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Force / Encourage user to view Sharepoint site with Internet Explorer


Okay, very limited experience with Sharepoint, so please be gentle...!

We are running Sharepoint 2007 on our intranet for a smallish number of users. From what I can tell, when it comes to managing documents, checking stuff in and out etc, Sharepoint just works a lot better in Internet Explorer because of the ActiveX plugin.

Therefore, as a way to train our users to open the site with IE, is it possible to popup a message when the user visits the site with a non-IE browser, to ask them to use IE. Maybe I can insert a snippet of JavaScript into the page or maybe there is some option or technique available to make this happen.

Thanks in advance.


Solution

  • yes, if you find a javascript that does exactly that, you can easily include it in SharePoint by pasting the code in a Content Editor WebPart (with the tag) which you can add to your page.