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
>
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