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

[Thomas Guettler]

Problem: Opening a Office document with WebDAV from a
browser. (Download, edit, upload is too elaborate)

The solutions I consider:

1. Using Internet Explorer:

<STYLE>
   A {behavior: url(#default#AnchorClick);}
  </STYLE>
  <A href = "http://localhost:9080/a/documents/4
    folder = "http://localhost:9080/a/documents/4"
    target = "_top"> Open in Web Folder View
  </A>
(Thanks to Juergen Plasser)

You can't open the document directly, but you can open the
folder and then open the document with wedav.

Drawback: Only works with IE. Users of other browsers or operating
systems need to download, edit, upload.

2. Install a small http or xml-rpc server on each client. All clients

need to have the same port number. Then you could linkt
to: http://localhost:9999/?document. The server at localhosts opens
the document using COM.

Benefit: This works with any browser.
Drawback: You need to install the server at each client.


3. Use Samba on Unix as a wrapper.
Drawback: You need a unix server
Benefit: Even Offices without webdav support can access
to documents.
(The link would be <a href="file:///Z:/...")


4. Use WebDrive or TeamDrive (about 40$ per client)



I think I will use solution 1. What do you think?