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I have published a web publication using Opus V6. On one of the pages there is an action on a button to launch a web page, Google for testing purposes. When using the browser IE6 on my computer, the action works fine and Google launches in a separate window. When using another computer running IE7 the button does absolutely nothing. Is there a problem with IE7 and this action or am I missing something?

Is IE7 on Vista or XP?

Paul

Collin,
welcome to the forum.

Hard to say what's going on.
Browser object DOES work for Opus v6 in most Windows/IE setups.

I had a problem once, but don't recall right now what the 'hiccup' was. You might find some helpful info Searching the forum posts.

Please give more supporting details of the PC systems used. Also, how and where in Opus you have set the URL. Little things like "http:", etc. before the link might solve.

Hi All thanks for your replies. IE7 is running on Windows XP (fully updated). IE6 is also using Windows XP (fully updated).

I have checked the URL attached to the action and it is complete, and to check I have tried different URLs. They all work fine on my computer which is running IE6 but not on the one running IE7.

Also the action is a 'Launch web page' and it is linked to a button

IE6 on XP seems ok.
Using IE7 in Vista, the result depends on what the setting of destination frame is -- (_blank, _parent, _self, _top).

I'm assuming you are using the _blank setting -- nothing happens for me either. The other three settings (_parent, _self, _top) work but the browser gives an error message occasionally on exit.
I have other pubs that work ok in IE7, so it might just be this function that has issues with this browser.

Paul

colin

A quick check here verifies Opus v6 launches web page okay on IE7 and Vista32. All 4 of the settings Paul mentioned work the same for me.

Any chance you have some security or AV setting preventing the pop-up launch of a new browser? Have you tested embedding a Browser Object in an Opus page... just to see if that is 'broken' too?

I can't imagine any issues with WinXP, at least up to SP2. SP3 could introduce some security changes??

Are you seeing the problem when the Pub is published, or when in Preview Mode?

Thanks everyone for replying. I'm not aware of any security setting that I have running which will prevent other browsers opening on IE7, but I will check. My daughter has tried the site, which is published, and she can't get the action to work either. Her PC also runs IE7.

Hi Colin,

No this doesn't work Using Plexus and IE7 in XP or Vista won't let you launch a web page to new window for some reason. It doesn't seem to be a security setting or tab issue as I have one IE7 version with everything switched off for test purposes.

The good news though, is that in IE8 it seems to work again . You can change the default frame in Opus to launch in _parent which works fine just not the new window.

Maybe there is a setting somewhere - but then it's still a pain as users shouldn't have to change settings for basic things like this.

Mack

Many thanks macavi, I have tried to launch the browser action in _parent window and it does work fine in IE7. I'll just have to adjust my publication accordingly.

Many thanks to all who helped work this one out.

Colin