Openoffice with firefox and webdav: Improved nsplugin

[TerryBarnaby]

Hi,

I am trying to use OpenOffice in a webdav environment with firefox.
I have come across some issues in Openoffice that make this difficult.
What I would like to be able to do is open up an open office document
within the firefox browser window in view mode, but then if the user presses
the edit button, a new full editing openoffice window would appear.
When the user now saves a modified file it is sent to the webdav server
using the webdav protocols.

I have tried to use the OpenOffice firefox plugin to achieve this. This almost
works but has the following problem:

1. The firefox plugin downloads the document to a file and instructs
openoffice to open that rather than open the link directly. This
stops the user from being able to easily save the contents back to the webdav
server.

It would be good if the firefox plugin would read and send the modified content
via the firefox browser connection to the webserver. This would provide
good integration with webdav servers.

I have also tried using mozplugger to open openoffice in the browser window
in view mode with the "stream" option. This again semi works but has
the following problem:

1. If you open a URL in view mode and then click on the edit button then
an openoffice dialog pops up stating you cannot write to the file.
I would have thought that openoffice should realise that the URL is to
a webdav server that supports writing and implement the webdav write.
It does do this if you open the URL in edit mode to begin with.

Any ideas on how to use openoffice within a webdav environment ?

Cheers

Terry

[Lazy-legs]

You did post you question here: http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/ ... f=7&t=1614 There is no need to cross-post.

Kind regards,
Dmitri

[TerryBarnaby]

You did post you question here: viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1614 There is no need to cross-post.

Yes, sorry if this is not Ok. Someone suggested I would be better off posting in another list and I could not see a method of moving my original post.

Terry

[Hagar Delest]

To avoid the discussion to be split, I lock the thread.