web components cannot find office xp license

[David Campbell]

I would like to use Web Components with Interactivity, but
this is not working on our installation of Office XP. We
are a college with a site license for Office XP and it is
installed on a network drive (which you probably don't
support, but please read on). The products are all
installed locally then part of it is moved to a network
drive just for space considerations. They are all
activated properly. When I use Web Components in Excel, I
can't get interactivity on the resulting web page. But I
CAN get it if I access the web page from another computer
with a regular Office XP installation. My question is,
where do Web Components look for the Office XP license and
why you suppose it is not finding it on our college
computers. I realize that our installation method is not
ideal, but I would like to know the answers to these
questions if anyone knows them. I have tried reinstalling
Web Components from a download, but that doesn't work. It
seems to be our Office XP installation.

David Campbell
Seattle Central Community College
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Alvin Bruney]

the licence check is built in to the office suite of products. if it sniffs
out a product, it then appropriately binds to the licencing mode. i suspect
your college install is not correct in licencing terms.
follow this link to sniff out the problem:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/developer/platform/owcfaq.asp

if this does not point you in the correct direction then you may need to
create a licence package file
follow this link
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;288732

regards

 

[David Campbell]

Alvin,

Thanks for the information. I was aware of these license issues and how to
make a license package file. The problem with the license package file is
that it must be inserted into every web page that contains the office web
component. We are a school and need to allow students to make new web pages
with web components without creating license packages for each one.

So my question is - how do the web components verify the office xp license?
I have an office xp license that they are not finding for some reason.

David Campbell

 

[Alvin Bruney]

Basically, it polls the registry for the required dll's. If it finds it, it
examines the dll for the installed license mode. roughly. I've re-read your
early post. You may be asking which part of the installation is required to
be on the desktop because you moved another portion to the network. I don't
know the answer to this, but that is where the problem may lie. To confirm
this, use the following script in a page to make sure that the component is
installed. The script detects whether or not OWC is installed. If this
script works, then we can definitely say that the issue is because of the
separation of the install on the desktop and network.

<script language="vbscript">
Sub CheckForOWC()
Dim objOWC
Dim retval
on error resume next
Dim downloadPath
downloadPath =
"http://download.microsoft.com/download/OfficeXPStandard/owc10/1033/WIN98MeX
P/EN-US/owc10.exe"

Set objOWC = CreateObject("OWC10.Chartspace")
if(objOWC is nothing) then
msgbox ("OWC not found",3,"Critical component missing!")
else
if(objOWC.MajorVersion < 10) then
msgbox ("OWC not found",3,"Critical component missing!")
end if
end if
End Sub
</script>