I regularly have to use Sharepoint based on a pretty significant global deal that was made far down in the enterprise that is my employer…
It sucks.
We use our sharepoint install for global communications, file sharing and client work sites. Today I discovered that I am unable to upload a file period from the Mac. The menu is simply not there and I tested this in Firefox, Safari and IE. I also discovered recently while still on Windows that Firefox gets a different URL structure than IE which causes some nice breaks when you try to share the location of files with your co-workers. Sharepoint is a 100% Windows extremist application that even with Windows XP and IE works only some of the time. I’m sure part of the pain is the implementation we have, but man is it poor.
At a prior job, we used Notes, which was painful as well, but it actually worked.
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Sharepoint may be the worst product I’ve ever had to deal with. To say I feel your pain would be an understatement.
Thanks man – it’s brutal!
Hey there,
Caught your post and just wanted to offer my assistance. I have to admit that I’ve only really used SharePoint with Internet Explorer (I’m kinda biased being a Microsoft employee ) however some other people internally have had some success with customers who dont, specifically Mac and Firefox and Windows XP and Firefox.
Firefox isn’t mentioned but here is our browser support matrix:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA011719641033.aspx
Got a couple of questions for you:
1. What “menu” is not there when you try to upload?
2. Can you give me an example of the different URLs?
3. What issues have you experiences with Windows XP/IE and SharePoint?
3. Has the site been customised?
Anyway, I’ll understand if you dont have the time or interest to answer these questions, wont take it personally, just trying to help!
Like you I hope this story only gets better in the future.
Daniel
How this for a URL comparison… from IE to Firefox, all windows: I don’t think you’ll have to guess that the .aspx is Windows and the URLs are completely different. I got these by browsing to the same place. The non-standard IE / Windows only stuff is BS. If you use a site like this, you can’t possibly control all the variables like what client’s are using when they browse.
Works –
https://my.internalsite.com/files1/PISC05014035/Presentations%20&%
20Meetings/Client%20Presentations%20%20&%20Meetings%20-%20Drafts/
Creative%20Meetings%20&%20Reviews/COMPANY%20Pres%20051115/
Does not –
https://my.internalsite.com/KC/Project/Project_filesWorksheet.aspx?
ProjectGuid=5aa5a250-057c-43b2-9470-652cf38d055e&RelativeUNCPath=%
5cPresentations+%26+Meetings&RootUNCPath=%5c%5cKODG383241%5cIKCFiles1%
5cPISC05014035&PageName=Project_filesWorksheet.aspx
Hi Jonathan,
I’m a little confused here, so stay with me.
Exactly what link in SharePoint are you clicking on? The reason I ask is that while the first link could be one generated by SharePoint, I dont think the second one is. The reason I think that is that is that SharePoint does not include a file called “Project_fileWorksheet.aspx”, it’s not a sharepoint file, and so therefore I’m not sure it would be generating such a URL. Can you provide a little more detail on what it is you were doing with SharePoint?
And when you say “browsing the same place” do you mean when you click a region with one browser you get one results, then with another browser, same region, you get a different result?
Could it be that this is a customisation of some sort?
Daniel