External Link for Editing a SharePoint Document 

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Have a need to edit a document that is stored within SharePoint, but provide the link within another application?

Using just the URL to the document will only give you read-only access to the document, but a little bit of digging on the javascript involved provides a fairly simple solution.

Note that this has only been tested with Word 2007 and Excel 2007.

The short answer is to reference the following scripts (I do this in the <HEAD> section of the page):

<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="http://<sharepoint server>/_layouts/1033/init.js"></script>

<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="http://<sharepoint server>/_layouts/1033/core.js" defer></script>

For example:

<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="http://tw-lt-m90-001/_layouts/1033/init.js"></script>

<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="http://tw-lt-m90-001/_layouts/1033/core.js" defer></script>

Then have the following for the link:

<A onfocus="OnLink(this)" HREF="<document url>" onclick="return DispEx(this,event,'TRUE','FALSE','TRUE','','0','SharePoint.OpenDocuments','','','','21','0','0','0x7fffffffffffffff')">

 <document name>

</A>

For example:

<A onfocus="OnLink(this)" HREF="http://tw-lt-m90-001/Documents/Hello%20World.doc" onclick="return DispEx(this,event,'TRUE','FALSE','TRUE','','0','SharePoint.OpenDocuments','','','','21','0','0','0x7fffffffffffffff')">

Hello World

</A>

Here is a full example that includes the icon for the file type as well.

<HTML>

 

<HEAD>

<title>Documents</title>

<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="http://tw-lt-m90-001/_layouts/1033/init.js"></script>

<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="http://tw-lt-m90-001/_layouts/1033/core.js" defer></script>

</HEAD>

 

<BODY>

  

<TABLE width="100%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 border=0>

<TR>

<TD>

<A TABINDEX=-1 HREF="http://tw-lt-m90-001/Documents/Hello%20World.doc" onclick="return DispEx(this,event,'TRUE','FALSE','TRUE','','0','SharePoint.OpenDocuments','','','','21','0','0','0x7fffffffffffffff')">

<IMG BORDER=0 ALT="Hello World.doc" title="Hello World.doc" SRC="http://tw-lt-m90-001/_layouts/images/icdoc.gif">

</A>

</TD>

<TD>

 <A onfocus="OnLink(this)" HREF="http://tw-lt-m90-001/Documents/Hello%20World.doc" onclick="return DispEx(this,event,'TRUE','FALSE','TRUE','','0','SharePoint.OpenDocuments','','','','21','0','0','0x7fffffffffffffff')">

Hello World

 </A>

</TD>

</TR>

</TABLE>

 

</BODY>

</HTML>

To reference an icon it is simply "ic<ext>.gif" (http://<sharepoint url>/_layouts/images/ic<ext>.gif, e.g., http://tw-lt-m90-001/_layouts/images/icdoc.gif).  For a full listing of icon files see all "ic*.gif" files in the TEMPLATE\IMAGES directory under the 12 hive.

 
Posted by Kirk Liemohn on 14-Oct-07
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Philip commented on Monday, 17-Mar-2008
I think you can use the VSTO (Visual Studio Tools for Office) to do that, but than you'll have to implement the code for each type of office document and each version of office. Using the existing scripts of SharePoint is very usefull but its difficult to find documentation about those javascript functions. It seams people who find that solution just enquire on which javascript code is executed when we open a document. So, if you have more information, it would be great from you to share it again :) Thank you.

Jason commented on Friday, 18-Apr-2008
Great post - I was playing with that JS for a while and couldn't get it to work. I am wondering if you also came up with a way to link directly to the document library's delete prompt as well?

Kirk Liemohn commented on Sunday, 20-Apr-2008
Jason, I haven't tried doing a delete this way, but you should be able to view the browser's HTML source to figure it out.

Lennin commented on Friday, 25-Apr-2008
That didn't work for me whenever I have 2003 clients. I used this instead: Memo.doc

Lennin commented on Friday, 25-Apr-2008
Oops the code didn't show before: <a href="#" onclick="editDocumentWithProgID2('/myWeb/Lists/Documents/Memo.doc', '', 'SharePoint.OpenDocuments', '0', 'server/myWeb', '0')"> Memo.doc </a>

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