Re: Managing a Database using Word / IIS
From: Cindy M -WordMVP- (C.Meister-C_at_hispeed.ch)
Date: 08/17/04
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Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 14:41:48 +0200
Hi =?Utf-8?B?QWFyb24gRw==?=,
Since Automation of Office applications on the server is highly DIScouraged by
Microsoft, it would certainly be better to solve this as you desire... Which
version of Office would be involved? What kinds of documents would you need to
generate?
This sounds like just the kind of thing the new Office 2003 XML was designed
for. In a pinch, you could probably also generate/read Word HTML that can be
worked with using Word 2000 and later.
FWIW, there is no way to read/write the Word binary file format (excpet through
a programming language such as C++)
> I have a fairly ambitious client who would like to offload the management of
> intranet content to other individuals in the organization. For the project
> to be successful, the data management must be as painless as possible.
> Accordingly, the ideal interface for data input is Microsoft Word, as most
> users are extremely comfortable working with it.
>
> I would like to be able to create word templates/forms which are dynamically
> populated with data from an database, then downloaded to the client PC. Once
> the data is updated, I would like the user to upload their files back to the
> server, which will in turn update its database and maintain an audit-trail of
> all changes.
>
> Can this be done? I'm assuming that if I install Office on the server, it
> would be feasible using the office API, but I would love to be able to do
> this without office on the server..
>
Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
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