Section Access Myths: Nothing or Null means different things in QV Development Client and Accesspoint

Nothing or Null on reduction column will look like complete set of data in QlikView Development Client but when document is hosted in Accesspoint users having that access will not be able to get through.

Ok let me explain with an example on what I mean here.

1In above section access script I struck two rows (of NTNAME column) for security reasons, so i’ll put some dummy values for explanation purpose here. One has blank value and other one has * value on reduction column.

ACCESS, NTNAME, COUNTRY

ADMIN, ABC,

ADMIN, XYZ, *

Other important points to note on the above screen shot are:

  • Value ‘India’ on reduction column is not assigned to anybody
  • NTNAMEs that I have used other struck are dummy names

QlikView Desktop Behavior:

User having ” * ” on reduction column – Row with India is missing.

2User having ” ” (Null) value on reduction column – Can see India record.

3Accesspoint Behavior:

User having ” * ” on reduction column – Will have similar access as Desktop user.

 

2User having ” ” (Null) value on reduction column – Will not be able to open up the dashboard, prompted with below pop-up.

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Conclusion: So Null or Nothing doesn’t mean everything at least in QlikView Accesspoint.

 

 

 

QlikView Accesspoint as server landing page

General template of getting into QlikView Accesspoint is as given below

http://servername/qlikview

What if I need to make QlikView Accesspoint as landing page even if I request like below

http://servername

Since we have two different webserver options in QlikView, it is better to aware on both of those.

While using QVWS achieving this requirement is single step process, follow below step that’s all you are done.

Step 1: Just add blank Name record with value similar to QLIKVIEW has “C:\Program files\QlikView\Web”.

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In case of IIS server one additional below step needs to be done.

Step 2: Copy the files from QlikView folder to Default root folder of IIS server (except web.config file you can copy the rest).

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We are done, now the landing page with server name has been changed to QlikView Accesspoint instead of IIS homepage.

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Note: No need of restarting any windows services.