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QlikView Server and Publisher

By : Stephen Redmond
Book Image

QlikView Server and Publisher

By: Stephen Redmond

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (15 chapters)
QlikView Server and Publisher
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Securing QlikView Documents


Making documents available to the correct users can be handled in several different ways, depending on your implementation and license structure. These methods are not mutually exclusive and you may choose to implement a combination of them.

By license

If you only have named Document users, you can restrict access to documents by simply not granting users a license. If users do not have a Document license for a particular document, they may be able to see that document in AccessPoint, but will not be able to open it.

You will need to turn off any automatic allocation of licenses for both Document licenses and Named User licenses, or the system will simply override your security by allocating an available license and giving the user access to that document.

This only works for Document license users. The Named User license holders can't be locked out of a document this way as they have a license that allows them to open any number of documents, so they cannot be restricted...