10) Advanced Topics

Backing Up Your Data

It is recommended that you regularly backup your QVGuard Studio Data Directory. You can find the location of this on the About sheet as highlighted below.

You could either backup this directory manually or configure you usual backup software to also include this directory. This is important because if you lose this data you will no longer be able to create valid licences for the QlikView applications you have already protected and delivered to your customers.

Implementing a Tracking Url

Users of the professional edition of QVGuard Studio can configure a Tracking URL on a per application basis as highlighted below:

The QVGuard Client will attempt to make a http GET request to this URL each time an end user reloads the QlikView application, appending the User's GVGuard generated ID (as highlighted below) to the url:

So, in this example as the application developer you would implement a http endpoint which would accept the following http get request:

http://www.mywebsite.com/trackmayapplicationusage.aspx?userGuid=???????????

And log any information you required, such as the time and IP address of the request. Please note that the end user may have a firewall or other network features in place which prevent this outgoing http request from succeeding. This is simply an additional way in which you can perform some level of tracking of usage of your applications.

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