I'm screwed... I just lost 6 of 8 QVW documents that fail to open using personal edition and I think it was because I downloaded a QVW from this site. Could that be?

[#1]

I spent the last two weeks really working hard to impress my boss with this product and to introduce this to our company.  I loved the product until now.  I created 8 dashboards in all sorts of configurationa with our Company data.  Then I made the mistake of downloading a sample document from this site to try a sample someone posted.  Suppose that QVW is licensed and mine is a personal edition and is not.  Will that, could that have caused that 6 of 8 QVW documents I was working on that day have cause me to be locked out from them?

There is no other reason I could see for this as all documents were working fine and I was moving between them through buttons seamlessly.

Could this be possible???

I have a demo meeting with managers on Thursday.

The documents won't recover for me.  What to do to do now?  Is a timed license available to complete this demo?

Personal Edition FAQs

[Anonymous]

hi

for personal editin you wouldnt beable to open others documents

1.have u created those documents on ur system and trying to open on ur

manger system.then thy wnt open.

2.if thy are created by u nd u r nt able to open. (just chk if u gvn any

section acces)if not try opening thm frm start page.

[#3]

You can always open documents created by you there will be no problem

In the image i can see a checkbox yes click on continue go ahead and click on continue

If u want to open with out any issue find a licence key from one of your collegue friend

And then u can open any doc u want

Remember u can always open what u developed on your personal edition

[ramasaisaksoft]

Hi Draper,

if you have Desktop personal edition in your machine without license you can't open those qvw's more than 5/7 times (Some restrictions are there for non licensed versions) even though you developed them.

for your problem

-->ask to some one your team License  provide

--> share your files to some one who have QV license in their machines and open those files in their machine and gave demo

Note:- if it is not possible create one more time your applications and don't close them in your machine and don't shut down your machine also.

[#5]

These were all developed by me and nobody else in the company has QlikView.  There are no licensed or unlicensed copies out there anywhere in our company.

I had no issues prior to opening samples downloaded from the community web site.  Those of course went into the download folder.  I had no issues developing these on a share drive and still open two of the files.  This means other people have access to this location and the QVW objects but they have no QlikView installed on their machine.

There are a total of eight QVW files.  Two of them still work.  Six of them are in the same state of failure.  On two occasions I tried to recover a file from the group of six with no success.

I am on a laptop that I take home every night.  The files remain in the share drive because I am a contractor.  They stay on the network drive.  Why can I still access two files that still open for me while the other six are locked out?

The only new dynamic to my work us the introduction of downloads from this community site.  How then is it possible I was able to read shared QVW files with a personal edition if the's downloaded samples were created by licensed versions.

What rules apply to give me the ability to see what you upload here as samples and solutions?  They opened seamlessly and I was so fearful of breaking something by so doing.  Sure enough.  I'm locked out of my own work.

Why would failure attempts to recover also fail when checking the recovery option on the failure warning?

I read a solution that someone removed or renamed a file somewhere that was three letters in length and by so doing, they were granted access to their own work.  I have yet to log on to the system at work from my notebook to search for that three letter file.

If Rama Sai is correct, I would be loosing the ability to open the final two files before long or to test this theory by intentionally loosing access to the final two by opening and closing them more times.  But since all files are linked by buttons, they have been entered and closed many many times overy the past two weeks during the course of the day.  I will need to see what the sales department has to say.  If they at lease had a timed license they could issue to me I could at least make this presentation to my managers to buy this for me or not.  At this point I am very upset to be in this position where the company has invested lots of money in me hand now my hands are essentially empty.

Thanks for your contribution everyone.  I have no doubt that you have experienced something similar and your results are all honest replies.  Any new thoughts are most appreciated and I will keep you posted abut what I learn.  I have the feeling there is a deeper solution and we have not yet found the answer.  I'm going to consider the possibility of a defect causing this and will continue to search for an answer.

[#6]

https://community.qlik.com/thread/49755

I just found this link as a possible solution if I can locate where this PRG file or folder is located.  I will keep you posted.

Again, thanks so much for your thoughts and interest.  I'd really like to keep this job

Les

[flipside]

Hi Les,

I may be the bearer of bad news, I'm afraid, but the -prj folder is created by the developer and doesn't sound like it is the solution you need. When you create a new .qvw file and then create a folder with the exact same name of the file but with -prj at the end, then when you save the .qvw file, it also saves the structure of the document as .xml files in that folder. I'm assuming you didn't create this folder if you're looking for it.

I think the solution you need is either to contact Qlik or a Qlik Partner who might be willing to lease you a licence, or host it on an external Qlik server, so you can use the files for your demo.

flipside

[#8]

U should be able to open qvw u developed

Please check once from your side

Next ask some one a licence key please post your number here so that i will watsap u if i find any licence from my frnds

[MK9885]

You can still do the binary load from those file and get the data model?

And create new visualization all over again...

PRJ is used as version control and I guess it won't help you.

As suggested by Flipside, you can contact Qlik and lease the license or if you know someone who is willing to host your files on their server.

If the files doesn't have confidential data, you can upload here or share it with someone who has license, he can open it on his end and give you all expressions/scripts/variables you've created in your own.

Thanks.

[Chip_Matejowsky]

Hi Les,

Reach out to Qlik Support Customer Service. They may be able to put you in touch with an account team member and as you are evaluating QlikView for your company, the account team may be able to do something for you license wise.

Hope this helps

- Chip