[Zope] Opening MSWord Document via WebDAV from <a href="..."/>

Fri, 19 Apr 2002 14:20:38 +0200

Hi Thomas!

Just some hints!
I use the following DTML Method named "webfolder" in the Zope root:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE><!--#var title_or_id--></TITLE>
<STYLE>
.httpFolder {behavior: url(#default#httpFolder);}
</STYLE>
<SCRIPT>
function init(){
	oDAV.navigateFrame("<!--#var absolute_url-->","_self");
}
</SCRIPT>
<BODY ONLOAD="init()">
<DIV ID = "oDAV" CLASS = "httpFolder" >
</BODY>
</HTML>

If implemented you can simply open a folder as webdav-folder in IE by 
linking to the URL and appending the string "webfolder" (example: 
http://zope-host:8080/A/B/webfolder opens folder B as webdav-folder in IE).

I still haven't found the mystical link to open a document directly via 
webdav. I use Win- and Office-XP as Clients. Does XP really map webdav to 
UNC names?

Juergen

--On Freitag, 19. April 2002 14:02 +0200 Thomas Guettler 
<zopestoller@thomas-guettler.de> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Is there a way to open a MSWord document
> via webdav from a link?
>
> It is unfortunately too difficult for most people
> to download the document from zope to a local directory,
> change it, and upload it again.
>
> Since Zope supports WebDAV it should be possible
> to open it via webdav by following a link (<a href="magic"/>)
>
> But what does "magic" need to look like?
>
> If I use magic=="http://zope-host:8080/foo.doc"
>
> "WebFolder" don't show up at drive letters. At least I didn't
> get it working. Since I need it for an intranet application it
> would be possible "mount" the webdav from zope to e.g. "z:" on all
> clients. Then a link to file:///Z|... should work. I heard
> that only Windows-XP is able to map webdav to UNC-Names
>