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Ideas an questions about CIFS access

miggy4340 — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:15:23 GMT

Hello,I just had the following idea when trying desktop action.Is it possible to have a virtual desktop action that will trigger when content is added to a space.The use case is to return a url that point to a page to edit the properties of the file of folder just added, or any action when user inte

Re: Ideas an questions about CIFS access

ronnyt — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 09:56:22 GMT

Bertrand,

wouldn't it be better if you have a proper "right button click" menu in the CIFS interface from which the user can select actions (e.g. see properties) just as in windows. Would require less interactions of the user to perform his tasks.

Regards,
Ronny Timmermans.

Re: Ideas an questions about CIFS access

paulhh — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:36:04 GMT

The thing you have to remember with the CIFS-based desktop actions is that they are effectively virtual Windows executables - so if you can imagine doing something with an executable on a newtwork drive, then you can image doing the same with desktop actions (potentailly!).

There is no client install required for desktop actions, but you would need this to get right-click integration in Windows.

You can get creative with the JavaScript/URL desktop actions, since you could launch custom Presentation Template views (no login needed if you pick up the user ticket in the script).

We didn't get time to do category-based navigation through CIFS - we will one day.

Re: Ideas an questions about CIFS access

miggy4340 — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:19:00 GMT

Hello,

Thank you for the aswers so far.

Do you have any idea on the specific domain of actions (desktop actions) automatically fired when a document is added with CIFS.

Regards

Bertrand

Re: Ideas an questions about CIFS access

jhayghost — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:51:32 GMT

Can you give tutorial how to work w/ Virtual Custom Desktop executables

thanks
Jhayghost