Livelink Word Integration and Serial Letters

[ssegebre]

Hi,

we are using Livelin 9.6 since a while and struggling with the Office integration:
Users often use serial letters, working with Word 03 and Excel 03. If you have stored the documents both in LL, the Word Serial Letter and an Excel Sheet as data source, you can't access the Excel file within Word directly in LL, you have to download the Excel file e.g. to the local desktop first.
Even WebDAV doesn't work (I think, because Word does use any DDE or somethin else to access the excel file for use as datasource in serial letters).

Is there any way to integrate these functionality in LL?

Thanks

 

[oledent]

Indeed, it seems MS-Office app doesn't allow to register relative patch between Document (which is supported when Documents are opened through ActiveX in iE), nor to register Internet location (webdav or http url).

You can deceive the enemy by using a webdav client app, such as Web-drive, and mapping the root of the tree in Livelink to a drive letter. Then you can open your documents via Web-drive. You wil have just to edit the absolute links to correspond to the new drive letter.

Not very academic, but it may work,

Olivier

 

[ssegebre]

Hi and thanks a lot!

First tests are successful, I will test it furthermore.
Unfortanetly WebDrive insn't for free. Do you have any idea if there are some tools without paying licence fees?
What about Novell Netdrive.

brdgs, Stefan

 

[ssegebre]

Hi again,

you don't need a tool like WebDrive:

With Win XP SP2 and Office 2003 (incl. Sharepoint Extentions) you can map a WebDav Folder via NET USE:

e.g. net use X:

http://server/davlink

 

[oledent]

Hi,

good tip you found with the drive mapping using sharepoint component for MS-Office 2003.

Just to react regarding web-drive: it is not that expensive for the value it brings.

Regards,

Olivier