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We currently use qlikview IE plugin functionality to run some macros (VB scripts that picks up certain cell values based on user selection and pass it on as arguments to a script invoked on linux server). This makes users to open reports only in IE. Does Qlikview plans to extend this plug-in functionality to other browsers in near future? With IE gradually fading out, this is concern. What options do we have in future for this scenario? Does Qlik plan to roll out plug-ins to run macros on other browsers as well ?
It is more how the operating system (in the case of QlikView, Windows) supports VBS.
For one year (https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2019/08/02/update-disabling-vbscript-internet-explorer-windows-7...) Microsoft has been disabling VBS on more products and platforms (a summary, here: https://www.howtogeek.com/437372/what-is-vbscript-and-why-did-microsoft-just-kill-it/), and moving towards web technologies such as javascript.
You may want to explore how to make the functionality those macros provide moves to a javascript program instead.
The use of QlikView IE Plugin has also some important security and performance considerations, the main one for me being that the communication by default with the Plugin happens from the client to the server directly (using Qlik's proprietary QVP protocol), while the Ajax client connects to a web server first (the QlikView Web Server) and from there to the QlikView Server (using HTTP).
If you ask me, in these terms of security and performance, the Ajax client should be the only viable moving forward.
In addition to the other post, here is another Community post where Product Management left a post regarding road map for the Plugin client:
Regards,
Brett