Wiley,
I have an elaborate WebFolder hack I could contribute to Slide (if there's a place for it) that involves creating Shortcut file (*.LNK) for any given destination. Using a shortcut on MS Office documents opens them directly and the normal save button overwrites directly back to the server.
An example link might be:
<a href="/linkMakingServlet/MyLink.lnk?dest=/slide/work/Report1.doc">Report1.doc</a>
The user would be asked if they wanted to save or open "MyLink.lnk". If they save, they'll get a nice little icon on the desktop for later use, or if they open, MS Word will popup and begin its GET/LOCK/PROPFIND trickery.
I wrote a pure Java class (based on some hex editing, voodoo, and an old Win95 C project)... But I have long hoped that there was a better solution. If anyone else out there has a better way, PLEASE SHARE! Otherwise, I'll contribute mine as it might be the only way to have a browser initiated direct edit in Windows with no plug-ins.
-Grant
Wiley Jacobs wrote:
I would like to have my web clients be able to check out a files from a web interface, then download the file, work on it and check it back in. I ideally I would like the user to be able to click on a link and the doc just opens up and when changes are made the user can click save and it saves to the webdav area on the folder.
In working with this idea it only looks like there are two solutions:
1) The user has to open the file in a webdav client (ex web folders in ie)
2) The user is prompted to save the file locally and then they have to upload it back into the system.
Is there an alternate best practice that can streamline this process?
Thanks!
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