Re: using a browser to edit documents

[J�rgen Hoffmann]

Hi,

A friend of mine told me that he saw this sort of thing working, where 
he did not use a link object with the http protocol, but with the file 
protocol. So <a 
href="file://webdav.somedomain.com/filepath/file.doc">document</a> 
worked for him. This has not been tested by me though.

if it works, please give a shout.

kind regards

J�rgen Hoffmann

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Thanks.

I understand why it's not working, I was just hoping against all hopes
that their might be some way into 'tricking' IE and/or Windows into
passing an URL to the Office product instead of saving the file locally
and then passing the local file name.  There are so many situations
when this kind of behavior would be desirable.
Eric

Mike Oliver schrieb:
 

When you open it with IE you are NOT using WebDAV, you
are just doing an 
HTTP get of the file, no different really than from any
other HTTP 
server.  To use WebDAV you need to open it from a Web
Folder 
(Technically you could do it from the File->Open in
Word....but I digress).

To do that you go to your "Network Places", then "Add New
Network Place" 
and put in the URL you were using to the Slide folder
where your 
document is.

After you authenticate you will be able to use Microsoft
Office products 
to open then with WebDAV and save your changes back.  The
document will 
be locked while you have it open and will be unlocked
when you close it.

Ollie

E.A.Holmes wrote:

   

Hi,

Excuse me if this question isn't 100% slide related, but
     

perhaps someone
   

can give me some help.

I'm trying to use slide and webdav to access documents
     

through a browser
   

(specifically Internet Explorer 5 +, although I haven't
     

had much luck
   

using Konqueror either).  The problem is, is that when I
     

click on a link
   

to retrieve an MS Office document, the correct
     

application is opened but
   

the MS Office application is editing a temporary file
     

(e.g.
   

/tmp/MyDoc.doc) instead of a webdav url
(https://slide.mydomain.org/myDocs/MyDoc.doc).  That
     

means that you can
   

view and edit the document, but when you save it it is
     

simply saved in
   

the local file system instead of being sent back to the
     

server.
   

Ideally I would like to click on the link, edit the
     

document in the
   

proper application and then save it directly back to the
     

server.
   

Is there any way to get this to work?  Perhaps by
     

sending some kind of
   

special information in the header?  Or is there some way
     

to configure
   

Windoze to handle things differently?

Thanks for any help anyone can give me,

Eric

     

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