If you have a USB drive plugged in then select it from the dropdown menu, otherwise select the drive where you want to create your portable version of QlikView. The welcome screen will ask you where your portable device is located. Make sure that you have closed every unnecessary program and have stopped every unnecessary service before continuing with the next step. When you look in the Portable App Creator program folder you will notice that the “PAC Compiler.exe” program has disappeared and that a file called “Portable App Creator.exe” has been created. Once AutoIt has been unzipped and installed, click “Done” to close the PAC Compiler. Once downloaded, you will be asked where you want to unzip the software, selecting the default location is fine. If this is not the case, which is likely, you will be asked if you want to download the software. The program will check if you already have the program AutoIt installed. Once you have these requirements sorted out, you can use the following steps to create your own portable version of QlikView.Ĭopy the QlikView Desktop installer and Portable App Creator program files to your host PC. It is a nice workaround to get the personal edition running on a PC without admin rights though. You might also get this to work with a leased license, but I haven’t tried this out.
- A valid local QlikView license (optional): To make a portable version of QlikView, you need to have a valid local QlikView license, otherwise you can only run the personal edition and cannot share your applications between PC’s.
- I used a VM with a fresh Windows XP installation for this.
- A clean host PC: The PC that you create your portable version of QlikView on should be as clean as possible, with no prior installations of the software.
- Someone over at the forums already did all the hard work and put together Portable App Creator (PAC), a nice program that will automate the entire process.
Portable App Creator ( mirror) : Sure, some of us could probably hack something together using AutoIt and RegShot ourselves, but fortunately we won’t have to.I have not tested this with the 64 bit version. In this example I am using the 32 bit version of the initial release of QlikView 10. QlikView Desktop Installer: Download the version of QlikView Desktop that you want to turn into a portable version.To create a portable version of QlikView Desktop, you will need the following things: This post will show you exactly how you can create a portable version of QlikView Desktop that you can take with you on your USB drive and run wherever you want.
Until now, the only thing that was missing from my toolbox was a portable version of QlikView Desktop.
As a consultant, one thing that I have really come to rely upon is my collection of Portable Applications.