Technical Instructions

This is a how-to guide to configure your user settings in Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 3 to use the SOTKAnet Statistics and Indicator Bank. SOTKAnet also works with other web browsers, for example with older IE and Firefox versions.

When pages refresh and update in SOTKAnet, there may occur problems in all browser environments. Sometimes you will need to click on your browser’s refresh button or function key F5 to get pages in SOTKAnet to display properly.

Refresh problems can occur especially when users navigate the site by clicking the Back and Forward buttons on the browser toolbar. It is therefore recommended that you use the link trail under the menu bar. This navigational trail will always show your current location in relation to the front page. You can also click on the SOTKAnet logo to go straight to the front page.

Certain SOTKAnet features require that your browser has particular settings. You should, for example, enable the following settings:

• Enable JavaScript
• Print background colours and images (to be able to print tables and graphics)
• Allow cookies (to be able to save searches)
• Enable file download (to be able to export results to Excel or CSV format)

Please note that SOTKAnet uses the decimal comma (as in 1,5) rather than the decimal point (1.5) as the standard decimal symbol.