Hi,
I'm trying to get documents accessed via web links to open in Word on the client machine rather than in the browser window. I've had a look on ms website and found that you can acheive theis using client side vbscript. As follows:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=VBScript>
Dim objWord
Sub Btn1_onclick()
call OpenDoc("c:\j126.doc")
End Sub
Sub OpenDoc(strLocation)
Set objWord = CreateObject("Word.Application")
objWord.Visible = true
objWord.Documents.Open strLocation
End Sub
Sub Btn2_onclick()
call OpenDoc("c:\circulate.txt")
End Sub
Sub OpenDoc(strLocation)
Set objWord = CreateObject("Word.Application")
objWord.Visible = true
objWord.Documents.Open strLocation
End Sub
</SCRIPT>
<TITLE>Launch Word</Title>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<INPUT TYPE=BUTTON NAME=Btn1 VALUE="Open Word Doc"><BR>
<BR>
<INPUT TYPE=BUTTON NAME=Btn2 VALUE="Open Text Doc">
</BODY>
</HTML>This works if it's on the hard drive of my machine but when I try to run it on a web server it errors with "ActiveX component can't create object 'Word.Application'".
I suspect that this is because the code is running on the server side rather than the client side. Does anyone know if this is the case pls?
If it is, how can I get the code to run on the client side?
Thanks,
David
