Thank's Jeffry. FTP isn't an option as it's needs to be seamless in the application and aside from that 99.9% of users won't have a clue about FTP and using clients. It just adds a barrier. On 23 January 2015 at 16:53, Jeffry Killen <jekillen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Jan 23, 2015, at 4:59 AM, Adrian Walls wrote: > > Hi, >> >> I'm trying to find a solution which via our application would open a >> document (docx) stored on AWS S3 allowing a user to make amendments to the >> document on their local machine via MS Office or OpenOffice but when they >> click save it would automatically save the document all the way back to >> S3. >> >> Is this something that would be possible to implement and if so I'd >> appreciate any suggestions as how I would go about it. I've had a look at >> Webdav but I'm don't think it's suitable for this task as the documents >> are >> stored in various different accounts on the system plus I can't see how to >> push this all the way back to S3. >> >> Thanks in advance. >> > > Hi: > > I think that the closest you will get to this is to use an ftp client. > forgive my ignorance but I am not familiar with S3. IF it is sometning > the user can establish an ftp connection to, then in the ftp client > preferences > find the preference that allows you to tell the ftp client what > application to > open a file with. This would require the user to have a local ftp client > installed > ( use Fetch on Mac OSX), and the preference set. > > In my case I establish a connection to a host, local or remote, and open a > file > for edit. The file is opened in the application specified and then the > changes > are saved back to the original file at the location it was opened from. > > JK > > -- Adrian Walls 23sparks Tel: +44 (0) 28 4179 8226 Mob: +44 (0) 77 3447 3615 Email: awalls@xxxxxxxxxxxx Web: http://www.23sparks.com Registered office: 8 Osborne Promenade, Warrenpoint, Newry, Co. Down BT34 3NQ Registered in Northern Ireland no. NI50666 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE This email is private and confidential and may contain legally privileged information. If you are not named as an addressee it may be unlawful for you to read, copy, distribute, disclose or otherwise use the information contained in this email. If you are not the intended recipient of this email please destroy this communication and contact awalls@ <awalls@xxxxxxxxxxxx>23sparks.com.
