WebDAV url in document file name?

[kjmsandstrom]

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 files, all containing internal and external links. I have tried to open these files through WebDAV and it works perfectly for html files (links and all). However, it does not work with hlp and word files. The hlp files only gives a dialog box with Save as and Cancel buttons. The word files opens with a local temp directory link in stead of a WevDAV URL. I can not find the right configuration to correct this.

I would also like to avoid going to the details page for the WebDAV link. I would like to know if it is possible to create an URL to documents through WebDAV directly from the document filenames instead of going to the View in WebDAV link in the document details.

I have tried to use the Edit icon to produce the WebDAV link but I have not been able to get this to work properly.

Any suggestions are much appreciated.

We use Alfresco community 2.1 on a Linux system and Firefox 2 on WinXP as clients.

Regards
Mattias

[alcibiade]

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.

[kjmsandstrom]

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