder.  If not using publisher, you must use windows dialogs to manually set permissions on individual files. This can be made somewhat easier by putting the documents in folders and setting windows permissions at the folder level.  But you still have to use the windows security dialogs, rather then the QMC.

-Rob

[kdmarkee]

Understood.  I have a need or use case for both scenarios actually, so I was just curious if my Publisher tasks can publish to one folder and then my non-Publisher  tasks publish to an entirely different folder since I need to manage the permissions differently.

[rwunderlich · Accepted solution]

Non-Publisher reload tasks -- Server reload tasks -- reload in place.  They don't move or copy the QVW.  If you want to "Publish" from a server task, that is create a copy in another folder, you would need to schedule your own batch process to make the copy.

-Rob

[kdmarkee]

Thanks, I'll have to try it.