[ale] Awful story...

[Jeff Lightner]

You can download Excel with Firefox but can't do the check in/check out.
They may prevent you from doing the download if you're not doing the
check out.  Of course SharePoint/MOSS is made by M$ so its not
surprising they aren't interested in making it compatible with other
browsers.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Jerald Sheets
Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 11:08 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
Subject: Re: [ale] Awful story...


On Nov 16, 2009, at 10:56 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:

> 
> I have been bit with the lock-in problems with nosharepoint which
> won't let me download a freakin' excel file since I don't have ie and
> all of it's problems. So I punt that to a manager-type and they can
> email the file. Ditto with visio files (which can get converted to
> powerpointless).


Which is strange, because I had hoops to jump through, but I could use
Linux to download files from Sharepoint at my previous job.  

My current job reports the same Sharepoint version as we had before, so
I'm guessing there's a settings thing somewhere.  You'd think maximum
compatability would be a goal.  >shrug<

--j
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