Web site question - html help needed

[Sideswipe001]

Currently at work, we use our Intranet website to host individual timesheets for the week. People simply open the brower, hit timesheet, then click on their name and the week listed. The timesheets themselves are Excel files.

As it sits right now, if we link to the sheets using an http address, like this:

http://OurIntranetName.com/timesheet/Bob/032804.xls

When they access it using that address, it refuses to let them "edit" the file. It will open it into Excel, but you can only Save As, etc. There is no way to simply edit the already existing file.

Now, if I edit the link so it links to a file, like this:

file://OurServerName/timesheet/Bob/032804.xls

It will work (for people on the LAN) allowing you to save the file that you opened.


I know that the 2nd way treats is as if the person had surfed to that file using Exporer and opened the file.

Is there a way to use an http:// link to allow people to open the file and still be able to edit it? I'm using IIS 6 to host the intranet site on Windows 2000 server.

 

[Beau]

Originally posted by: Sideswipe001

Is there a way to use an http:// link to allow people to open the file and still be able to edit it? I'm using IIS 6 to host the intranet site on Windows 2000 server.

No.

AFAIK, HTTP is a serving protocol only, not an editing protocol

You could try setting up an FTP link to that file.

 

[AFB]

He's right. But what you could do is setup a windows box and use it for file sharing. The links would be somthing like this:

\\server'sname\folder\file.xls

You could even keep you existing http server and just set the links to go to the one like I showed you. Would that work for you ?