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Internet Explorer 7 and PeopleSoft

Friday, 20 October 2006

With today's release of Internet Explorer version 7, I thought I'd write a quick post and let you know my experience with it and PeopleSoft. I've been using IE7 Beta for a while, and I haven't had any problems with it in terms of rendering or functionality not working.

Navigation is certainly different, and you'll probably want to warn your users about IE7's new look and feel before deploying it to their desktops.

I like the RSS (web feed) features of IE. I posted an article a while back about how IE might enable users to start getting PeopleSoft notifications through RSS instead of e-mail some day. This is something I'd certianly love to help you get going in your PS environment if you're interested.

The multi-tabbed browsing is nice because it eliminates the tons of stacked IE windows on your desktop, but opening PeopleSoft sessions in multiple tabs works about as well as opening multiple PeopleSoft sessions in multiple browser windows. The "most stale" tab drives your session timeout, and once you're logged out of one tab they're all logged out.

If you log in to different PeopleSoft instances (like Test and Production) in different tabs can create unpredictable results such as getting logged out of the first tab as you work in the second tab.

I've been told that Firefox 2.0 fixes these issues, but my experience has been different. I've pondered changing the cookie settings in the web profile to see if naming them differently in each environment might make tabbed browsing actually work well, but I've never got around to experimenting with it. Let me know if you have the secret, I'd certainly like to share a new best practice with the PeopleSoft community.

One thing your infrastructure team probably knows already but I thought I'd share anyway is that Microsoft Update has it marked IE 7 as a High Priority update, and starting November 1 it'll be pushed down to your clients the next time they run Windows Update unless you install Microsoft's tool to block automatic delivery.

So what do you think? Ready to roll this bad boy out to your user community?

Update 10/20/06: Yahoo Groups has some additional information in one of their discussion threads.

Comments (5)

Comment from Doris : Doris : https://epprd.uta.edu/psp/EP89PRD/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/signon.html/

The back button does not work. It gives a "web page expired" message. I followed IE's recommendation and uncheck “Do not save encrypted pages to disk” in Tools - Internet Options, cleared all browser history and restarted the browser. The back button still does not work. We are using IE 7.0.5730.11, PT 8.46.06.

Using Firefox 1.5.0.7, the back button works.

Btw., Firefox views all tab contents as the same session. If you try to use tabs in different PS instances, the cookies will overwrite each other. Naming the cookies differently in each instance should solve this, but I haven't tried it.

October 24, 2006

Comment from David : David

Can you verify that Ctl-J works properly in IE 7?

I have found that Ctl-J does not work properly in Firefox 2.0. Anyone else find this to be the case?

Thanks!

November 10, 2006

... : Brent Martin

Using the double-control-J is my preferred workaround. check out my post and subsequent comments at http://www.erpassociates.com/blogs/index.php/2006/05/15/firefox_tip_for_peoplesoft_ctrl_j. />

November 11, 2006

IE7 : RDXHHH

Hi,

1. A user of mine with Windows Vista IE7 after login through PIA gets "page cannot be displayed"
Is there any known steps to be followed to resolve it.

2. Also, another user with IE6 SP1 SSO does not work, no popup-blocker, browser enabled to accept cookies tried all settings also tried using mozilla still SSO does not work on a particular desktop???

Regards

RDXHHH

September 27, 2007

RE: IE7 : Brent Martin

I'm running IE7 and Vista every day with no issues. Check to see what URL appears when your friend gets the Page Cannot Be Displayed error. I'm sure you've done this but you might clear cookies and cache and add your PS site to the trusted sites list.

I assume you're talking about PeopleSoft SSO. Make sure the domains of the two web sites are the same, his browser isn't going through some weird proxy server for one web site but not the other, put both in the trusted sites... Can't think of anything else right now but we're getting ready for a big go-live and I'm sure I'll have lots of current experience with weird browser issues in about a month.

October 07, 2007

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