Showing posts with label IE11. Show all posts
Showing posts with label IE11. Show all posts

Friday 23 June 2017

IE11 cannot save meta data when inside an iFrame

Problem:  I have two SharePoint sites, I am iFraming once site collection within a PageViewer control on the other SharePoint site.  I have disabled the iFrame security restrictions.  When I try edit the list item field columns, the data will not save in IE11.  Using IE 11 on the Order pages (without the iFraming) works.
The error manifests in that the Title is validating as if the title is blank when it's already filled in and most of the metadata is not saved/persisted on save.  MMS term data is the only data saved.

Initial Hypothesis:  As Chrome and lower level browsers work, the issue has to be with the implementation of IE.  I can see console errors in the IE developer toolbar "attachEvent" withi the SharePoint init.debug.js file is throwing the console JavaScript error. It appears that the issue only occurs in IE 11 when editing or adding list field data when the SharePoint site is within an iFrame.   So not common scenario but if you are using iFrames, it will affect a large portion of my user base.

Resolution:  Edit the master page in the Orders site collection to ensure the init.js uses the alternate path so the code shall save.


Posts on the iFraming issue Series:
IE11 not saving field data iframe Issue (This post)
Term Store/MMS musing when using iFrames (WebTaggingDialog)
Displaying SharePoint Site Pages in iFrames