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Why does "Open HTML Report in Broswer" crash on some machines?

I've been using the "Open HTML Report in Browser" subvi to generate simple printable reports from a control program, but the program hangs on the control system PCs. I am running Win2000 with IE on my programming box, but on the XP machines with IE and Mozilla running the LabView 7 runtimes the program will hang in the Open HTML Report subvi every time. Is there any known cause for this? Are there any alternatives?
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@rsd212 wrote:
I am running Win2000 with IE on my programming box, but on the XP machines with IE and Mozilla running the LabView 7 runtimes the program will hang in the Open HTML Report subvi every time. Is there any known cause for this? Are there any alternatives?




Hello rsd212,

The behavior we you are seeing is probably due to the security policies set up on your windows XP machine. Have you installed Service Pack 2 on the machine?

One way to check if is this is security policy issue is to force the report VI to open the browser with the System Exec VI instead of using DDE. You can do this by opening the Open URL in Default Browser Core subVI inside Open HTML Report in Browser -> Open URL in Default Browser and changing the code to always run the System Exec version and skip the DDE version.

If this works you can either keep the VI as is or revert to the original version and troubleshoot what security policy is preventing DDE from working on your computer.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Regards,

Matt
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