Find Answers
Qlik Community
Collaborate with over 60,000 Qlik technologists and members around the world to get answers to your questions, and maximize success.
Join Us
Contact
Find Answers
Join Qlik Community
Collaborate with over 60,000 Qlik technologists and members around the world to get answers to your questions, and maximize success.
Join Us
Get Support
Have a Question?
Search Qlik's Support knowledge database or request assisted support for your highly complex issues.
Submit a Case
Talk with a Representative
Critical Issues
Experiencing a serious product issue? Please Contact us by phone. Click here to view phone numbers and hours by region.
Contact UsWelcome Guest
Installed Qlik Products
My Environments
Log your environments to ensure faster and more targeted troubleshooting.
View Available Licenses
My Licenses
Understand your licenses to help you maximize your experience.
Knowledge
How to: Transfer server bookmarks between servers, domains, or users
Article Number: 000030759 | Last Modified: 2019/02/25Description
Can Collaboration Objects / User Objects be migrated when moving the QlikView servers? Can they be migrated if the server is moved to a different domain, or user names are being changed?
User Objects and Bookmarks are stored in the .SHARED or .TSHARED file residing in the same location as the QlikView document (.QVW). These need to be moved with the .QVW if the documents are relocated.
Ownership is identified by DOMAIN\UserID, or ServerName\UserID for local server users.
User Objects and Bookmarks are stored in the .SHARED or .TSHARED file residing in the same location as the QlikView document (.QVW). These need to be moved with the .QVW if the documents are relocated.
Ownership is identified by DOMAIN\UserID, or ServerName\UserID for local server users.
Without changes to the Domain or User Names
No extra steps are required. User Objects and Bookmarks owners are identified by DOMAIN\UserID. If this remains the same, only the .shared / .tshared file needs to be moved along with the .qvw.Moving Windows Domains or changes to User Names
This also applies if no Windows Domain is used, but users were logging in locally with ServerName\UserID.
There are three different methods that can be used to transfer over bookmarks, each suitable for different volumes that need to be administered.
In this example, the following setup is being used:
QlikView Server B is located in Domain2, has a user named euuser2. This user has one bookmarks.
QlikView is being migrated to QlikView Server A, located on Domain1, and the bookmarks need to be transferred to user1
The QlikView Administrator will have to edit the domain\ prefix for all available objects.
For ease of administration (view only, no editing supported!), refer to the Power Tools for QlikView and the Sever Object Handler (Note: as stated above, using different service accounts on the QlikView services may result in unexpected behavior, so ensure the same service account is in use on all services.)
Environment:
QlikView, any
Resolution
Method 1: Manual administrator in the QlikView Management Console.
Navigate to Documents > User Documents > YourQlikViewDocument.qvw > Server > Server Objects
Tranferring this bookmark can be easily achieved by clicking the "User" icon on the far right and moving it to the correct user. Any objects can be moved like this, but may lose their positioning on sheets and have to be re-added from the Repository by the user.
Method 2: ServerObjectHandler from our Power Tools Package
Note! This method is provided "as is", and that the power tools are not directly supported by Qlik technical support. You can obtain them from our Community. Ensure that backups of your .shared files are available.
Note! If this method is used to change server objects on sheets, the sheet positionings will be lost, and users will need to manually repopulate their sheets.
Execute the ServerObjectHandler, connect to the QlikView Server, and change the users/objects as desired.
Method 3: CleanUp toolkit
Note! Only available for QlikView 12. Cannot be used in QlikView 11.20.
For more details regarding the CleanUp tool, refer to Shared Files - Verification and Cleaning
Example:
C:\Temp\SharedFileToolTemp>qvs.exe -x "C:\ProgramData\QlikTech\Documents\Golf Quest.qvw.shared" –p -ro domain\olduser domain\newuser
-so will set owner -ro replace
-so will set owner -ro replace
Get Answers
Find Answers
Get Support
Have a Question?
Search Qlik's Support Knowledge database or request assisted support for highly complex issues.
Submit a case
Talk with a Representative
Critical Issues
Experiencing a serious issue, please contact us by phone. View phone numbers and hours by region.