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I am using the Personal free edition of Qlikview. I opened up a few QVWs created by other people on the message board and now I am getting this message when I try to open my own files.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have created so many critical QVWs that I need for work and now I am worried I lost everything.
Thank you,
- dave
Hi,
Using personal edition we cannot open the QVW's developed by other users.
Only using licensed version we can able to open the QVW's created by another users.
Using personal edition, we will have 5 instances where we can open others QVW's
Either your file is corrupted. Would you describe more, are you sure you only created the files. Because, you can access till 5 qvw's from other developer file. But, next one to open you must have the license. So, try to explain bit more
I created a qvw in the past ... Lets call it Qlik1
Then tonight, I opened a bunch of QVWs from the message board, trying to solve a problem.
Now when I go to open Qlik1, which I created many days ago, I get the error message
That Qlik1 might be opened by another user, did some changes and might save the file.
Since you are using personal edition, you were not able to open now
I am not sharing my files with anyone else.
I can open NEW files I create now, but anything I created before tonight I cannot open.
This has to be a known issue?
Using personal edition we can able to open up to 5 instances of other QVW's created by other users.
If not once try to run the QV setup file and try to repair the installation and try again.
Without qlikview licence we cannot open the QVW's developed by other users.
It happens like this:
Once you install QV desktop personal edition in a computer, QV assigns a key to it internally. Once you create a qvw file that key gets embedded in the qvw file. Now this qvw file can be opened from your system (since that has the same key) and systems that has a valid license. When you try to open a file created by somebody else, it would find a mismatch in the key and warn you - if you open that file your system key gets changed to that of qvw (from somebody else). Now if you wish to open qvws that were created by you - qv finds that they are having different key, so it warns you (even if it was created by you). If you open the file forcefully your system gets back the key and then be able to open all the qvws were created by you earlier. But note here, in this process you have lost two chances of recovery (read -'key change') out of maximum four chances.
That means, if your fourth chance gets a foreign qv key (from other user-created qvw) you would not be able to open your own files anymore. Hope this helps.
Is there any way Qlik can help me? Is there some type of support team? This was an accident and now I am locked out of several of my files.