# Document Properties: General General document properties | Property | Description | | --- | --- | | Title | Here the title that is to be displayed
in the window caption can be entered. As default the document file name
is used. To alter it, enter the selection in the Title
edit box. | | Author | In the Author
edit box specify the author of the QlikView file. | | Save Format | In this group set the level of
compression for the QlikView files.

Compression: The options Medium and High substantially decrease the size of the QlikView file while sacrificing some load and save speed. Compression options set under Document Properties affect the current document. Compression options set under User Preferences affect all new documents.

[User Preferences: Save](https://help.qlik.com/en-US/qlikview/September2026/Subsystems/Client/Content/QV_QlikView/User_Preferences_Save.htm) | | Alert
Pop-ups | This button opens the Pop-up
Window Settings dialog where the default look of alert pop-up messages
can be determined. | | Help Pop-ups | This button opens the Pop-up
Window Settings dialog where the default look of help pop-up
messages can be determined. | | Alternate States... | Alternate States functionality is enabled by a QlikView developer. The developer invokes the Alternate States dialog by clicking this button.

[Alternate States](https://help.qlik.com/en-US/qlikview/September2026/Subsystems/Client/Content/QV_QlikView/Alternate%20States.htm).

Information noteDo not enable this functionality unless it is really needed in the QlikView Document. | | Memory Statistics | Click this button to save a table
file containing memory usage statistics for the current QlikView document.
This file can be read e.g. by QlikView for an analysis of memory requirements
for different parts of the document. | | Default Sheet
Background | The
Background Color for the Default Sheet Background of the document
window(s) can be customized by checking this alternative.
A color can be defined as a solid color or a gradient via the Color Area dialog that opens when clicking the button. Alternatively, it is possible to specify
a background image by checking Wallpaper
Image and clicking the Change button. This will open the Change
Wallpaper dialog where a picture file can be selected.

The background
image can be altered with the following options:

Image Formatting:

No Stretch: The image is displayed as is, which may cause masking problems.
Fill: The image is stretched in order to fill the sheet, without regard to aspect ratio.
Keep Aspect: The image is stretched as far as possible while retaining the correct aspect ratio.
Fill with Aspect: The image is stretched as far as possible while retaining the correct aspect ratio. Areas not covered are then filled by cropping of the image.
Tile: If this option is selected, the image will be tiled the as many times as space allows.

Horizontal
and Vertical orientation:

Horizontal: The image can be horizontally aligned: Left, Centered or Right.
Vertical: The image can be vertically aligned: Top, Centered or Bottom.

| | Use Passive FTP
Semantics | If the Use
Passive FTP Semantics option is checked, the passive Ftp semantics
will be enabled. The passive semantics option is used for communicating
with a server through a firewall.

[Open Internet Files or Open QlikView Document](https://help.qlik.com/en-US/qlikview/September2026/Subsystems/Client/Content/QV_QlikView/Open_Internet_Files.htm) | | Generate Logfile | To track the execution of the load
script select Generate Logfile. The
information that is shown in the Progress
window during script execution will be stored as qv.log. | | Timestamp in Logfile
Name | Puts a timestamp in the logfile name,
e.g. sales.qvw.2009\_02\_26\_12\_09\_50.log. The
setting is only available if the Generate Logfile
check-box is marked. | | Hide Unavailable
Menu Options | The setting Hide
Unavailable Menu Options is used in conjunction with the security
settings. Any menu options that should normally be grayed out, will instead
be completely hidden from the user. | | Hide Tabrow | The QlikView sheet tabrow may be
removed by checking Hide Tabrow.
In order to move between sheets use the Next Sheet / Previous Sheet actions or the
Sheet Toolbar of the View menu. It is also possible to use automation
control, which will e.g. make it possible to force the user to move between sheets
and even making selections in a specific order. | | Keep Unreferenced
QVD Buffers | The Keep
Unreferenced QVD Buffers setting overrules the normal procedure
whereby any automatically created QVD files are purged immediately after script execution, provided they
are no longer used by the document that created them. This setting should
normally be left unchecked. | | Legacy Fractile
Calculation | If the Legacy
Fractile Calculation check box is enabled, QlikView will use discrete values
as results from the fractile aggregation function. Deselect the
check box and QlikView will use an interpolated value, as known from the Percentile
function in Microsoft Excel. | | Disable Layout
Undo | When the check box Disable
Layout Undo is marked the layout undo buffer will be suspended.
This may be useful to prevent unnecessary memory consumption when deploying
certain QlikView documents. Each time a user or a macro changes the layout
a chunk of data is normally added to the layout undo buffer. In extreme
cases, the accumulated buffer data may cause problems when deploying documents
on a QlikView Server. | | Use WebView in Layout | Toggles WebView mode, which uses the internal web browser in QlikView to display the document layout as an AJAX page,
on and off. | | Default Export
Encoding | Use Default
Export Encoding to set the default character set for export in
new documents. Choose one of these option: ANSI, Unicode or UTF-8. | | Styling Mode | In the drop-down menu Styling
Mode choose the object style for all the sheet objects.

The Advanced mode makes it possible to configure several settings, such as the Sheet Object Style and the type of border to be used, set on the Layout page of the objects.
The Simplified mode also gives the choice of Sheet Object Style, but configures most settings automatically. It sets such things as Scrollbar Style and borders. Some settings can still be changed on the layout page of the objects.

| | Sheet Object Style | [](https://help.qlik.com/en-US/qlikview/Subsystems/Client/Content/QV_QlikView/Document_Properties_General.htm)[](https://help.qlik.com/en-US/qlikview/Subsystems/Client/Content/QV_QlikView/Document_Properties_General.htm)In the drop-down Sheet
Object Style select a style
for sheet object captions. The style selected will be used for all sheet
objects with a caption in the document. | | Tabrow Style | Under Tabrow
Style select one of the available styles for the tab row
appearance in this drop-down. The style selected will be used for all
tabs in the document. | | [](https://help.qlik.com/en-US/qlikview/Subsystems/Client/Content/QV_QlikView/Document_Properties_General.htm)Selection Appearance | QlikView supports several different
ways of presenting data and making selections in list boxes and multi
boxes. The QlikView Classic, Corner Tag, LED
and Led Checkboxes styles all use color coding for indication of selected, possible and excluded
values. The Windows Checkboxes
style and the LED Checkboxes
style mimic the standard Windows interface with a check box at each value. By choosing
a specific style in this control, it is possible to force the document to appear
in one style or another wherever opened. When using the selection styles based
on color, there are a number of different color schemes available. The
basic color scheme (green for selected, blue for locked etc.) cannot be changed,
but variations of tone and intensity are possible.

[User Preferences: General](https://help.qlik.com/en-US/qlikview/September2026/Subsystems/Client/Content/QV_QlikView/User_Preferences_General.htm) and [List Box](https://help.qlik.com/en-US/qlikview/September2026/Subsystems/Client/Content/QV_QlikView/List_Box.htm)

Style: Sets the selection style for the document. Select from among the available alternatives in the drop-down list. By choosing <User Default> the document will always be opened with the selection style set as preferred by the user under User Preferences on the computer where it is opened.
Color Scheme: Sets the selection color scheme for the document. Select from among the available alternatives in the drop-down list. By choosing <User Default> the document will always be opened with the selection color scheme set as preferred by the user under User Preferences on the computer where it is opened.
Transparency: Sets the transparency of the selection color in list boxes and multi boxes.

| | Tabrow Background | Specify a custom color to
the background of the tab row by clicking the corresponding Tabrow
Background button. |