Re: [xwiki-users] Inserting links to files on network drives - xwiki-users@xwiki.org

25 Jan 2012

Vincent,

Thanks for the suggestion - I've managed to view the attachments in Windows
XP file browser 

... but I can't edit them -  how do I config it so I can edit the file???

Regards,

Richard

-----Original Message-----
From: users-bounces(a)xwiki.org [mailto:users-bounces@xwiki.org] On Behalf Of
Vincent Massol
Sent: 25 January 2012 10:50
To: XWiki Users
Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] Inserting links to files on network drives

Hi Richard,

On Jan 25, 2012, at 11:28 AM, goldring, richard wrote:

...
  Hi,

 Managers and other users at my company like to update excel 
 spreadsheets on work progress. These spreadsheets get updated quite 
 frequently by many users so attaching them to the wiki isn't so 
 practical because of the overhead of checking checking the attachments in and out.
...

 So I'd like to make it easier for managers to put in links to these 
 spreadsheets from a wiki page: So the  users can (from the wiki 
 WYSIWYG
 editor) browse to the spreadsheet files and insert them without having 
 to workout the syntax e.g. file:// and the network drive, etc.

 How might I go about editing/adding macros to do this? 
The solution we propose for this is WebDAV (search xwiki.org on webdav).
Mount your wiki as a webdav driver.
This allows you to see the attachments for example.
Work in your favorite editor for those attachments.
When you save in your editor the attachment is updated remotely.

The only possible issue is with concurrent locking. It's possible that if
one has the lock others will only be able to open the attachment in read
only. To be tested. Let us know!

Thanks
-Vincent

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