Web deploy template?

[Chad Knudson]

I have a rather large document template that is updated frequently so I
would like to deploy it via a webpage ala the templates on the Microsoft
templates website and not have to deploy it on individual machines
throughout the organization. Not everyone has access to file shares while
they are on the road, so we can't put it in a network directory and point
the workgroup template directory to a single location. Everyone in the
organization does, however, have access to the company website via a browser
even when they are out of the office.

 

[Word Heretic]

G'day "Chad Knudson" <[email protected]>,

the simplest method is to just include instructions on the download
page to:

1. Download

2. Open Word, check out Tools > File locations > <relevant path>

3. Close Word.

4. Copy the download into the path from 2.


For US $50 I can work with you to tailor up my batch method of doing
the same so you can have auto-install packages that do the same thing.

I also always zip the web packages to stop unwanted security problems.

I have a rather large document template that is updated frequently so I
would like to deploy it via a webpage ala the templates on the Microsoft
templates website and not have to deploy it on individual machines
throughout the organization. Not everyone has access to file shares while
they are on the road, so we can't put it in a network directory and point
the workgroup template directory to a single location. Everyone in the
organization does, however, have access to the company website via a browser
even when they are out of the office.

Steve Hudson

Word Heretic, Sydney, Australia
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[Chad Knudson]

I was hoping to emulate more of the model that is employed on the Microsoft
Template Gallery website. I haven't had a chance to look much into what
outc.dll does from that site, but I'd imagine that's along the lines of what
I'll need to do. I need a solution that is at most a click of a button on a
webpage for the end user. This is a deployment of many seats, so if the end
users had to go through the process of copying down the template it would be
too expensive.

 

[Lars-Eric Gisslén]

Chad,

The dll downloads the document to the local computer and starts Word with
the document opened. If you are familiar with Internet programming it's not
hard at all to write such a component.

Regards,
Lars-Eric

 

[Chad Knudson]

I ended up writing an ActiveX control to do just that. It does a quick
version check and downloads the template to the user's machine if the server
has a newer version available and then starts up Word creating a new
document based on that template.