generated: '2026-08-29'
method: searched
source: https://help.qlik.com/en-US/qlikview-developer/September2025/Content/QV_HelpSites/APIsAndSDKs.htm
provider: QlikView
providerId: qlikview
description: >-
  Client-side and embeddable component surface for QlikView - the parts a developer drops
  into someone else's page or application rather than calls over the wire. QlikView's
  embedding story is unusual for this catalogue: the components are served by the customer's
  own QlikView Server (the AJAX Zero Footprint client at /QvAJAXZfc/) or installed into
  Visual Studio, not loaded from a vendor CDN, so there is no versioned loader URL a
  consumer can pin.
families:
  - name: QlikView Workbench (ASP.NET server controls)
    kind: server-side-ui-controls
    platform: ASP.NET / .NET
    description: >-
      Server-side controls that render QlikView objects, charts and selection surfaces inside
      an ASP.NET web application, so QlikView analytics can be embedded in an existing portal
      rather than accessed through AccessPoint.
    docs: https://help.qlik.com/en-US/qlikview-developer/November2023/Subsystems/Workbench/Content/QV_Workbench/server-side-controls.htm
    loader: Installed by the QlikView Workbench installer; added to the Visual Studio toolbox.
    licensing: Separately licensed QlikView add-on.
    components:
      - name: Server-side controls
        description: ASP.NET controls that host QlikView document objects in a web page.
      - name: Client-side (AJAX) integration
        description: >-
          Workbench pairs its server controls with the QlikView AJAX client so the embedded
          objects stay interactive in the browser.
  - name: QlikView AJAX Zero Footprint client (Qva)
    kind: browser-javascript
    platform: Browser
    description: >-
      The browser runtime QlikView Server serves for the AccessPoint. Its Qva JavaScript
      object is the public surface for building websites that contain QlikView content and
      for driving selections, documents and objects from page script.
    docs: https://help.qlik.com/en-US/qlikview-developer/September2025/apis/js%20API/
    loader: >-
      Served from the customer's own QlikView Server under /QvAJAXZfc/. Not published to npm
      or a CDN, so the version a consumer gets is whatever their server was installed at -
      the distribution is unpinned by construction.
    components:
      - name: Qva.GetDocumentList
        description: Enumerate the QlikView documents the current user may open.
        docs: https://help.qlik.com/en-US/qlikview-developer/November2023/Subsystems/AJAX/Content/QV_AJAX/qva-getdocumentlist.htm
      - name: Qva document/object API
        description: Open a document and render or manipulate its objects in the page.
  - name: QlikView Extension objects
    kind: custom-visualization
    platform: Browser (AJAX client)
    description: >-
      Custom visualization objects authored in JavaScript/HTML and installed into QlikView so
      they appear alongside the built-in chart types. This is the extension point the
      JavaScript API exists to serve.
    docs: https://help.qlik.com/en-US/qlikview-developer/September2025/apis/js%20API/
    packaging: >-
      Packaged as a QAR (QlikView Archive) file for installation. Community tooling exists
      for building them (npm gulp-qar); Qlik publishes no first-party build tool.
  - name: QlikView Plugin objects (COM)
    kind: desktop-extension
    platform: Windows / COM
    description: >-
      COM-based custom objects and extensions rendered by the QlikView Desktop and the
      QlikView browser plugin, as opposed to the browser-native extension objects above.
    docs: https://help.qlik.com/en-US/qlikview-developer/September2025/Subsystems/PluginAPI/Content/QV_PluginAPI/plugin-api-introduction.htm
not_present:
  web_components: >-
    No standards-based custom elements. Qlik's web-component embedding library
    (qlik-embed) belongs to Qlik Cloud on qlik.dev - a different product - and is not
    recorded here.
  hosted_prebuilt_ui: >-
    No vendor-hosted prebuilt UI. Everything is served by the customer's own installation.
  cdn_distribution: false
evidence:
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    status: 200
    fetched: '2026-08-29'
  - url: https://help.qlik.com/en-US/qlikview-developer/September2025/apis/js%20API/
    status: 200
    fetched: '2026-08-29'
  - url: https://help.qlik.com/en-US/qlikview-developer/November2023/Subsystems/Workbench/Content/QV_Workbench/server-side-controls.htm
    status: 200
    fetched: '2026-08-29'
  - url: https://help.qlik.com/en-US/qlikview-developer/September2025/Subsystems/PluginAPI/Content/QV_PluginAPI/plugin-api-introduction.htm
    status: 200
    fetched: '2026-08-29'
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com