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Easy editing of documents in the web application

We have a web application that includes many documents. In a typical use case, the document will be generated from our web application. The user uploads the generated document to the local file system and modifies it. After this work, the user will upload the modified document back to the web application.

I need an easier way to work with web application and documents. It should be easy. Perhaps there is a way to edit the document in the webdav folder, similar to the sharepoint document list, and store it directly in the web application without storing the temporary document on the local file system.

But maybe there are better ideas.

PS: I don't want to use active x controls and it must be a web app :-)

Thank you for your help.

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I don't think this is possible without a plugin. I've used activex in the past, maybe it would be possible to write a cross platform Java applet?



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WebDav might be the way to go.

I would suggest that you create the file in a folder on the server, and then send the user to where they can edit and save it.

Disadvantages:



  • Users must have document editing software on their machines.
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Another option is to generate your documents as HTML and then use an HTML editor (such as FckEditor or FreeTextBox) to enable users to edit the document online.

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You can use Google Docs, which provides the ability to edit documents. It's free and you can use it in your web app too. you just need to refer to the DLL.

See the following link for details.
http://code.google.com/apis/documents/docs/2.0/developers_guide_dotnet.html

You can download google api data here.
http://code.google.com/p/google-gdata/downloads/list

Thank.

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