topic Re: Launch URL in Internet Explorer Only in App Development

Launch URL in Internet Explorer Only

DataHound — Thu, 23 Dec 2021 18:23:25 GMT

Hi all,

I would like my app to open urls in Internet Explorer only. The end users in my organization use google chrome, however, the website I need to link to only run in internet explorer. The URLs to the site are stored in a table, and when viewing and filtering data, I would like for the end user to just click the link and pull up the website in IE, even if they are using the dashboard application in google chrome.

Is it possible to write a launch statement that forces the URL to open in IE? Or maybe there is another way of doing it.

Any help here would be appreciated!

Thanks!

Re: Launch URL in Internet Explorer Only

rodjager — Mon, 31 Aug 2020 23:00:07 GMT

Hi DataHound,

I have done this in QlikView, years ago, but not in Qlik Sense. The work around was to create a URL that referenced Internet Explorer and then use that to trigger opening the actual URL i.e.:

file:///C:/Progra~1/Intern~1/iexplore.exe https://www.qlik.com

Alternatively, if your organisation supports it, you could look at implementing a custom protocol handler to force the use of IE over the default browser eg iebrowse://google.com. I'm actually not even sure how well this is supported anymore, however, this Microsoft document may be of use:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/search/-search-3x-wds-ph-install-registration

Hope this helps...

Rod

Re: Launch URL in Internet Explorer Only

DataHound — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 12:51:10 GMT

Rod,

Thank you for your response.

I attempted a few different attempts and combinations of the URL. What is odd is that Chrome opens the iexlore.exe file as if it is a download without opening the link following the directory.

I am thinking the custom protocol handler, as you suggested, would untimely be the way to go with this.

Thank you!