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Scott Chamberlain
Scott Chamberlain

Reputation: 127593

Open a sharepoint libriary document with edit privliages

I have a WCF service running on the sharepoint server that will generate a document in a library and return its uri. I have a client application that calls the WCF service and launches word with edit privileges of the document that was just generated. However if I just pass word the URI of the document it will open the document in Read-Only mode. Trying to save back to the server overwriting the old file gives the error saying the document is Read-Only when saving.

How do I, from code, launch word with the ability to save changes back in to the file it opened on the sharepoint server?

Note: This is not a permissions issue, if I manually go in to the sharepoint site I have rights to click on the document and open as edit.

EDIT: Ok, So I think I know how to do it (I am going to make a dll and have rundll.exe launch word and do the babysitting). However I still would like to know if there are any other solutions than manually checking in and out the document.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4591

Answers (2)

Scott Chamberlain
Scott Chamberlain

Reputation: 127593

I did not need to check out the document, what I found out is I needed to launch iexplore.exe pointing at the URI using the following code.

Process.Start("iexplore.exe", ((FileDetails)e.Result).Address);

where FileDetails is the custom object the WCF service is returning and .Address is the URI of the document.

Upvotes: 1

Kyle Trauberman
Kyle Trauberman

Reputation: 25694

You need to check out the document before opening it. 

SPListItem item = GetListItem();
item.File.CheckOut();

how to check-out document in document library programmatically in sharepoint

http://www.learningsharepoint.com/2010/09/05/programmatically-check-incheck-out-documents-in-sharepoint-2010/

Upvotes: 0

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