View word/excel documents in ITS

[Former Member]

Hi,

Have any of you come across the following...

In transactions like FBV3, we can attach word/excel documents with a sap document. We can then view these documents. When I try to view the attached documents through Portal and ITS, I get a 'Select Program' dialog box from windows. I then have to find and select 'excel.exe' or 'word.exe' from program files for the attachment to open. Is there anyway to avoid the windows dialog ...

Thanks,

Smitha

[former_member185704]

Hi Smitha,

Please search within the ITS forum for the keywords "excel" and/or "word". There are several threads where this question was already discussed. Thank you!

Best regards,

Henning.

[Former Member]

Hi,

The questions that were discussed in the ITS forum were all related to writing code but I was not using any custom code. All that I tried to do was execute the transaction through Portal and ITS.

Anyway, the solution to my problem is the following...

the user needs to choose the program the first time only for an extension. This writes a file to their computer which the ITS uses for all subsequent requests. This needs to be done for each file type. (refer to SAP Note 554492)

Thanks for your reply.

-Smitha

[Former Member]

If you wanted to role the execookie.txt file out to your user community, assuming they all use Internet Explorer, you could role a file which lets IE determine which application to launch. The following file worked for me:

TXT

c:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe

JPG

c:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe

JPEG

c:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe

GIF

c:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe

DOC

c:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe

BMP

c:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe

PDF

c:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe

TIF

c:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe

PPT

c:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe

PPS

c:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe

XLS

c:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe

[Former Member]

Hi,

Only way to create execookie.txt file in all the end users PC?....

it is a massive effort...Any body has any solution other than this?...

Thank U,

Jaya.

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Jaya

[Former Member]

Hi Guys,

Only way to resolve this issue is creating the execookie.txt file in every end User PC.