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Pushing templates to users PC's
I am new to word development and have a fairly tricky problem to solve:
We have developed a plug-in that helps our users to create standard reports in words. This plugin relies on a set of templates being on the users PC. At the moment we send them via email and ask the users to detatch them, but this is far from a great solution since it is unreliable at best, and means that when we have updated templates we cannot garantee that people will be using the right ones. For various reasons we cannot put the templates on a shared network drive (one is that we have offices around the world, so bandwidth is an issue) Does anyone have any ideas about how I could solve this problem (I have a few ideas, maybe connect to a web service to download them?), or any tips on where I can look for more advice? |
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The solution there is to update user login scripts, its a good solution, but
unfortunatly in our orginisation that is not going to be possible, I am really looking for a solution that can be coded into the word addin itself. "Jay Freedman" wrote: The last part of http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Macros...buteMacros.htm is devoted to this subject. I haven't tried to implement it, but some of the other MVPs have had experience in this area and can advise if you have further questions. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 00:57:02 -0800, Simon Reid Simon wrote: I am new to word development and have a fairly tricky problem to solve: We have developed a plug-in that helps our users to create standard reports in words. This plugin relies on a set of templates being on the users PC. At the moment we send them via email and ask the users to detatch them, but this is far from a great solution since it is unreliable at best, and means that when we have updated templates we cannot garantee that people will be using the right ones. For various reasons we cannot put the templates on a shared network drive (one is that we have offices around the world, so bandwidth is an issue) Does anyone have any ideas about how I could solve this problem (I have a few ideas, maybe connect to a web service to download them?), or any tips on where I can look for more advice? |
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I'm not sure I understand your objection to login scripts, but here's
another (untested) idea... Create an AutoExec macro in a global template (http://word.mvps.org/faqs/macrosvba/...ionEvents.htm). This macro can download the latest set of templates from a web page. To minimize bandwidth, the macro could first download and read a small text file in which you store the URLs and file dates of the current templates. If the dates in the file match the dates of the templates already on the local drive, then nothing more needs to happen. If any date in the text file is later than the template's date, the macro can download the new template from the corresponding URL. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Simon Reid wrote: The solution there is to update user login scripts, its a good solution, but unfortunatly in our orginisation that is not going to be possible, I am really looking for a solution that can be coded into the word addin itself. "Jay Freedman" wrote: The last part of http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Macros...buteMacros.htm is devoted to this subject. I haven't tried to implement it, but some of the other MVPs have had experience in this area and can advise if you have further questions. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 00:57:02 -0800, Simon Reid Simon wrote: I am new to word development and have a fairly tricky problem to solve: We have developed a plug-in that helps our users to create standard reports in words. This plugin relies on a set of templates being on the users PC. At the moment we send them via email and ask the users to detatch them, but this is far from a great solution since it is unreliable at best, and means that when we have updated templates we cannot garantee that people will be using the right ones. For various reasons we cannot put the templates on a shared network drive (one is that we have offices around the world, so bandwidth is an issue) Does anyone have any ideas about how I could solve this problem (I have a few ideas, maybe connect to a web service to download them?), or any tips on where I can look for more advice? |
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Thanks, I will give that a go
"Jay Freedman" wrote: I'm not sure I understand your objection to login scripts, but here's another (untested) idea... Create an AutoExec macro in a global template (http://word.mvps.org/faqs/macrosvba/...ionEvents.htm). This macro can download the latest set of templates from a web page. To minimize bandwidth, the macro could first download and read a small text file in which you store the URLs and file dates of the current templates. If the dates in the file match the dates of the templates already on the local drive, then nothing more needs to happen. If any date in the text file is later than the template's date, the macro can download the new template from the corresponding URL. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Simon Reid wrote: The solution there is to update user login scripts, its a good solution, but unfortunatly in our orginisation that is not going to be possible, I am really looking for a solution that can be coded into the word addin itself. "Jay Freedman" wrote: The last part of http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Macros...buteMacros.htm is devoted to this subject. I haven't tried to implement it, but some of the other MVPs have had experience in this area and can advise if you have further questions. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 00:57:02 -0800, Simon Reid Simon wrote: I am new to word development and have a fairly tricky problem to solve: We have developed a plug-in that helps our users to create standard reports in words. This plugin relies on a set of templates being on the users PC. At the moment we send them via email and ask the users to detatch them, but this is far from a great solution since it is unreliable at best, and means that when we have updated templates we cannot garantee that people will be using the right ones. For various reasons we cannot put the templates on a shared network drive (one is that we have offices around the world, so bandwidth is an issue) Does anyone have any ideas about how I could solve this problem (I have a few ideas, maybe connect to a web service to download them?), or any tips on where I can look for more advice? |
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