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User mmcconnachie
Date 11/13/2007 6:09 am
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mmcconnachie

WebGUI 7.3.20 

I am exasperated trying to find a way to display word documents, spreadsheets or powerpoint presentations in WebGUI.

The files are imported and stored in the import/../attachments folder.

I have tried using iframe, which works fine for external sites, but this seems to always open the file in a new window, even when simply editing the article.

I do not want to have to download them.

Surely it is reasonably straightforward and I am being a complete idiot. I have had no luck using this forum, but confirmation of this would be much appreciated.

 



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It *sounds* as if you're trying to find a way to inline display some part of the contents of these documents in a webpage, but it's not entirely clear from your description.

If so, you're going to need some embeddable component which can read those files and do the display; I'm not sure how else you'd do it.

You *might* be able to do some kind of fancy OLE work, assuming 

  1. All visitors have Office
  2. All visitors are using Internet Exploiter

But whether that's practical depends on your environment, and I wouldn't have the first clue how to do it.

I'm not aware of any embeddable viewers for such documents either, though that doesn't mean they don't exist. 



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(I didn't notice until I got the email subscription copy, but you've posted this in the dev forum; it should probably be in Etcetera, since it doesn't pertain to WG internals; someone will likely move it for you.)

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