Dan Sashko wrote:

~~~sorry for double post if you get it twice... I think I sent it first from the wrong email address

is there a way in zope to reference a document on a server without having it to be in the zope database???

if I want to display say a microsoft document, with content type of application/msword so that the Internet explorer displays it as formated word document and so that it can be saved back to server???

or is there other ways of accomplishing the same thing?

thank you for any help

Dan S.

You can view access files in a local file system through Zope using the LocalFS product. You should also be able to access shares mounted from a remote server through this as well (nfs, smb, etc). However this will not let you save the document back once it is opened. For this you could perhaps use WebDAV ("Web Folders" in MS-speak), although I am unsure whether LocalFS supports this. My guess would be that it does. You will need IE5/Office 2000 for the WebDAV support on the client side, Zope already has the server-side support built in. Another perhaps better option would be to simply share the files via smb and link to them from the Zope pages via a "file://" link that opens them directly off the file server rather than through Zope. This would prevent you from having the jerry-rig Zope into being a file server. -- | Casey Duncan | Kaivo, Inc. | cduncan@kaivo.com `------------------>