Can not open/save directly in webdav

[dtnsolutions]

Hi,
I'm using Alfresco 1.2 in Linux. Everything is working perfectly except I can not open or save file directly in webdav using MS Word or Open office.
Using web folder in windows XP, I can create, copy, delete file, but I can not double click on .odt file to open it, I have to copy the file to some directory on my drive and open it.
Do you have any idea?
Thanks

[gavinc]

Yes, by default the edit link is set to "http" meaning that you will get a download (save as dialog) when you click on the link.

If you want to use webdav for your editing you can change the edit link type setting in the config to be "webdav".

Add the following config to your web-client-config-custom.xml file (found in <alfresco>/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension, you may also have to remove the .sample suffix):

<config>
   <client>
      <edit-link-type>webdav</edit-link-type>
   </client>
</config>‍‍‍‍‍

When you restart the server and go to an edit link you should see the URL should now be pointing to the webdav server. In IE there is support to open Office documents directly into the relevant app, they should open in edit mode allowing you to save directly back to the repository.

In Firefox you get the webdav URL but it's likely that the documents will open in the correct application but in read-only mode.

Hope this helps.

[dtnsolutions]

Sorry if I didn't explain clearly. What I meant is when I click on document in Windows Explorer (Using Web Folder feature of Windows XP), nothing happens, I expect Open Office or MS Word will open the file.
What you explained is about Web client, didn't you?

[kevinr]

Yes that is how to configure the web-client to open a doc using WebDav. You say nothing happens at all when you click in a web-folder, have you tried double clicking or dragging the doc into the appropriate app to see if that works…?

Thanks,

Kevin

[dtnsolutions]

When I double click on some .doc or .odt file in a space name Projects for example using Web Folder, nothing happen at all.
When I right click on that file, I expect to see an Open menu item in context sensitive menu but there's no such Open menu item (this is different from what I experienced with other Webdav system, such as Jakarta Slide)
When I drag that file to Writer (Open Office),  the mouse pointer change to an icon meaning the drag and drop is not supported.

I don't know if others face the same problem.

Thank you,
Tien

[gary_spencer]

Hi,

If you have MS Office installed then it seems to install a handler so it can open documents via WebDAV or via Network Places but other apps don't do anything.

With OpenOffice you can open files using a WebDAV URL, or browse to a WebDAV area. You need to enable the OpenOffice load/save dialog by going to Tools->Options, then open the OpenOffice.org item and select General, then check the 'Use OpenOffice.org dialogs' checkbox.

You should then be able to enter WebDAV URLs into the load/save dialog.

Cheers

Gary

[dtnsolutions]

Thank you Gary,
That's exactly the problem. After switch to use Open Office dialogs, I can open and save directly from Writer.
I still like the way Webfolder connect to Webdav so I did some search and found NetDrive from Novell. NetDrive allows me to map Webdav or FTP as a win network drive. It's working perfectly, now I can double click on the file and open with any application like I'm working with files on local drive.
In case someone wants to use NetDrive, the link to download is: http://www.loyola.edu/5555/netdrive/applications/netdrive.exe (The link at Novell doesn't work)

Regards,
Tien