Xibo - powerpoint / IE question

[Novalee]

So we've been using Xibo successfully for some time now. But this morning all the clients have decided to tell us 'Navigation to the Webpage was cancelled' where powerpoints are usually displayed. Also, the powerpoints are opening in Powerpoint seperately as well. They don't usually.

 

Can't remember how it was set up now! Anyone got a quick fix for this? We recently updated to IE10 so perhaps that's affecting it, although that wasn't done since yesterday when they were all fine.

I think it's something to do with file association but can't quite remember.

Thanks.

[Trojan]

There's a registry fix to tell powerpoints to open in the webpage

 

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Word.Document.8]
"BrowserFlags"=dword:80000024

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Word.RTF.8]
"BrowserFlags"=dword:80000024

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Word.Document.12]
"BrowserFlags"=dword:80000024

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Word.DocumentMacroEnabled.12]
"BrowserFlags"=dword:80000024

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Excel.Sheet.8]
"BrowserFlags"=dword:80000A00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Excel.Sheet.12]
"BrowserFlags"=dword:80000A00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Excel.SheetMacroEnabled.12]
"BrowserFlags"=dword:80000A00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Excel.SheetBinaryMacroEnabled.12]
"BrowserFlags"=dword:80000A00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\PowerPoint.Show.8]
"BrowserFlags"=dword:800000A0

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\PowerPoint.Show.12]
"BrowserFlags"=dword:800000A0

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\PowerPoint.ShowMacroEnabled.12]
"BrowserFlags"=dword:800000A0

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\PowerPoint.SlideShow.8]
"BrowserFlags"=dword:800000A0

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\PowerPoint.SlideShow.12]
"BrowserFlags"=dword:800000A0

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\PowerPoint.SlideShowMacroEnabled.12]
"BrowserFlags"=dword:800000A0

 

Save that as a .reg file and run it on the xibo clients.

 

Should do the trick.

[3s-gtech]

You'll get this happening every time there's an update to Powerpoint as well. Get used to running the above .reg file every time you do updates.

[Trojan]

What I normally do is export the powerpoint as a .wmv and use that in xibo instead.. much more reliable.

[Novalee]

Brilliant! Thanks guys, worked a treat.