Actually, both Moz and Firefox will open them but it won't open in the browser. You get prompted with an Open/Cancel dialog, and if you allow it, the browser will open the document in a new window with the appropriate application (this is true of both 1.5 and 2.0.0.1 using default out-the-box configurations). We actually have a very similar setup with one of our Wiki tools. Using XWiki10B2 (B1 has a bug with the upload dialog), this becomes even more seamless to the user, as you get dialogs that will help you pick your files, and create links to offsite documents. To answer your concern about documents on the webserver, don't worry. If your users wish to upload their documents to keep a static version of it (as happens with my company for a particular wiki tool we use), they can do this without needing additional rights, but you may have to tweak MySQL and XWiki's default upload configuration if the filesize is going to be larger than a certain size (MySQL has this oddball default limitation that is not obvious to the eye when debugging). Opening in a new window for Internet Explorer is a bit more detailed, but not much. You may have to introduce a bit of code to open in a new window, but as it is baasic HTML at the end of the day, anyone with a bit of web experience can do this. Happy XWiki'ing! ________________________________ From: Peter Flynn [mailto:pflynn@adobe.com] Sent: 12 January 2007 23:25 To: xwiki-users(a)objectweb.org Subject: RE: [xwiki-users] external documents Note that Mozilla / Firefox will not open these sorts of links when you click them, for security reasons. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84128 - Peter ________________________________ From: Gourment, Olivier [mailto:ogourment@optimuminformatique.com] Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 2:23 PM To: xwiki-users(a)objectweb.org Subject: RE: [xwiki-users] external documents Thanks for the answer and let me try to explain my concern better. If we introduce XWiki in our organization, it will have to coexist with other information stores. Currently, most people use Word and other Office applications to create documents and place them on Windows shares or network directories. There will be many times when people using XWiki will want to point to such existing documents, without having to import them into XWiki or move them onto a Web server. Unless there are other best practices that I am not aware of (and in which case I would love hear about), people will need to insert links (anchors) to what I called "external documents". Does this make more sense? Thanks, Olivier ________________________________ De : Sergiu Dumitriu [mailto:sergiu.dumitriu@gmail.com] Envoyé : 12 janvier 2007 17:04 À : xwiki-users(a)objectweb.org Objet : Re: [xwiki-users] external documents Hi, I'm not sure I understand your question. You can point to files stored on the webserver. All the skin files (css and image) are retrieved that way. Let's not forget that XWiki outputs plain old HTML, and you can always include HTML content in a document. On 1/12/07, Gourment, Olivier <ogourment(a)optimuminformatique.com> wrote: Hi, Is it possible in a page to point to a document/file on the file system? If yes, does clicking on the link open the file a new window? Thanks, Olivier