EUCLID notes
These notes are only relevant to University of Edinburgh staff that have to use the Euclid system.
Printing
Printing student timetables from Firefox worked disastrously badly for me. Google Chrome worked fine, so I now use that.
The “your browser is looping” problem
After getting logged out of EUCLID automatically I usually can’t get back in. The browser loops between EUCLID and the EASE authentication page, rapidly leading to an error message.
Google Chrome: launch a new incognito window, and load EUCLID from there. (The procedure for Firefox below doesn’t work in Chrome.)
For Firefox, bookmark these links:
ZAP Cookies, EUCLID.
Right-click and select “bookmark this link”, or drag to the bookmarks toolbar.
I’ve organized my bookmarks to put them at the top of my bookmarks menu.
Whenever you get the looping problem:
- Go to a tab/window with a previously-opened EUCLID page from www.star.euclid.ed.ac.uk.
- Select the “ZAP Cookies” bookmark.
- Select the EUCLID bookmark. (Or go back in via MyEd).
Any browser windows showing old EUCLID sessions won’t work. Although always try to leave one open so that you can do steps 1 and 2. If you don’t have an old session open, you will have to manually zap the relevant cookies through your browser settings and possibly restart your browser. Ugh.
Note: the EUCLID help pages list the looping problem as known. It seems to be a problem associated with the cosign login software they are using, although I don’t know where the blame lies.
Source for zap cookies bookmarklet.