How do you open it in a separate instance of word from the ie link? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fallin, Jonathan A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Slide Users Mailing List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 10:00 AM Subject: RE: Best Practice?
> Update! > > Turns out the registry setting mentioned in > http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=867838 DOES work! The problem I had when > I first tried it was the Word Document was opening inside IE. When that > happens, the doc is always read-only. However, if the Word Document is > opened in a separate instance of Word, then the Save button magically > appears. > > This works for Office XP when changing the registry for 10.0. Works for > Office 2003 when changing the registry for 11.0 > > Jonathan > > -----Original Message----- > From: Fallin, Jonathan A. > Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 11:35 AM > To: 'Slide Users Mailing List' > Subject: RE: Best Practice? > > I too have been using the IE specific behavior style tag with AnchorClick > attribute to get around the disabled Save button problem in Word and Excel. > For those not familiar with this issue here's the Knowledgebase article > explaining it. > > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308138 > > I still believe that there is a magical registry setting or HTTP header that > can be changed or added to get around this issue. Especially since I've > read elsewhere that the Save button is not disabled when opening Word or > Excel from a Sharepoint server (I believe Sharepoint uses WebDAV protocol - > but I'm not certain) > > I came across this article that looked somewhat promising, but after playing > around with the registry this morning, I still am unable to resolve the > issue. > > http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=867838 > > Look forward to seeing the *.LNK work around. > > Jonathan > > -----Original Message----- > From: Wiley Jacobs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 12:23 AM > To: Slide Users Mailing List > Subject: Re: Best Practice? > > Grant, this sounds like an interesting solutions, do you need to make a > network folder first or anything? Does it take any preconfiguation or client > (other then default) on the windows side? If not, this looks like it may be > a possible solution for windows based implementations. If you could donate > the colde, that would be great. I have seen this possible HTML code for > opening up folders from a web page: > > <body> > <STYLE> > A {behavior: url(#default#AnchorClick);} </STYLE> > > <A HREF = "http://localhost:8080/storage/files/Survey.doc"; > FOLDER = "http://localhost:8080/storage/files/"; > TARGET = "_blank" > > > Open in Web Folder View > </A> > > </body> > > The only issue here is that it doesn't open up the file directly, just the > folder that's it's in. Your solution seems more streamline. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Grant Gongaware" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Slide Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 7:38 PM > Subject: Re: Best Practice? > > > > 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.do > c</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! > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
