Check IE-Plugin Version

[#1]

Hi,

we plan to move to Qlikview 9 in the near future. Unfortunately we have a big userbase that still has the IE plugin 8.5 installed.

Is there a way to check which version of the plugin a user has when he logs in via IE and then prompt him a message?

Cheers,

Flo

[vgutkovsky · Accepted solution]

Open the file C:\Program Files\QlikView\Web\QvAccessPoint.js and replace function CheckPlugin (which starts on line 502) with this:

function CheckPlugin() {
 pluginEnabled = false
 try {
 if(ActiveXObject) {
 var _ = new ActiveXObject("QlikTech.QlikOcxCtrl.9"); //checks for latest version of plugin
 pluginEnabled = true;
 }
 } catch(e) {}
 if(pluginEnabled != true && navigator.appName == "Microsoft Internet Explorer" && window.navigator.cpuClass == "x86"){
// This will just prompt the user with an alert box
alert ("You have an older version of QV Analyzer. Please update to version 9 now");
// Or disable the line above and use the following 2 lines to automatically prompt for plugin installation (first download the latest version of the IE Plugin and copy the file QvPluginRedist.exe into folder Program Files\QlikView\Web )
 window.location = 'http://servername/QlikView/QvPluginRedist.exe';
 pluginEnabled = true;
// Replace servername with the name of the server (not localhost)
 }
}

Save & close the file. You might need to restart your web server.

[#3]

Hey,

thx for the reply, this actually looks very close to what I imagined.

But unfortunately we are not using the accesspoint do deliver the reports (we embed the qvp:// directly) so I guess this script won't work.

But I have found this in the API guide:

msgbox(ActiveDocument.GetApplication.QvVersion)

With this script I should be able to set a var and then trigger some kind of popup.

Cheers,

Flo

[vgutkovsky]

Glad you figured it out. Feel free to canibalize the part of my script that checks whether the user is running IE 32-bit (the only one compatible with the plugin).

Cheers,