Chapter 6. Configuring the QlikView Publisher

Without a QlikView Publisher license, the Reload Engine must sit on the same server as the QlikView Server, and it can only perform a reload of a QlikView document in the server folders with a restricted set of triggers. When we have a QlikView Publisher license, the Reload Engine transforms to being the QlikView Distribution Service (QDS), and we are no longer tied to the QlikView Server for reloads. The QDS can now be installed on its own server and many more task options become available. In this chapter, we will look at the configuration options for QDS, and look at the methods to create a couple of the more common tasks—reload as well as loop and reduce with manual distribution and automatic distribution, respectively.

The following topics are covered in this chapter:

• Exploring QMC Publisher components in detail. This includes the following topics:

  • System setup

  • Section Access Management

  • Source Documents

  • Supporting Tasks

• Creating tasks. These tasks...

Exploring QMC Publisher components in detail

We have installed QDS a couple of times now—once as part of a single QlikView Server installation and once as part of an enterprise installation on its own server (Server4). When we add the Publisher license, the QDS changes from a simple reload engine to the fully-functional QlikView Publisher. This process adds a number of tabs into the QMC. We have already seen some of these during the initial setup and configuration in the previous chapter. Now, we will look at the new tabs in detail.

System setup

In the previous chapter, we saw some of the system setups, where we configured the folders for the Publisher on the General tab. We will have a look at this tab a bit more now, as well as the other tabs.

General

On the General tab, we have already seen the Source Folders option, where we added several folders that we had configured to hold our QVW files (refer to the Creating the Publisher folders section in Chapter 5, Installing QlikView Server Enterprise...

Creating tasks

The main use of QlikView Publisher is to reload the documents, and then distribute them somewhere, all on a scheduled basis.

As described earlier, the reload task will use the QlikView Batch (QVB) executable file (QVB.exe) to execute the script and refresh the data in the file.

We also have the option to run a loop and reduce task across a field in the document, and create multiple versions of the document that only have the data associated with each field value. For example, we might select the Sales Region field, and the loop and reduce process will create one QlikView file for each region, each file only containing the data for that region.

Distribution is the process of moving the document to its final location. This could be a folder, an e-mail recipient, or mostly to a QlikView Server.

We will now look at creating reload and distribution tasks. We will examine a couple of different tasks as well as the commonly-used options.

Reloading a task with manual distribution

First...

Summary

In this chapter, we have taken a good look at the options that can be configured for QlikView Publisher. We have configured some reload and distribution tasks, including a loop and reduce task.

In the next chapter, we will look at alternatives to Active Directory (AD) for authentication.