Blank dashboard after logging in JIRA in IE8

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Symptoms

When you log into JIRA using IE8, the dashboard is blank and the system is unusable.

The following appears in the webpage error details:

======== Start error log ==========
 
Webpage error details
 
User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Timestamp: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 09:53:17 UTC
 
 
Message: 'window.Raphael.svg' is null or not an object
Line: 20
Char: 1
Code: 0
URI: https://jira/s/en_USjgiham-418945332/812/95/1/_/download/superbatch/js/batch.js
 
 
Message: 'JIRA.FormDialog' is null or not an object
Line: 1
Char: 13
Code: 0
URI: https://jira/s/en_USjgiham-418945332/812/95/0fe07bcec0e611fd1ab0042e98d11ba6/_/download/contextbatch/js/atl.general/batch.js
 
 
Message: 'JIRA' is null or not an object
Line: 1
Char: 1
Code: 0
URI: https://jira/s/en_USjgiham-418945332/812/95/1.0/_/download/batch/jira.webresources:group-pickers/jira.webresources:group-pickers.js
 
 
Message: 'JIRA' is null or not an object
Line: 1
Char: 14
Code: 0
URI: https://jira/s/en_USjgiham-418945332/812/95/1.0/_/download/batch/jira.webresources:user-pickers/jira.webresources:user-pickers.js
 
 
Message: 'AJS.MultiSelect' is null or not an object
Line: 35
Char: 1
Code: 0
URI: https://jira/s/en_USjgiham-418945332/812/95/1.0/_/download/batch/jira.webresources:jira-fields/jira.webresources:jira-fields.js
 
 
Message: Object doesn't support this property or method
Line: 1
Char: 1
Code: 0
URI: https://jira/s/en_USjgiham-418945332/812/95/1.0.54/_/download/batch/com.atlassian.jira.jira-quick-edit-plugin:quick-form/com.atlassian.jira.jira-quick-edit-plugin:quick-form.js
 
 
Message: 'JIRA.Forms' is null or not an object
Line: 1
Char: 1
Code: 0
URI: https://jira/s/en_USjgiham-418945332/812/95/1.0.54/_/download/batch/com.atlassian.jira.jira-quick-edit-plugin:quick-create-issue/com.atlassian.jira.jira-quick-edit-plugin:quick-create-issue.js
 
 
Message: 'jira.app' is null or not an object
Line: 85
Char: 5
Code: 0
URI: https://jira/s/en_USjgiham-418945332/812/95/1.1.1/_/download/batch/com.atlassian.administration.atlassian-admin-quicksearch-jira:admin-quicksearch-webresources/com.atlassian.administration.atlassian-admin-quicksearch-jira:admin-quicksearch-webresources.js
 
 
======== End error log =========

Cause

  1. JIRA is not listed as a trusted website in IE's list.
  2. Binary and script behaviors is not Enabled.

Resolution

  1. Add JIRA to IE's trusted websites list.
  2. Browse through Internet Options -> Security -> Custom Level -> ActiveX controls and plug-ins -> Binary and script and enabled this option.
Last modified on Mar 30, 2016

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