Publish to document management server

[philm]

Users of my web site click on links to Word documents and download
them. Currently they edit them and save them to their hard drive, then
go to a web page which allows them to find them on their hard drive
and upload them again. Then they delete their copy.

They want me to program something so they can just click on the link,
edit, and then save right back to the website.

One idea I had is using Word 2007, they could publish to a 'document
management server' but I cannot find any information on what is
expected at the server end to receive the 'published' doucment. Anyone
know whether Sharepoint is the only recipieint of this publishing? (I
can't use Sharepoint).

Other ideas (the web site is ASP.Net).

Thanks

 

[Jonathan West]

Users of my web site click on links to Word documents and download
them. Currently they edit them and save them to their hard drive, then
go to a web page which allows them to find them on their hard drive
and upload them again. Then they delete their copy.

They want me to program something so they can just click on the link,
edit, and then save right back to the website.

One idea I had is using Word 2007, they could publish to a 'document
management server' but I cannot find any information on what is
expected at the server end to receive the 'published' doucment. Anyone
know whether Sharepoint is the only recipieint of this publishing? (I
can't use Sharepoint).

Forget it. Publishing to a DMA system is only a practical possibility within
an organisation where you can have the DMS's addins tightly integrated into
Word. If people are downloading documents from the web, then that situation
almost certainly doesn't & can't apply. Just tell people that they are
asking for something that is wildly impractical.

 

[PhilM]

Forget it. Publishing to a DMA system is only a practical possibility within
an organisation where you can have the DMS's addins tightly integrated into
Word. If people are downloading documents from the web, then that situation
almost certainly doesn't & can't apply. Just tell people that they are
asking for something that is wildly impractical.

Thanks, sometimes you just need someone to tell you with some degree
of authroity, that which you already sense.
I had also considered using WebDav to 'save as' to a web folder, but
that adds security exposures to the web server and needs programming
at the web end.
Thanks
Phil