Thank you for the information. I guess thats right. I tried the same in netscape and it worked fine.
Anna. On Friday 12 March 2004 10:17 pm, Tim Larson wrote: > 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
