Author Topic: HTML report with IE 11 (Read 6895 times)

kiesel · « **on:** September 08, 2014, 10:25:57 pm »

We give our model as an HTML report to our customer. They have recently upgraded to IE 11 (before IE 8 or 9). Now, they cannot open the HTML report anymore.
I could reproduce their problem with IE 11. When one tries to open the model the following message is shown:
"Error. Access denied."

It might be that there are certain default internet options of IE 11 which pose a problem. But which are these?

IE 11 is set for the whole company of the customer. They cannot go back to a former version.

Eve · « **Reply #1 on:** September 09, 2014, 09:33:12 am »

At a guess, I would say that IE 11 is blocking access to local files.

There may be security options that can be set, (I don't know them) but otherwise host it on a simple web server to avoid it the problem.

Donster · « **Reply #2 on:** November 11, 2014, 03:42:27 am »

Hi there,

I have a solution for you.

Once the HTML is generated, perform the following steps before distributing the files to your customer:
1. Generate the HTML package per normal then
2. Open the folder where it is generated with windows explorer (assuming you're using windows).
3. Right click ‘Index.htm’ then choose Open With… -> Notepad (or whatever text editor you like) from the context menu
4. Find the <head> tag and add a new (blank) line after the <head> tag
5. Copy the following html onto the blank line:
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=7" />
6. Save and Exit the file, then double click the index.htm file to open it

Sparx: this won't work forever; it would be great if you updated the HTML generator so that it generates the index.htm with support for new browsers.

I hope that it works for you!
Don

P.S. if your customers are using SharePoint (or other content hosting software), creating a folder in the document list then opening the folder in explorer view, then copying the files over makes it a nice way for them to share the contents internally (shared network) rather than them e-mailing the (.zipped) files or putting them on a file share internally. At least we've done that here and it works well).

skiwi · « **Reply #3 on:** November 12, 2014, 10:46:21 am »

See also thread on browser opening filesystem HTML.
I think you'll find that this sin't something Sparx can fix.

philchudley · « **Reply #4 on:** November 13, 2014, 12:53:38 am »

Which version of EA are you using?

I use EA version 11.1 build 1112 and the HTML generated from this version works just fine in IE 11

I seem to remember that this IE 11 issue was fixed by Sparx in EA version 11.1 (or maybe EA version 11)

Donster · « **Reply #5 on:** November 22, 2014, 02:07:09 am »

Hi there,

I've been evaluating version 11.1 and have confirmed this to be fixed.

Thank you for all your information!
Don

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