As a consultant, one thing that I have really come to rely upon is my collection of Portable Applications. Until now, the only thing that was missing from my toolbox was a portable version of Qlik View Desktop. Not anymore though. This post will show you exactly how you can create a portable version of Qlik View Desktop that you can take with you on your USB drive and run wherever you want. To create a portable version of Qlik View Desktop, you will need the following things: Qlik View Desktop Installer: Download the version of Qlik View Desktop that you want to turn into a portable version. In this example I am using the 32 bit version of the initial release of Qlik View 10. I have not tested this with the 64 bit version. Portable App Creator (mirror) : Sure, some of us could probably hack something together using Auto It and Reg Shot ourselves, but fortunately we won’t have to. Someone over at the Portable Apps.com forums already did all the hard work and put together Portable App Creator ( PAC a nice program that will automate the entire process. A clean host PC: The PC that you create your portable version of Qlik View on should be as clean as possible, with no prior installations of the software. I used a VM with a fresh Windows XP installation for this. A valid local Qlik View license (optional To make a portable version of Qlik View, you need to have a valid local Qlik View license, otherwise you can only run the personal edition and cannot share your applications between PC’s. 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. Once you have these requirements sorted out, you can use the following steps to create your own portable version of Qlik View. Copy the Qlik View Desktop installer and Portable App Creator program files to your host.
Step by step instructions to lease a license from your Personal Edition Developer and how to set up your Qlik View serer to allow license.
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