QlikView 12 - IE Plugin

[umartareen]

Hi,

I am in the process of Upgrading a QlikView server to 12.10. I am having the below questions.

1. Where do we find IE Plugin for QV 12.10 version?

2. How should the plugin be upgraded? (Should this be installed on every user PC)? Could you please provide the steps.

Thanks

[Peter_Cammaert · Accepted solution]

1. In the same place where you got the installers for the server software (the Qlik downloads page). The IE Plugin is a separate download called QvPluginSetup.exe. The plugin software used to be available from the installed server as well. Check server directory C:\Program Files\QlikView\Server\QlikViewClients\QlikViewPlugin to see whether this still applies.
2. It needs to be run/installed on all client machines where the Plugin should be available. You can either run the installer manually, let each user download and install the plugin by themselves (requires elevated privileges) or use your standard software distribution mechanism to perform a silent installation if you manage large numbers of PCs.

Best,

Peter

[umartareen]

Hello Peter,

Thank you for the response.

As per your answer to the 1st question, I do see QV Plugin setup as seen below. and following questions.

1. However, when the server is upgraded, would the upgraded setup also be replaced in this folder? Or this would need to be downloaded separately, placed onto this folder and run again?

2.Can the same Plugin setup be distributed to all the clients using IE and ask them to install the same on their machine?

Thanks

[Peter_Cammaert]

1. Yes. No.
   Keep in mind that for recent versions of QV12, there is no separate installer for different Windows versions anymore. There is only one Plugin installer to doanload from Qlik Downloads, so I'm assuming there will be only one left in the location of your screenshot.
2. That depends on whether your Windows versions are all fairly recent, whether your users are allowed to install software at all, and whether all platforms are running a 64-bit OS (no more 32-bit plugins since a while).

Keep in mind that Qlik has halted development of the Plugin in v12.20. The AJAX client has reached feature parity (so they say) and therefore the plugin will not be maintained any further.

Best,

Peter

[umartareen]

Hello Peter,

In the second point you have mentioned as below and following are a few more questions.

"It needs to be run/installed on all client machines where the Plugin should be available" - Where should the plugin be available?

"You can either run the installer manually, let each user download and install the plugin by themselves (requires elevated privileges)". - Where should this installer be run manually? and from where and how will the users download to install?

Sorry about the naïve questions, but I am fairly new to this and have no idea.

bbt‌ - Could you please help me go about this?

Thanks

[Peter_Cammaert]

"...Where should the plugin be available?..."

I don't know. That's for you to decide. Imagine that you have 100 QlikView users with desktops/laptops. 20 of those should be able to use the IE Plugin, the others can rely on the AJAX clients. Then you need to install the IE Plugin on the personal computers of those 20 users.

"...Where should this installer be run manually?..."

On the machines of the users that should be able to use the IE Plugin to visit documents in the QlikView AccessPoint.

"...and from where and how will the users download to install?..."

From the QlikView Server machine. As I explained before, the Plugin installer resides somewhere on the server as well. The AccessPoint can make a link available to download the installer to a users laptop/desktop for those that need the plugin but don't have it installed already. After clicking that lin kand downloading the installer, then it's just a matter of double-clicking the installer executable (or confirming immediate execution in the dialog that is shown).
See the bottom of help article AccessPoint Settings - QlikView

[umartareen]

Okay thank you very much !

How about I circulate the IE Plugin .exe file (which is downloaded from qlik.com > Services > Customer Downloads), to users on an email or something, and ask them to download and run? would that work?

Thanks

[Peter_Cammaert]

You mean the installer executable?

The installer for the v12.20 plugin has a size of 36MB. Don't you think your email system would balk at that?

I think a better solution would be to put the installer on a file share on your company network, and send an email with network path and instructions to each user.

[Bill_Britt]

HI,

To start the Plugin is installed on the server at C:\Program Files\QlikView\Server\QlikViewClients\QlikViewPlugin on each upgrade.

If the user has the QV desktop the plugin is install on the client machine when the desktop is installed.

This Plugin Client is available from the download side. You can also for an upgrade through the Opendoc.htm.

To do this you will need to back up opendoc_fix.htm & opendoc.htm

delete opendoc.htm and then rename opendoc_Fix.htm to opendoc.htm

uncomment

<!--

    Uncomment this section and change version if necessary to get automatic plugin installation

    <object classid="CLSID:6E1BAAF6-ECB9-4505-86C1-5D04467B02CC" codebase="/QvPlugin/QvPluginSetup.msi#version=10,0,9999,0" viewastext></object> -->

This is the Key 10,0,0,9999,0  if the plugin is below this value, it will give them the option to upgrade. So, look at the Product version  of the plugin value you want to up grade to and use that value 12,20,20400,0 and you will need to replace QvPluginSetup.msi with QvPluginSetup.exe.

Then when the user tries to open a document they will see. Attached is the upgraded opendoc.htm.

I don

[umartareen]

Hi Bill,

Thank you for the response.

So on a multimode environment, would the "C:\Program Files\QlikView\Server\QlikViewClients\QlikViewPlugin" folder be present only on those machines which run QVS service?

Thanks