Problem opening wpd files out of sharepoint.

[Brett Bishop]

Ok,
Here is my problem and yes I know my first problem is using word(not
so)perfect but that's what we have to use here so I'm stuck with it.

I have sharepoint service running on a windows server 2003 standard box. I
have uploaded wordperfect (*.wpd) documents to it. In internet explorer 6
fully patched I go to where the document is and I click it. I have windows
setup not to prompt me for wpd doc's so it SHOULD open up wordperfect with
the file I clicked on. If I open up task manager I can see wpwin11.exe
open and then close right away. If I then go into WP and click file and
look at the recently opened document the document is there and I can click
on it, granted it's a cached copy in the ie temp folder which is not what I
want at all but fact is WP recorded itself opening the file. As I'm sure
you already know there is a space in the url path of
http://servername/Shared Documents/filename.wpd. This whole process works
wonderfully if there are no spaces anywhere but who these days doesn't use
spaces in file names. I have a ton of data that needs to be brought over to
sharepoint and a lot of it contains spaces. I have the same problem if I
copy the url and paste it in the run menu. The only way I have gotten it to
work is using

"drive:\full path\wpwin11.exe" "http://full path/document.wpd"

with the quotes in place as you see them. The interesting thing is if I go
into WP and click open and in the file box type http://full
path/document.wpd it opens the document from the webserver and allows me to
edit it and save it right up to the web server just like I want to.

Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks in advance and also prob. after you
give me the answer I will say thanks!

Brett Bishop
MCSE, MCP+I

 

[Mike Walsh]

Ideas. (coming from WSS)

1. You don't have to use the 'Shared Documents' document library, you can
create a new one where the name doesn't contain spaces.

2. There is probably a routine somewhere (script?) that will copy the
contents of a directory and remove all spaces from the file names (for
instance replace each space with ZZZ should be enough).

When you are using the files in WSS you will usually be using a description
of the file rather than the file name in your listings so these 'ZZZ's won't
be a problem.

Mike Walsh, Helsinki, Finland
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