On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 04:06:04PM -0500, Anna Bikkina wrote: > I am having a strange problem trying to convert a xml document to excel.The > excel is being generated perfectly, and when the alert saying(Do you want to > open,save or cancel this document.) comes up and I try to open the excel the > same pipeline which executed this excel is being executed again. When I click > on save and save it to my local harddrive the pipeline is not executed twice. > > Did anyone face a similar problem.
Are you using IE 5.5 as your browser? It has a bug that causes this same problem when loading PDF documents. Maybe it is a general problem for any type of file handled externally? The symptoms are that IE downloads the file once for itself and then a second time to give it to Acrobat. Perhaps you hit the same bug with Excel documents? It may not fit your use-case, but I solved it by separating the file generation from the file download by having a generate button that triggers the creation and saving of the PDF to a file on the server, and a separate button to download the file. However, you have to watch out for race conditions if more than one instance of the pipeline can write to the same file at the same time. --Tim Larson --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
