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failed to open document on a network share

I'm getting a "Failed to Open Document" error when trying to open a qvw document on a network share from a button with an "open qlikview document" action. Note that:

- I have full access to that network share (if I copy-paste the document path on windows explorer the document opens up)

- If I copy that document on a local directory and make the button open it, it works fine (it opens the doc)

I searched the forum but I found only web and server-related issues, while this is is coming from qlikview desktop..

Any idea? Thanks

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Miguel_Angel_Baeyens

Hello,

Have you tried opening from UNC path? It's working here with \\server\folder\document.qvw (v9SR4)

Regards

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Author

I was using a UNC path; it is \\server\folder\folder\folder\folder\document.qvw

But I have the 9.00.7440.8 SR3 - maybe it's a bug and the SR4 fixed it?

Miguel_Angel_Baeyens

Haven't seen anything in the release notes regarding UNC paths. Have those paths some spaces or non-ascii characters?

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Author

Just standard alpha-num chars; it's \\s23e0000dpmqlik\PSupplyChain\Varie\Stock\Out\1234567890.qvw

Update: it worked with a network drive; if I map drive Z: to \\s23e0000dpmqlik\PSupplyChain, then opening Z:\Varie\Stock\Out\1234567890.qvw works fine. The problem here is that I can not map a network drive on hundreds of user pcs that already have their own network drives...

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We are aso experiencing issues with accessing documents that reside on "network share" like \\share1\.

We have include files that define paths to be used in QV Applications with the \\path\folder syntax.

Is it really best practice to use the "drive mapped network share" like z:\folder\ instead of (pure) "network share" ?! Does it make any difference?

kji
Employee
Employee

I had a look at the code and launching UNC paths from action does currently not work as "\\" is currently not recognized as the beginning of an absolute path. I made a fix for version 10.

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Will there be a fix for unc paths for version 9?