In our web application, we have direct link to word document in SharePoint site. So when user clicks on the hyperlink, I would like to open that in users local desktop word application. But I am unable to achieve it.
I have tried other work arounds like, when user clicks on the document in the sharepoint site, able to open in word desktop app. But it is still two clicks for user to reach the word desktop app.
Is there any way if we pass any parameters in the url saying open in local desktop app?
Thanks
Below is the code to open the desktop app directly in users machine. It will ask for confirmation though before opening the document in local.
ms-word:ofe|u|https://xxx.sharepoint.com/sites/xxx/xxx/xx.docx
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My website users have dashboard containing all the graphs, tables etc. created in excel and now they wish to publish it online.The intranet web server is in LAN connection with client PCs and generally website is accessed something like this:
http:\\10.222.12.52:8080\mywebsite\index.html
Now they are saving the excel sheet with AUTO PUBLISH OPTION ON as a web page (say dashboard.htm) and they wish to view updated dashboard using URL like
http:\\10.222.12.52:8080\mywebsite\dashboard.htm
The problem is while saving excel as web page, we need to enter entire UNC path to website folder i.e. \\10.222.12.52\c$\Apache24\htdocs\mywebsite\dashboard.htm and the same should not be disclosed as almost any user in team (not necessary just admin) would be handed in-charge to save new dashboards quarterly.
Is there anything that can be done as an alternative to UNC path? something like
\\10.222.12.52\mywebsite\dashboard.htm that would be accepted by excel's "save as" dialog box to save the excel as web page..
Why won't my document that i'm checking out from SharePoint not open after the checkout?
The status of the document after the check on SharePoint shows that I checked out the document but it won't open automatically.
What's even more annoying is that I don't know where the file has been checked out to.
Is there any way to find out where the document is being checked out to and how to get it to open automatically after the checkout?
I tried it both on Chrome and IE.
Check Out in short means "Reserve the file for me so that no one else makes any changes to it. It does not mean "Open the document"
SharePoint also shows the Checkout status and to whom it is checked out. I will be able to explain more if you tell me "what exactly you see" and why you think these details are missing.
In Sharepoint the checkout prevents other user to modify the document.
You can then open the document clicking on the title.
Your client application (Word for example) will open the document directly from the Sharepoint site.
When you will save the document after changes, it will be saved on the site.
You don't need to save a local copy because the document library works like as a shared folder.
You can even connect the document library on a drive letter if you want.
Try this from a command prompt:
net use k: http://YourSite/YourDocumentLibrary
This will create a network drive that point on the library.
(it works only with WebClient service running on client machine).
The best way to "checkout and edit" is to open the document using its sharepoint url.
For example, if you have a Word file to edit, you can copy its sharepoint url and go to MS Word and paste it in Open dialog box.
You will be asked for credentials and then it shows the checkout button on top of the document.
Later, you can checkin the edited doc using checkin option in file menu.
I have users who want to open Excel attachments from a list item but sharepoint insists that it opens using xlviewer but it never works. There is always an error that says try again in a few minutes.
I just want to allow them to download it or to open it directly with excel or the associated application.
Make sure you're the site collection admin. Go into the site (not the central admin) and then go to site settings then go to site collection features. In there you will find the setting for " Open Documents in Client Applications by Default " it will probably be deactivated. Active it and you're good to go. users will then open attachments in their windows assigned applications, not the sharepoint web apps.
Someone put a hyperlink to a document stored in SharePoint, in the All Links tab of a TFS task.
When I double click it, it opens up in a new browser tab in VS2010, then asks whether to download it ("Open/Save" dialog).
The result is that the file is downloaded and then opened as a local copy.
What I want to do is to open the document directly from the URL of the SharePoint site so editing will be done directly.
Is this possible?
Thanks!
I would asume that if you select "Open" that it would open off the sharepoint server. If this is not the case, then you would need to navigate to that document in Team Explorer or on the Sharepoint site and open it from there.
I need to create some website that allow user to edit Microsoft office document like Microsoft word. User can open document from this website after that user can save changed document to website like user open it from network location ("//Server-Name/path/document.docx")
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I try to use ftp server for containing documents. After that, I open document from web browser or windows explorer. Next, Microsoft Word opens my document but Word can't save it to original location on ftp server. Because Word always open document from temporary folder and it suggests me to save document to another location. However, if I directly open document from Word, Word will upload file to ftp server when I save document.
Do you have any idea for direct opening document by Word without using ActiveX?
Thanks,
Please take a look at
Google Documents List Data API