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Interactive HTML - catch problems

Status: Acknowledged Submitted by on ‎09-22-2023 09:30 AM
12 Comments (12 New)

☐ cool new feature
☑ could help many users!

☑ removes a „bug“ (although it's mainly not a Jmp bug

☐ nice to have

☐ nobody needs it

 

 

What inspired this wish list request? 

 

At the moment, when I want to share an interactive Jmp file via Teams or Sharepoint, my colleagues just see:

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... and think that there is an issue with Jmp - or an issue with my Jmp file.

 

For them, it's hard to find out that actually it's a Teams / Sharepoint  issue with the interactive JavaScript code.

 

interactive html in Teams Channels 

 

What is the improvement you would like to see? 

 for a future version of Jmp, would it be possible to slightly change the code of the interactive HTML?

Instead of starting right-away with the start animation,  the HTML code could check if Java Code can be executed and if not: show a warning that it's actually the browser or the site which prevents the page to be loaded correctly. Then it could show a suggestion to download the file and open it from the hard drive.

 

Why is this idea important? 

MS Teams, Sharepoint and Onedrive is used in many companies.

Not every Company with Jmp licenses has a Jmp Live Server.

 

Therefore, users share interactive HTML files via Teams and Sharepoint - more and more in the future ....

 

If there are non-functional files, which were generated by Jmp,  this will "fall back" to Jmp.
The new functionality will make sure that users understand the ussue and that they know how to make the files work.

 

Alternative solution:
- Use in interactive HTML a code that is accepted by Teams/Sharepoint

- align with MS how to solve the issue

 

 

 

 

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12 Comments
John_Powell_JMP
Staff
Staff
Friday
Friday

Hi @hogi , 

 

Thanks for trying this and providing feedback. 

 

The detection of an environment that prevents JavaScript from running isn't specific to Teams or SharePoint. Our Interactive HTML files are being shared in many different ways. Here are a few examples:

 

  1. As an email attachment. Previewing HTML files with JavaScript is often disabled for security reasons. 
  2. On a web site. It is also possible that this restriction is encountered on a mobile device, where downloading to a hard drive is not meaningful. 
  3. On a shared network drive or shared as a zip file, or other media and extracted to a hard drive. If the file is opened in a browser with JavaScript disabled we'll detect that.

We will consider extending the message to offer more advice. The trick is to do it in a way that will not confuse some users. 

 

Thanks, 

-John

 

 

  

hogi
Level XII
Friday
Friday

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