Setting browser security for Importing Data into P6 Web Access
Before importing resource or Outlook data into P6 Web Access, you must first give the browser permission to invoke scripting commands on the ActiveX control that is part of the data you want to import, such as Microsoft® Outlook or Microsoft® Excel. Since these applications are not generally used for Web scripting, they are not marked as "safe for scripting", and therefore web pages on sites that are part of your normal Internet zone do not have permission to run script commands on it.
To allow Web Access import features to invoke script commands on external applications, you need to make the P6 Web Access site a member of a zone that has the privilege "Initialize and script ActiveX controls not marked as safe". The "Trusted Sites" zone by default has this privilege set to Prompt, which is recommended for this zone.
Follow these steps to set up P6 Web Access as a Trusted Site zone for importing data.
Setting up P6 Web Access as a Trusted Site zone
- In your Web browser, choose Tools, Options.
- Click the Security tab.
- Click the Trusted Sites zone icon, then click the Sites button.
- Enter the P6 Web Access hostname or IP address into the Add this web site
to the zone field. Click Add.
If the message, "Sites added to this zone must use the https prefix" displays and you do not want to use server verification, click OK and then clear the "Require Server verification (https:) for all sites in this zone" checkbox.
- Click OK.
Once these settings are enabled, you will be prompted by P6 Web Access with the following message "An ActiveX control on this page might be unsafe to interact with other parts of the page. Do you want to allow this interaction?" Choose "Yes" to continue with the import feature that you selected from P6 Web Access.