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sludatamgr
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Is there anyone out there that has run into the issues of staff running WF reports on Macs and finding issues with compound Excel spreadsheets and XML? Have you established any policies concerning Mac users?
 
Posts: 2 | Location: Saint Louis University | Registered: June 10, 2005Report This Post
GCohen
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I can only tell you that the basic WebFocus is now being tested against the Safari browser as it is also available on Windows today.

Excel usage with WebFocus depends on the version you are using.


Release 7.6.9
Windows
HTML
 
Posts: 226 | Registered: June 08, 2003Report This Post
blaiss
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We have done a little testing with Intel Macs running Mac OS X 10.4 and find that some reports work, and some don't.

Our users are using Office:Mac X (Circa 2000), so compound reports do not work for them. I have not tried it with Office 2004, but there's a new version of Office to be released in the 'near future.'

Running under Parallels with Windows XP, our reports work without any problem, so that's what we're doing for now.


7.6.11, Windows
HTML, PDF, EXL2K
 
Posts: 5 | Location: Columbus, Ohio | Registered: April 22, 2005Report This Post
linus
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I know there's an issue with the xml files not populating the drop down boxes in mozilla in WF 7.1.3. But I think this was fixed in 7.1.4.


WF 7.7.05
HP-UX - Reporting Server, Windows 2008 - Client, MSSQL 2008, FOCUS Databases, Flat Files
HTML, Excel, PDF
 
Posts: 149 | Location: Dallas, TX | Registered: June 08, 2007Report This Post
Dan Kenny
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Compound reports in Mac Excel 2004 do not work -- we haven't submitted a case yet. It's low on our priority list, we're just trying to get basic deployable dashboard under Firefox for our Mac users, there's some pretty egregious behavior (plus being stripped out of the text editor, content block losing window geometry on tab switching) with Firefox in 7.6.2, affecting both Mac and Windows/Linux users.

Safari support sounds nice, but we're standardized on IE and Firefox so we'd much rather see the Mozilla support working first and foremost.


Regards,

-- Dan

University of Nebraska at Omaha
Prod: WF 7.6.2 Linux BID/MRE/DataMigrator
Test: Same
 
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