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John
I need to find the best way to edit Word documents over the internet.
Multiple users would like to view and add to a common file on the server.
We are looking for a thin client solution -- code on the server feeding a
web browser and Word on the client. It is very likely that this has been
approached hundreds of times before and that there is a preferred solution.
I haven't been able to find that solution in newsgroups or on the net.
How is this usually approached? Are there any code examples lying about on
the internet? Any good references to solutions to the problem?
The most straightforward approach would seem to be sending the binary or
mime encoded doc file contents to the browser and then creating a temporary
file using script (e.g. vbscript), opening it with Word automation, saving
it after the edits, then reopening it with script to read the contents and
send them back to the server. If this is not too clumsy an approach what
wouild be the best means for sending the file back and forth over the net?
Appreciatively,
John
Multiple users would like to view and add to a common file on the server.
We are looking for a thin client solution -- code on the server feeding a
web browser and Word on the client. It is very likely that this has been
approached hundreds of times before and that there is a preferred solution.
I haven't been able to find that solution in newsgroups or on the net.
How is this usually approached? Are there any code examples lying about on
the internet? Any good references to solutions to the problem?
The most straightforward approach would seem to be sending the binary or
mime encoded doc file contents to the browser and then creating a temporary
file using script (e.g. vbscript), opening it with Word automation, saving
it after the edits, then reopening it with script to read the contents and
send them back to the server. If this is not too clumsy an approach what
wouild be the best means for sending the file back and forth over the net?
Appreciatively,
John