I'm trying to open a file for edit from Office365's OneDrive in desktop version of Word(I'm logged in with my Office 365 account) using ms-word protocol and I have noticed that there are several possibilities:
Sometimes file opens in edit mode, I can edit file and by pressing Ctrl + S save it directly to OneDrive without being prompted for any additional actions.
Sometimes file opens in Read Only mode, I can switch to Editor mode, but then when I try to save file I'm prompted to specify save location(default location is my OneDrive directory with this file).
Sometimes Word asks me to login to my Office365 account(even though I'm logged in with this account in Word), then opens file in Read Only mode and after it looks like 2nd case.
I would like to open it as described in 1st case so user doesn't have to make any additional actions.
My current scenario is:
User calls an API to create file.
API creates file in user's OneDrive using Microsoft Graph.
API returns direct URL to file and I open this file in Word using ms-word protocol.
By direct URL to file I mean: https://domain-my.sharepoint.com/personal/account/Documents/Apps/Microsoft Graph/appname/directoryname/filename.docx
URL to open file looks like:
ms-word:ofe|u|<file path specified above>
And as I described at the beginning there are 3 cases how file is opened and it looks randomly for me.
I have also noticed that when I open my file in Word Online(using web url to file) and then I press Edit in Word it uses exactly the same file URL I have created and returned to user but from here the file always open with 1st scenario.
Do you have any ideas why this behaves differently when I manually open file using ms-word protocol compared to Word Online using ms-word protocol with exactly the same url?
I would like to always open file from user's OneDrive in desktop Word in scenario when user doesn't have to make any additional steps to edit and save file back to OneDrive.
(I don't have reputation so I can't comment. I will try again with a partial answer.)
There is always a chance that the credentials will have to be refreshed, so there is no way to completely prevent Office apps from prompting for credentials but it should be relatively uncommon.
As to the issue of opening in edit mode vs protected mode: There are a variety of reasons why some files will open into protected view: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/What-is-Protected-View-d6f09ac7-e6b9-4495-8e43-2bbcdbcb6653
If you have a file that seemingly opens in edit mode vs some version of readonly or protected view, please use answers.microsoft.com where the conversation doesn't have to fit into the stackoverflow model.
when I open my file in Word Online(using web url to file) and then I press Edit in Word it uses exactly the same file URL
You suggest that the URLs are identical, but my first thought was that the difference may have been that the Word Online link uses the driveItem's webDavUrl property rather than baseItem's webUrl
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/developer/rest-api/resources/driveitem#json-representation
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I need to upload a file to OneDrive, via the command line. This will be done through a batch file which is distributed to end users.
From searching on Stack Overflow, I find questions like this one which say that you need to register an app and create an app password, using Azure. I don't have the necessary permissions to do this in the organization where I work, nor can I do anything that requires an admin account. So I can't any install software - I have to use what comes with Windows 10. I can't use VBA either as that's blocked.
I've managed to download files from OneDrive without anything like that, using the process described here:
Open the URL in either of the browser.
Open Developer options using Ctrl+Shift+I.
Go to Network tab.
Now click on download. Saving file isn’t required. We only need the network activity while browser requests the file from the server.
A new entry will appear which would look like “download.aspx?…”.
Right click on that and Copy → Copy as cURL.
Paste the copied content directly in the terminal and append ‘--output file.extension’ to save the content in file.extension since
terminal isn’t capable of showing binary data.
Example:
curl https://xyz.sharepoint.com/personal/someting/_layouts/15/download.aspx?UniqueId=cefb6082%2D696e%2D4f23%2D8c7a%2
…. some long text ….
cCtHR3NuTy82bWFtN1JBRXNlV2ZmekZOdWp3cFRsNTdJdjE2c2syZmxQamhGWnMwdkFBeXZlNWx2UkxDTkJic2hycGNGazVSTnJGUnY1Y1d0WjF5SDJMWHBqTjRmcUNUUWJxVnZYb1JjRG1WbEtjK0VIVWx2clBDQWNyZldid1R3PT08L1NQPg==;
cucg=1’ --compressed --output file.extension
I tried to do something similar after clicking 'upload' on the browser, but didn't find anything useful when trying to filter the requests.
I found these two questions but there is no keyboard shortcut to upload, AFAICT. Also the end user will be uploading a file to a folder I've shared with them from my OneDrive. Opening Chrome or Edge as a minimised window is fine, but I can't just shove a window in their face which automatically clicks on things - they won't like that.
It's just occurred to me that I might be able to use an office application to Save As the file to the necessary onedrive folder, where the keyboard shortcuts are pretty stable, but have no idea how to achieve that via the command line.
