Patrick McGrath, IST–CCS
This spring, we provided some computer hardware and browser-related tech tips for PeopleSoft's HRMS system (see Tech tips for PeopleSoft's HRMS in the Spring 2002 BC&C). Now that HRMS is live, we would like to provide more details on these tips and take this opportunity to offer additional information.
We first suggested that Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) 5 and 5.5 would be supported, as well as IE 6, for HRMS. Further testing has revealed that Explorer 5.0x does not work well with PeopleSoft HRMS when SSL (Secure Socket Layer, a security feature) is used to display secured and nonsecured fields and pages. We now recommend that you upgrade to at least IE 5.5 with Service Pack 1 for Windows-based systems.
Here is one way to download IE Service Pack. In your IE browser, click on Help, then follow this path:
You may also consider installing IE 6 instead of upgrading your 5.5 release.
To download IE 6, after you click on Help, follow this path:
You may need help from your workstation administrator if you do not have the privileges to install software.
Take advantage of the browser's caching ability to reduce unnecessary checking and downloading of the same Internet objects within the online transaction session. The Internet objects that most likely remain unchanged during an online session are:
The following web browser settings are PeopleSoft's recommended configurations. These configurations are usually the default settings of the respective browsers. Please verify to ensure correctness.
Microsoft Internet Explorer
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Netscape browser
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Only HTTP 1.1 compliant web browsers can request compressed files. Web browsers that are not HTTP 1.1 compliant request and receive files uncompressed, therefore the web server will not be able to send any compressed HTML files to the browser (even if the configuration.properties has the Compress Response switch turned on). Most browsers since 1998-99 have been equipped to support the HTTP 1.1 standard known as "content-encoding". Essentially, the browser indicates to the server that it can accept "content encoding" and if the server is capable it will then compress the data and transmit it. The browser decompresses it and then renders the page. This is an important performance feature for the web browsers that are using slower bandwidth connections, such as a dialup connection or a 56K line.
Which browsers are HTTP 1.1 compliant?
To verify if Internet Explorer is configured to use the HTTP 1.1 protocol:
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Finally, we wish to remind you that you must have your Calnet ID (https://calnet.berkeley.edu/) established in order to use HRMS.
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Berkeley Computing & Communications,
Volume 12, Number 4 (Fall 2002)
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