Re: Document issues with file extension

Thanks this is awesome. Thanks for the explanation.


RP wrote:
I do not believe this has something to do with SharePoint.

DocIcon.xml contains registration for file types and I do not see
difference between tif & tiff.

Look at the following URLs:

docicon.xml: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms463701.aspx
"Adding a mapping definition for a file type" section in
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms868275.aspx

TIF & TIFF extensions are supported by windows by default and
configured differently for windows 2000 & windows xp/2003 with
different internet MIME & extension settings. Since you were able to
make it work changing the extension, it is not looking up for MIME
content.

To modify this behavior, you will have change client system registry
settings to specify .tiff files extensions as safe to open from
internet.

Hth,
RP

On Jan 17, 5:55 pm, robert.b.wal...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
When we save a TIFF document in SP (this is 2007), and the document
name is e.g. "Invoice", and try to open the document, it pops a
message asking is I want to save the document! If I say yes, and save
it on disk first, then I believe it does open it (with Microsoft
Imaging Viewer), although next time when I point the browser to it,
asks again to save...

If I name the document "Invoice.tif", then it works fine, i.e. it
does not prompt for a save (note that save is not an option here, is
either save or cancel).

The document is saved in SharePoint by our client code using some
Remoting API to SharePoint.

So my question is, is there some other field in SharePoint that will
make it recognize the file type (the icon showed in the list is also a
generic icon for "Invoice", but a MS Imaging icon for
"Invoice.tif")? We'd like not to have the user enter an extension
(tif) for the document name.

.

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