topic Firefox and document editing in Alfresco Archive

Firefox and document editing

dgenard — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:33:32 GMT

Hello, some of our users are confused when editing documents through web UI in FireFox.They can easily edit a document by clicking on the pencil (CIFS editing was activated). So far so good…But they often want to edit a document by simply clicking on its name.Firefox then download a copy of the docu

Re: Firefox and document editing

bart — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:08:33 GMT

Hello Denis,

I'm having the same issue among my users. I'm curious for the answer from Alfresco.

See you

Bart

Re: Firefox and document editing

dgenard — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:19:01 GMT

No answer from Alfresco or anybody else…
Our only option is to ask our users to avoid using Firefox :?

Re: Firefox and document editing

paulhh — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 09:28:29 GMT

Hi

It is something we're thinking about! It's the usual challenge of people not wanting client-side components/controls and still ease of use. One simple option we'll do is at least give a config option so that the main view/download link can also be webdav or CIFS. That way, it's all happening remotely.

Otherwise, there should be ways of extending the firefox plugin to look for the download links and change intercept the click to do something else (e.g. simply popping up a dialogbox warning the user that it's being opened locally).

Cheers
Paul