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Copper Blue Consulting Ltd is a team of experienced data specialists and consultants. We architect, deliver and deploy end-to-end Business Intelligence solutions for a range of verticals. We passionately believe in:


Giving you the Right Data
... at the Right Time
... to the Right People
... in the Right Format.

We are available for small projects right through to larger projects. Please contact Allan Mitchell and Jen Stirrup for more details.

Cross Browser Support in Power View

Sun, 04/22/2012 - 10:23 — JenStirrup
Currently, Power View is supported by a number of browsers: IE, Safari, and Firefox. What about Chrome? I've opened a Microsoft Connect case about this, and you can go and vote it up or down here.

For the full list, please take a quick look at the Microsoft documentation. I've taken an excerpt from the original Microsoft 'Planning for Reporting Services Browser Support' article, and here is the table below:


Browser
Windows
7
Windows
Vista
Windows
Server 2008 R2
Windows
Server 2008
Macintosh
OS 10.6
– 10.7 (Intel-based)
Internet
Explorer 9
32-bit,
64-bit
32-bit,
64-bit
32-bit,
64-bit
32-bit,
64-bit
Not
supported
Internet
Explorer 8
32-bit,
64-bit
32-bit,
64-bit
32-bit,
64-bit
32-bit,
64-bit
Not
supported
Internet
Explorer 7
Not
supported
32-bit,
64-bit
Not
supported
32-bit,
64-bit
Not
supported
Firefox
7
32-bit
32-bit
Not
supported
32-bit
Not
supported
Safari
5
Not
supported
Not
supported
Not
supported
Not
supported
32-bit,
64-bit

Chrome isn't listed as one of the supported browsers. So, if you try and use Chrome for Power View, then it wouldn't be supported and you may run into issues. This does not mean that it doesn't work, and you might try it out and find that it works perfectly.

However, I have run into issues at a client site in using Sharepoint, where the default browser was Chrome rather than IE. The issues were easily resolved by switching to a supported browser.

I guess that the technical authors don't list out unsupported browsers since it might be 'chartjunk' to do so. In other words, in order to keep the document as straightforward as possible, they've just listed out the browsers that they do support, rather than the plethora of browsers available that they haven't tested for Power View. Other browsers include SimplePie, Lightning, Rockmelt, to name a few. Then you might also want to include 'preview' browsers as well, such as Bing Preview, whereby you 'preview' a page before you link on it. It would be nice to do this in Power View as well.

In order to assess the requirement for Chrome, I've opened a Connect case here. If you've got a need for Chrome and Power View together, then you can vote and comment at the case.   As always, you're welcome to comment here, too, or over on Twitter.

Copper Blue International Events

Sat, 01/14/2012 - 22:42 — JenStirrup

Lisbon, Portugal SQLSaturday Event at the Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, 17th March

SQL Server MVPs Allan Mitchell and Jen Stirrup, joint owners of Copper Blue Consulting, will be giving individual presentations at the SQL Saturday event in Lisbon, Portugal on 17th March. This event will be held at the beautiful Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, Rua de Santa Marta, nº 56, Lisbon, 1169-023, Portugal. Admittance to this event is free, all costs are covered by donations and sponsorships.

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