Using WebDav

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WEBCON BPS already supports Webdav on Standalone installations. You have to enable the edit functionality on the attachments property.

For SharePoint integrated installations, you also have to create an attachments library under "System Settings" / "Global Parameters" / "Sharepoint configuration"

What i never tried is, whether you can edit other than office documents in WEBCON BPS or not. But this is maybe what you are looking for.

Hi,

we have a similar problem, however with the same permission settings in Webcon, on some computers (or user profiles) editing is possible directly through WebDAV, but on other computers (user profiles), when clicking on the document, the docs get downloaded instead of opened in word or excel. Anybody else had a similar problem?

Best regards

Aleš

Hi Aleš,

the documents are opened using an URL using the ms-word protocol:

ms-word:ofe|u|https://.....

So the users my have clicked in the "don't open" in Word confirmation or there's a problem with the word installation itself:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_word-mso_win10-mso_365hp/word-2016-not-associated-with-ms-word-protocol/e632466a-ce13-4857-ba83-634e1f4c499b



Maybe this helps to identify the problem.

Best regards,
Daniel

Thanks for the answer! It seems that it only works for pdf files. All the office ones (word, excel, even csv....) work by default without the webdav extension installed. The extension seems to enable PDF editing. That is great. WebDav is capable of editing txt and other files, but for these it seems that the webcon portal doesn't make the edit button visible.

Daniel, hi,

The actual culprit was Malwarebytes for Windows that was installed on two hp laptops by default. When I disabled the antinalware, editing started to work.

Best regards

Aleš

Hi Aleš,

thanks for the update. This would be something for a " Errors and potential solutions list" :)

Best regards,
Daniel

Where I see th issue and so far haven't found a solution:
Yes, if you set the checkbox "Edit file" you will find the "Edit" Icon for PDF files, too.
But it will only open the document in the browser where the functionality is highly limited.
I.e. applying a digital signature is not possible.

Isn't there any way (maybe with some code) to open the PDF in the Adobe App.

A solution here would be highly appreciated.