QlikTip #41: Exporting Current Selections for Excel Export in Ajax/Mobile Client

In one of my previous posts I explained how to enable the automatic integration of current selections within the Excel-export of QlikView Desktop or QlikView IE-Plugin.

I received a lot of eMails how to force this for the Ajax-Client and/or Mobile-Client, here’s the answer:

Setup for QlikView Server

Open the settings.ini file for your QlikView Server.

This file is located at

• Windows Server 2008
  C:\ProgramData\QlikTech\QlikViewServer\
• Windows Server 2003
  C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\QlikTech\QlikViewServer\

Within the section [Settings 7] add the following line (doesn’t matter where):

SelectionStampInBIFFExport=1

Then restart the QlikView Server Windows Service.

The result

Now for all data sent to Excel this will result into: