[Zope] WebDav & MS Word problem - CANNOT SAVE

[Brian Lloyd]

> Any idea why saving on Zope (as WebFolder) does not work from 
> MS Word 2000?

Yep - because O2K expect locking support on the DAV
server.


> I've got Zope working fine as a WebDav server, when moving 
> files via NT
> Explorer. But trying to work straight from MS Word is read-only.
> 
> It seems the files are always opened read-only from Word when they are
> stored on (Zope) WebDav server. The file props don't say it's readonly
> though (regular NT fileprops).
> 
> Another MS quirk? "WebDav support", but not from Office? Or 
> with servers
> other than IIS? Let me be wrong...

There is a somewhat hacky but effective workaround in the
latest Zope 2.1.0 beta - it _emulates_ locking support 
enough to allow you work with documents in Zope from Office
2K (note that it does not provide DAV level 2 compliant locking
support though).


Brian Lloyd        brian@digicool.com
Software Engineer  540.371.6909              
Digital Creations  http://www.digicool.com