You will have to license your personal edition. You cannot open other QVW's that were created by another user with personal edition.
When to use License Lease |
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Use License Lease if you don't have a QlikView Desktop license or if running out of QlikView Desktop licenses
Prerequisites when leasing a license
The following prerequisites must be met to lease a license from QlikView Server
- Small Business Edition or Enterprise Edition of QlikView Server
- Named user CALs
- CAL assigned to user
Settings in QlikView Management Console
The following settings are required in QlikView Management Console (QMC) on the QlikView Server
- System > License > QlikView Server > Client Access Licenses (CALs) > General > Check 'Allow license lease'
- System > License > QlikView Server > Client Access Licenses (CALs) > Assigned CALs > Select the specific user > Assign CAL
Leasing License from QlikView Desktop
In order to lease a license from QlikView Server the following steps needs to be done on the client:
Option 1: (If User domain and server authentication are the same)
- Launch QlikView Desktop client
- From the menu, go to File -> Open in Server...
- Enter the address to QlikView Server using the qvp protocol (example: qvp://myserver )
- Hit Connect
- Open a document. The license is now leased from the Qlikview Server
- Close and relaunch QlikView Desktop client. You should now be able to work with local documents and the client is fully licensed.
Option 2: (If custom authentication mechanism is used - v10 SR4 or later & v11 only)
- Open the QlikView Desktop client
- From the menu, goto Settings > User Preferences
- Go to the Locations tab and select QlikView Server AccessPoint (URL)
- Click the Modify... button
- Enter the URL to the QlikView AccessPoint, configured using Custom Authentication
- Click OK
- Click Apply then OK
- From the menu, goto Tools > Open QlikView AccessPoint
- Login using the custom credentials
- Open a document if a User CAL has not already been assigned. The license is now leased from the QlikView Server
- Close and relaunch QlikView Desktop client. You should now be able to work with local documents and the client is fully licensed.
What is QlikView Personal Edition?
- The full version of QlikView Desktop (not a trial version)
- Free of charge and license key is not required
- With QlikView Personal Edition you are free to create QlikView documents for personal use
- It is possible to upgrade to a newer version
Download QlikView Personal Edition
What are the limitations of QlikView Personal Edition?
- It only works with local documents
- Cannot share your QlikView documents with other users
- Cannot load QlikView documents from other users
- Cannot import an entire document layout into QlikView Personal Edition, e.g. sheets, objects, security settings without data
- DO NOT attempt to open QlikView documents that you did not create, such as documents from the forums or created by a colleague
What is "Document Recovery"?