[Zope] Re: ExternalEditor and M$ Word setup?

[Casey Duncan]

Does the file have the .doc extension? Is its MIME type set correctly in Zope?

Try adding this to the ini file:

[content-type:application/msword]
extension=.doc

hth,

-Casey

On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 14:28:54 +0200
Jean Jordaan <jean@upfrontsystems.co.za> wrote:

> Hi Casey & lists
> 
> We aim to use ExternalEditor as the crux of our CMF for end-users.
> When logged in to Plone, the ExternalEditor icon shows up with the
> user's content. Which strikes me as very, very cool.
> 
> It works fine for plaintext content, but it will have to work with
> Microsoft Word (and/or OpenOffice). Currently, when I try this, Word
> tells me that it doesn't have an importer for this type of content
> (though it is a plain .doc file I'm editing), and opens the file as
> unconverted gunk with some recognizable text here and there. I'm
> guessing that this may be thanks to ExternalEditor's tempfile name.
> 
> Does anyone have a ZopeEdit.ini that works with Word?
> 
> -- 
> Jean Jordaan
> http://www.upfrontsystems.co.za
>