Simply put, QlikView 9 Personal Edition (QVPE) is the full QlikView 9 Desktop product that is run on a machine without a customer or partner license assigned to it. With QlikView 9 Personal Edition license, everyone is free to create QlikView documents for personal use. If at any point you or your organization decides to acquire a full QlikView license, this QVPE installation will automatically become a full QlikView client without requiring any additional software.

If you have never licensed QlikView before and want to use the tool to perform analysis on any sort of business or personal data set, or have an existing QlikView installation and want to try out our latest release (version 9.0 SR1), QVPE is for you; download and start connecting to all of your data sources and building your analysis applications.

There are only two limitations while using QlikView with the Personal Edition license:

• QlikView Personal Edition works with local files only; you cannot share your QlikView file with another unregistered user, or load a QlikView file from another user (except for specially modified files, more on that here).
• You cannot import an entire document layout (sheets/objects/security settings, etc. without the data) into QVPE.

Please read carefully: Technically, every document is now saved with a user key -- information that ties that file to the file's creator. In Personal Edition, users can only open files that they have created.

We recognize that it may be necessary to install QlikView on a different computer (i.e. computer upgrade, replacement, etc.). In order to open documents created using the previous installation of QlikView, you will need to "recover" the files. Recovering files simply means that you are assigning an updated user key (old machine -> new machine) to these documents. When you recover a file, you are telling QlikView that you are moving this file to your new installation, and you will no longer be using it on your previous installation.

IMPORTANT: QlikView Personal Edition is limited to four recoveries per installation. When you recover a QlikView file created with a previous installation, it will apply your new user key to ALL documents created using the previous installation, not just that particular file.

DO NOT attempt to open QlikView files that you did not create (from the forums, created by a colleague, etc.) Doing so will use one of your remaining recovery attempts, and once you have exhausted all 4 of the attempts, you will no longer be able to access documents that you have created and, from that point on, you will only be able to create new documents using your current QlikView installation.

In order to help you learn more about QlikView, we have created a file repository called Share QlikViews where you can download example files, how-tos, etc. that will open without using Document Recovery. You can access those files here.

Yes. We post new releases on the web using our QlikView download page. You can redownload QlikView at any point and install an updated version on your existing machine and continue working with documents that you have already created. NOTE: If you have exhausted your recovery attempts, downloading a new version or redownloading the same version will not reset the counter.

QVPE users do not qualify for telephone or email support from QlikTech. As a Personal Edition user, you can gain excellent QlikView support through our active user community, QlikCommunity. We've created this dedicated area of QlikCommunity for Personal Edition users to get to information on how to start using QlikView as well as allow you to interact with other members of the community. All of the content in this section is accessible to our members, but you must register with QlikView to post questions in the forum, download files and register for training.

As mentioned above, QlikView Personal Edition can only open files created locally by that same installation.

(This message only applies to the QlikView 9.00 initial release. These errors have been fixed in subsequent versions; please download the latest release.)

• "Keylength has reached its maximum"
• This message is a cryptically-worded way of telling you when you have exhausted your four recovery attempts with QlikView Personal Edition. At this point, you will no longer be able to open files that you have created; however, you will be able to create new files. If you purchase a valid QlikView license, you will be able to open and edit all files that you have created using QVPE.
• I created files in QVPE and now they won't open...
• You may find that your install of QVPE suddenly stops allowing you to open QlikView files that you've already made, despite the fact that you haven't changed machines. BEFORE you recover there is one thing to check -- the status of your network connections. QlikView Personal Edition won't care whether you are attached to the network or not, or wireless or on a hardwired connection. But if your network adapters become disabled then QVPE sees your machine as a 'new' entity. If this is the case:
1. Do not take the RECOVER option
2. Check your network adapter settings
3. Re-enable your primary network adapters if they are disabled
4. Retry opening your QlikView file
• The tutorial files won't open...
• When we packaged QV9 we delivered example applications that you should be able to open with your instance of QlikView. We did not build these examples correctly and so on installing QlikView you will find that you cannot open these examples. Not good. So we have repackaged the examples and these can also be downloaded from the QlikView Download application as a separate ZIP file. Once downloaded, install into the Program Files/QlikView/Examples directory.

Instead of deploying multiple versions of our product, administrative and development rights are now controlled from within the QlikView environment. The only distinction in QlikView Desktop is that between a "licensed user" and an unlicensed (Personal Edition) user.

• If your organization does not have a QlikView license: Please contact the QlikView solutions team. They will schedule a time to evaluate your application, discuss areas of your business where QlikView can help, evaluate deployment options, and more.
• If your organization already has a QlikView license: Your QlikView file can be opened by registered QlikView users, as well as a QlikView Server instance. Simply provide your file to a registered user, and they can open and work with (or in the case of Server, distribute) the document that you've created.