Why not working---automation server question?

[jinglin]

I'm new to ColdFusion.
In my cfm file I used the following codes to open up Word, and it worked fine.
var doc = new ActiveXObject("Word.Application"); // creates the word object
doc.Visible=true; // display Word window

doc.Documents.Open("//myPath/mailMerge.dot"); // specify path to document

but when I used it on my user's machine who is using Internet Explorer Ver.5 and Windows 2000, I got the message like this:

Automation Server can't create an object

I have no clue how and why this happened. Could you help me out!

Thanks a lot!

 

[ecobb]

I think you get this either when you don't have Active X enabled in the browser, or it could be a corrupted Windows Script component. Either way, it's not a ColdFusion problem, there's something not set up right on the user's PC.



Hope This Helps!

ECAR
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[jinglin]

Do you know how to fix it---I mean where to start.
My super asked the user to update his IE to ver.6. you think it might be OK?

thanks!

 

[TruthInSatire]

sounds like you don't have a captive audiance with settings you're sure of. You may want to consider a com object solution vice activex.

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