Connecting to Qlik View

Connecting to Qlik View

Question

How do we connect Digital Hive to Qlik View?

Answer

As a Digital Hive administrator, connecting to Qlik View can be accomplished via the following steps:

Install the QlikView NTFS Auth Application

  1. In your extracted Digital Hive installation archive, locate this folder <DigitalHive installer location>\DigitalHive-installer-win-x64\QlikView NTFS Auth
  2. Copy the contents of the QlikView NTFS Auth folder to your QlikView web server
  3. In Notepad (or any plain-text editor), open application.properties and set the server.port and server.port.http properties. For example
  4. Edit startTheiaAuth.bat and replace the default, C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_65\bin\java with the actual Java path on the server
  5. Launch Command Prompt as Administrator and execute startTheiaAuth.bat

Adding a QlikView connector in Digital Hive

  1. Launch Digital Hive and login with an admin account
  2. Click your avatar (initial on top right)

  3. Select Manage Digital Hive
  4. Click Content
  5. Click 
  6. Click
     
  7. In the Give it a name section, enter a name, for example I have called it QlikView
  8. In the Choose the version section, select the version of your QlikView server
  9. In the System Credentials section, enter the user name, password and Namespace information of a system account that has access to everything
    NOTE: Namespace is the User directory in QMC
  10. For the Your Account section, enter a user that we can use to authenticate with to finish the configuration. Assuming, you have a Qlik Sense account, select A different account, and enter the Username, Password and Namespace
  11. In the Server information section enter the Qlik Web Server and Qlik Management Server URLs
  12. In the Properties section Enter the Qlik Management Port Number (provided by QlikView admin), Service Key (provided by QlikView admin), theiaAuthPortNumber (this the port number that you entered in step 3 of Steps to Install the QlikView NTFS Auth Application).  For example:
  13. Click 
  14. Click DONE
The QlikView connector is now created and you can now add content.


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