Saving Office documents over an http connection

[José Silva]

Anybody knows what should be developed to save a document into the Web
server using an http connection?

In fact I have a repository and I want to do something very similar to what
SharePoint 2003 does when we are saving a document in the Word or Excel. The
"Save as" dialog box calls something (A Web service?) that returns an html
page that is displayed inside the save as dialog box and finally the
document is stored with the properties filled on the "save as" dialog box
in our repository.

Where can I get information about this integration?

Many thanks in advance
José SIlva

 

[jjintx]

Excel 2003 and Word 2003 both have this integrated capability as long as you
have FrontPage Server Extensions active on your web server. You need to
grant write access to the target directories to the users who will be using
the site. Then in the "Save as" dialog box, type the URL (
http://mywebserver/mydirectory/mydoc.xls)
where you want to save the file.

 

[José Silva]

Yes, that saves the Excel file on the Web-Server, but my question is how the
Web-Server could respond to the save request with an html page that is
displayed on the "Save As" dialog box. This html page could ask for more
information about the file being saved add that information could then be
saved along with the file.

Many thanks