The best and more secure way to accomplish this goal I think is going to be with the Rest API for OneDrive.
(Small Files <4MB)
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/developer/rest-api/api/driveitem_put_content?view=odsp-graph-online
(Large files)
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/developer/rest-api/api/driveitem_createuploadsession?view=odsp-graph-online
You still need a Azure AD App Registration (which your admin should be able to configure for you), to provide API access to services in Azure. Coding with the API is going to be far easier and less complicated, not to mention more versatile.
Our users write in a rich-text field, pretty much like this one, and we would like for them to be able to export this as a Word Document in their OneDrive, preserving the formatting, and being able to open the file in Word Online.
I have no trouble creating new files using the https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/ api. The problem is the conversion to docx. The google api provides this conversion automatically, but I did not find that for Microsoft. I tried using html-docx-js and it almost works perfectly.
The file is created:
However when opening the file the following dialog pops up:
Opening in read-only mode works, the file shows with the correct formatting.
Downloading the file and opening in desktop word works perfectly (i.e. editing as well).
The HTML-content i use is a simple div with a few p-tags, so the "Objects that Word Online doesn't support" probably comes from html-docx-js.
Here's an example word-file that is created. This file can be opened as normal in desktop Word but only opened in read-only in Word Online
https://1drv.ms/w/s!AqpUGtnMiyurgwE543OscH7PdLnY
Any ideas?
I would like to add a link to a local file in confluence. Obviously this link would only work if the file is locally on the users computer. I understand that.
If I add the address like this :
file:///D:/dev/ngs-frontend/src/pages/myPage.html
The browser sends me to :
about:blank
If I try to add it with quotes like so :
"file:///D:/dev/ngs-frontend/src/pages/myPage.html"
..confluence crashes!
How is it possible in confluence?
As you mentioned when adding the web link in Confluence specifying the file using the file protocol (file:///) you might face the issue that it doesn't work.
Obviously this link would only work if the file is locally on the users computer.
This is not entirely true. If you open the developer tools you most likely will be getting the error "Not allowed to load local resource"
As measure of security the browser won't let you access files from a different origin, specially from the users computer (this would be a serious security risk). Only imagine if you could access the files in the Windows directory from the browser, you could break apart the operating system in no time (or steal user data).
This is explained in here
If you put the file in the same server Confluence is running, then this should work just fine. However I believe you can save time just adding the page as an attachment and loading it (Confluence is pretty decent at version controlling in case you want to modify the html file).
Hope this helps!
I'm creating an org-mode file that uses org-info.js to provide dynamic folding of exported HTML.
If I open the resulting HTML in a browser, I can copy the URL and paste it into an email that others can access by clicking but only if it's the top-level point on the page (no internal page target).
If I try opening a URL that points to an internal link (file:....#sec-2, for example), I get a "General failure. The URL was: .... The system cannot find the path specified." Deleting the "#sec-2" part of the link allows it to work just fine.
FWIW, I'm using org-mode 7.5 and the online version of org-info.js.
Is there a way to have this work?
Incidentally, the URL looks like file://fully/qualified/path/name.html (or name.html#sec-2) in the browser. When I add it as a hyperlink to a bit of text in Outlook (yes, I know; I use Gnus elsewhere), it transforms it into \fully\qualified\path\name.html. The lack of the file: and the / to \ doesn't seem to matter; the #target does matter.
I am to create a new design (CSS & HTML) for a web site which is created using Interwoven ContentCenter Professional.
Now, I can see the existing files in CMS (Interwoven) but, I can't make changes. My changes are displayed only when I'm in edit mode. Nothing in the live page. I tried to submit, create editions of files but still no good.
How should I create or edit pages in Interwoven CMS?
Thanks.
If you're talking about generic pages, then once you are finished you have to click on the Generate option, then choose a directory and click Finish. Last thing you should do is to choose yeswhen it asks you to Re-generate the page.
What you are trying to do is just creating a new file, not generating a file from TeamSite's Formpublisher. It is just like if you are in Windows Explorer and creating a new file. In order to generate a file from a form entry, you need to be in the templatedata directory, ex: /default/main/branch1/WORKAREA/wa1/templatedata/category/type(on unix) or Y:/default/main/branch1/WORKAREA/wa1/templatedata/category/type (on Windows). There should be a file call datacapture.cfg there. There is another directory called data under the above path which stores your data content record (dcr) that are created from the form. This is the file that you can use to generate which will use the (tpl) file under the presentation directory.