Sam: The reason why the files are being saved locally is because, when a user clicks on one of your "file download" links, the user's browser is downloading a COPY of the file to his or her computer. That is, they are not working on the remote file but on a local copy of the remote file.
Instead of your link URL being something like http://server/dir/file.ext try changing it to either file://Z:/dir/file.ext where "Z:" is a mapped drive to the share in which the remote files are located or file://Share/dir/file.ext where "Share" is the name of the share in which the remote files are located. These links will actually open the remote file (not a local copy of it) in MS Word, et al. Just note that any changes one person makes to the remote file gets shared by all other users. HTH -- Mosh Teitelbaum evoch, LLC Tel: (301) 942-5378 Fax: (301) 933-3651 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.evoch.com/ > -----Original Message----- > From: sam clement [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 2:54 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Saving files > > > This probably doesn't have a coldfusion specific answer but I thought i'd > ask anwyay. > > I'm trying to build an intranet application that will allow users to click > on links to open up files. This works fine using cfheader and cfcontent, > the file opens nicely in the appropriate application (MS Word or > whatever). > The problem is when the user tries to save the document it gets saved > locally and not on the server. This is really not that surprising... > however, since this is an intranet application and the users have network > access to the server, does anyone know of a way that will > automatically save > the document at its original src path when the save button is clicked - > instead of saving the file in a local temp directory? > > I guess this is really a browser issue... but anyone have any ideas? > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:237204 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
