Openoffice with firefox and webdav
Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 1:11 pm
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 want to be able to do is open up an open office document
within the firefox browser window in view mode, but then if I press
the edit button open a new full editing window in openoffice.
When the user now saves it is sent to the webdav server.
To do this I am using the OpenOffice firefox plugin. 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 file back to the web.
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.
Any ideas on how to use openoffice within a webdav environment ?
Cheers
Terry
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 want to be able to do is open up an open office document
within the firefox browser window in view mode, but then if I press
the edit button open a new full editing window in openoffice.
When the user now saves it is sent to the webdav server.
To do this I am using the OpenOffice firefox plugin. 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 file back to the web.
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.
Any ideas on how to use openoffice within a webdav environment ?
Cheers
Terry