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WebDAV url in document file name?

kjmsandstrom — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:11:32 GMT

Hi,I have not been working with Alfresco for to long but I have already run into a few issues I can't resolve without your help. I have a few different types of old documentations that I want to add to our new Alfresco intranet. The documentations are windows help files (.hlp), word files or html fi

Re: WebDAV url in document file name?

alcibiade — Thu, 15 May 2008 09:55:01 GMT

I had a similar problem. I want to provide links to word-editable documents stored on alfresco.
But when I opened them from IE on http://a.b.c.d:8888/alfresco/webdav/myfile.doc, the documents were read-only in word.

I found a solution from MS. There is a registry key on the client computer that must be added:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\10.0\Common\Internet\OpenDocumentsReadWriteWhileBrowsing = 1

This will allow office to open documents in read/write mode over an http link.

I guess there might be some other issues if you open links with FF since it will save a local version anyway, but it works fine with IE.

Re: WebDAV url in document file name?

kjmsandstrom — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:30:57 GMT

Thank you for your reply. That solved one of my problems. However, I do have to switch to IE.

I have also found that if I change the href="#{r.url}" to href="#{r.webdavUrl}" in browse.jsp the document file name has a Webdav link. So that problem is also solved.

To avoid getting the Save as dialog from hlp-files I hade to use the Mime-edit addon for FF and add winhlp32.exe as an application. In IE this was not a problem.

Cheers,
Mattias