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

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Hamster <teunham@hotmail.com> wrote:

Vincent,

We are looking for a similar solution, but WebDAV no solution.

If I understand WebDAV correctly: the documents are attached to the wiki (uploaded to the server where the wiki runs)...

We DONT want to attach these kind of spreadsheets to the Wiki, they MUST reside in their original folderlocation on the server. In fact, we don't want to upload any documents to the Wiki. All documents must also be accessible from Windows Explorer. We just want a link to these documents from the Wiki.

Having another piece of software to browse for documents which are located on another server is simply out-of-the-question...

Any other suggestions?

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I might be missing something, but... [[label>>unc:\\server\path\to\resource]]