Launch MS Office documents in Office - not in the browser

[simonWMC2]

Hi Guys...

I have a web page that lalinks to lots of word, excel, powerpoint and access files. Using a normal a href link makes the document open in the browser window.

I tried using a javascript acticex to force the document to open in the office application, but due to security on our intranet it doesn't work.

I would like to try using .asp, but my knowledge of asp is pretty poor. Does anyone know how I can do this ?

Thank you

S

 

[ggriffit]

Simon,
I've come across this before, once any Content is shipped to the browser, whether that be HTML or a DOC then it is up to the local machine settings which application, IE/Office/Notepad etc is used to open the content.

The ActiveX error is a common one and you will need to change the security settings, see

http://www.greggriffiths.org/webdev/both/excel/

for more information on doing this.

There is a long recent thread you started discussing this at

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1557030&page=1.

Greg Griffiths
Livelink Certified Developer & ECM Global Star Champion 2005 & 2006

http://www.greggriffiths.org/livelink/