Links between document

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anovotny

Hello,
I have following problem:
I have links between documents - hyperlink from docA to docB in MS Word or data source in fileA for fileB in MS Excel.
All of these documents are stored in alfresco DM.
But if I move the document to different folder, the links stop working.
Is there a way how to define the links in the document to work the same like the peer-to-peer association in alfresco?
Thank you.
Ales

norgan

Hi,
you would have to write a parser, which is able to edit MS Office documents. Even with a "normal" Web CMS, what you want is nontrivial, and doing it in "foreign format files" is even more fun, I am afraid.

Alternately, I guess, you would need to setup a "redirection" space with something like a redirection service, using a kind of "permalink" to http://myserver.com/Alfresco/Doclink?docid=08154711, like tiny urls. Moving the doc would then only change the url inside Alfresco, leaving the external link  with "docid=08154711" intact. you could generate somethine like this via an action "makePermaLink", which registers your document with the "tracer app" and generates this string, your editor is to use.

Second idea - maybe you can use metadata properties to make word parse the data into a form field. Only, that word will not update these fields automatically, the user has to push "F9" to do this. You would need a macro inside word as well, which is ugly.

Norgan