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Have a need to edit a document that is stored within SharePoint, but provide the link within another application?
Using just the URL to the document will only give you read-only access to the document, but a little bit of digging on the javascript involved provides a fairly simple solution.
Note that this has only been tested with Word 2007 and Excel 2007.
The short answer is to reference the following scripts (I do this in the <HEAD> section of the page):
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="http://<sharepoint server>/_layouts/1033/init.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="http://<sharepoint server>/_layouts/1033/core.js" defer></script>
For example:
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="http://tw-lt-m90-001/_layouts/1033/init.js" ></script> <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="http://tw-lt-m90-001/_layouts/1033/core.js" defer></script>
Then have the following for the link:
<A onfocus="OnLink(this)" HREF="<document url>" onclick="return DispEx(this,event,'TRUE','FALSE','TRUE','','0','SharePoint.OpenDocuments','','','','21','0','0','0x7fffffffffffffff')"> <document name> </A>
For example:
<A onfocus="OnLink(this)" href="http://tw-lt-m90-001/Documents/Hello%20World.doc" onclick="return DispEx(this,event,'TRUE','FALSE','TRUE','','0','SharePoint.OpenDocuments','','','','21','0','0','0x7fffffffffffffff')"> Hello World </A> Here is a full example that includes the icon for the file type as well. <HTML> <HEAD> <title>Documents</title> <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="http://tw-lt-m90-001/_layouts/1033/init.js" ></script> <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="http://tw-lt-m90-001/_layouts/1033/core.js" defer></script> </HEAD> <BODY> <TABLE width="100%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 border=0> <TR> <TD> <A TABINDEX=-1 href="http://tw-lt-m90-001/Documents/Hello%20World.doc" onclick="return DispEx(this,event,'TRUE','FALSE','TRUE','','0','SharePoint.OpenDocuments','','','','21','0','0','0x7fffffffffffffff')"> <IMG BORDER=0 ALT="Hello World.doc" title="Hello World.doc" src="http://tw-lt-m90-001/_layouts/images/icdoc.gif" > </A> </TD> <TD> <A onfocus="OnLink(this)" href="http://tw-lt-m90-001/Documents/Hello%20World.doc" onclick="return DispEx(this,event,'TRUE','FALSE','TRUE','','0','SharePoint.OpenDocuments','','','','21','0','0','0x7fffffffffffffff')"> Hello World </A> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </BODY> </HTML>
To reference an icon it is simply "ic<ext>.gif" (http://<sharepoint url>/_layouts/images/ic<ext>.gif, e.g., http://tw-lt-m90-001/_layouts/images/icdoc.gif). For a full listing of icon files see all "ic*.gif" files in the TEMPLATE\IMAGES directory under the 12 hive.
