Saving files

[Marco L Plascencia]

Hi to all...

Some users asked me to upload some excel files to a certain location in our
intranet and I create a HTML index to access them. I have placed those
files in a specific folder and give them the necessary permissions
(security).

But when they try to save the file at the same location (webserver) they
asked to save the file in a different location (save as... dialog box).

What can I do for enabling SAVE option in the IE's FILE menu option...
Do I have to enable something? More permissions?

I appreciate any help,
Marco.

 

[Jim Buyens]

-----Original Message-----

Hi to all...
Howdy.

Some users asked me to upload some excel files to a
certain location in our intranet and I create a HTML
index to access them. I have placed those files in a
specific folder and give them the necessary permissions
(security).

But when they try to save the file at the same location
(webserver) they asked to save the file in a different
location (save as... dialog box).

What can I do for enabling SAVE option in the IE's FILE
menu option...
Do I have to enable something? More permissions?

I appreciate any help,
Marco.

Right. If you simply hyperlink to an .xls file, the
browser will download the file to a temporary location,
then start Excel and tell it to open the temorary copy.
So, the default location is going ot be some temp folder
somewhere.

This works much better if you just have the users open the
file in Excel:
File, Open, http://www.yoursever/com/important.xls

Sharepoint Team Sites also do a better job of this.

You *might* have luck creating a shortcut that points to
Excel and your URL, copying the shortcut file into your
Web site, and then hyperlinking linking to the shortcut
file. But this sort of thing seems risky from a security
point of view, and I suspect there may be security issues.
There could also be some unpleasantness if not all the
copies of Excel are in the same place.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
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