Internet Explorer 11 and BO 3.1

system · April 28, 2014, 2:30pm

Has anyone been successful in getting Business Objects 3.1 SP5 or 6 to work with IE 11? Our desktop folks want to move to IE 11.

I see on the SAP website that IE 11 is not a supported platform. But has anyone been able to get it to work?

hunt4fun (BOB member since 2009-08-27)

system · April 28, 2014, 4:22pm

It looks like you should patch it with SP7.
http://evtechnologies.com/state-of-the-sap-businessobjects-bi-4-0-upgrade-april-2014/

It may work in compatability mode.
In our case though even though IE 11 was stated to be partially supported for 4.1 SP2 it didn’t work in our case. Unsure what the exact issues were as this testing was carried out by the apps team that support the installs / patches.

Mak 1 (BOB member since 2005-01-06)

system · May 29, 2014, 6:26pm

Not sure if this will help you out at all, but IE11 offers a feature called Enterprise Mode. It’s brand new in one of the latest IE cumulative patches. This is/was intended to help enterprises move off of IE8 and onto at least IE11. The functionality allows for some websites that are identified to be rendered in IE8.

We tried it with our SP3/Tomcat 5.5 environment, but no dice. We are investigating an SP7/Tomcat 7 upgrade and will try again.

dusted (BOB member since 2003-09-18)

system · May 29, 2014, 6:30pm

I’ve installed SP7 and IE11 and they do work together. But this latest comment is worth a try in case the desktop group want to move ahead of the BO upgrade.

Thanks!

hunt4fun (BOB member since 2009-08-27)

system · May 29, 2014, 6:57pm

Just an observation;

XI3.1 SP7 and IE11 work flawlessly and (I personally think) SP7 is the best service pack ever released for 3.1.

Cheers,
Jim

jwaterbury (BOB member since 2007-09-21)

system · May 30, 2014, 7:11pm

jwaterbury - Does the schedule for BOE 3.1 SP7 work properly with IE 11 ? We have gotten an 404 using BOE 3.1 SP5 we are looking move to SP7.

Also, what version of BOE 3.1 were you on before going to SP7?

Thanks

kflknr (BOB member since 2014-05-30)

system · May 30, 2014, 7:26pm

kflknr,

We were also at BOE 3.1 SP5 and yes, we got the 400 or 404 errors when clicking History, Scheduling, and a couple of others (using IE 10 or 11). No issues with either version after applying SP7. Go for it!

Regards,
Jim

jwaterbury (BOB member since 2007-09-21)

system · May 30, 2014, 7:45pm

Thanks for your response, can I ask you a few more questions.

Is your application in a clustered environment ?
How many servers in the cluster ? Do you have a distributed environment more then 1 of the services running?
Were there any issues installing the SP7 How long did it take ?

Thanks again
K

kflknr (BOB member since 2014-05-30)

system · May 30, 2014, 7:53pm

K,

We applied SP7 to a 3-server cluster. Outside of the CMS, FRSInput and FRSOutput; all services are distributed. Applying SP7 took about 4 1/2 Hrs. start to finish.

Regards,
Jim

jwaterbury (BOB member since 2007-09-21)

system · November 4, 2014, 7:19pm

I was researching this issue as well and found this on SAp TECH SITE:

Support for IE 11 on Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 is planned for BI 4.1 SP03 and BI 4.0 SP09, both of which are available since March 2014.
Support for Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2, and Internet Explorer 11 is available for BOE XI 3.1 SP7 since April 2014.

our clients are windows 7, our java is 1.7, and our version 3.1 sp6 (windows server)…

we had a user who got a push to IE11 on wind7 laptop and Infoview would not allow a login.

are you using similar clients on your 3.1 sp7 version with IE11? Did you change the compatibility view on the clients?

thanks,

carol

carol.gottlieb (BOB member since 2008-10-01)

system · November 4, 2014, 7:24pm

We are using similar clients yes: Windows 7, Java 1.6, but we are using BO 3.1 SP7 and we are able to use both IE8 and IE11.

hunt4fun (BOB member since 2009-08-27)

system · November 4, 2014, 7:26pm

Great. The SAP said it wouldn’t work with Win7, so I was a little concerned.

and you didn’t encounter any other issues like scheduling, editing, saving, etc?

Carol

carol.gottlieb (BOB member since 2008-10-01)

system · November 4, 2014, 7:27pm

No issues at all.

hunt4fun (BOB member since 2009-08-27)

system · November 4, 2014, 7:29pm

did you have to change the compatibility mode?

C

carol.gottlieb (BOB member since 2008-10-01)

system · November 4, 2014, 7:30pm

I believe we changed it to Enterprise, yes.

hunt4fun (BOB member since 2009-08-27)

system · November 4, 2014, 7:30pm

SUPER. Thanks for the INFO!!

C

carol.gottlieb (BOB member since 2008-10-01)

system · January 7, 2015, 1:20am

Hello All

Has anyone specifically asked SAP support about using “BO 3.1 SP5” (or BI 4.1 SP1) with Internet Explorer 11’s Enterprise mode “EMIE”

We have built tools/automatin API plugins that will absolutely require updating if we have to service pack BO/BI

~Todd

tsimons_dti (BOB member since 2015-01-07)

system · January 7, 2015, 1:47am

If you are using BO 3.1 SP5 and IE 11, you should get problem when you select “Properties” on the WEBI reports (HTTP Status 400) and select “Properties/”“History” on publications (404).

summoner (BOB member since 2008-12-18)

system · January 7, 2015, 2:23pm

BO 3.1 SP5 will have issues with IE 10 and IE 11 is completely unusable.

jwaterbury (BOB member since 2007-09-21)

system · January 8, 2015, 1:50am

Yep, we’ve seen this, but don’t see it when using IE11 Enterprise Mode (aka EMIE)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn640687.aspx

I was wondering if anyone had done a full test with this IE11/EMIE turned on

Thanks!

tsimons_dti (BOB member since 2015-01-07)