Re: Open, edit & save document via browser

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On 23 January 2015 17:16:42 GMT+00:00, David OBrien <dgobrien@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 12:13 PM, David OBrien <dgobrien@xxxxxxxxx>
>wrote:
>
>> Why did you pick S3?
>> If you could switch to google drive instead ( 100GB 1.99  a month,
>1TB
>> 9.99 a month ) their API allows you to use php to open and edit .docx
>files
>>
>> https://developers.google.com/drive/web/integrate-open
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 11:53 AM, 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>  Sorry for the previous top post
>
>Also this says you can create a link to a file stored on s3 and open it
>from there....
>
>Also, applications can create shortcuts to data stored outside of
>Drive, in
>a different data store or cloud storage system. If you need to store
>files
>or file-like resources outside of Drive for any reason, shortcuts allow
>you
>to still list them in Google Drive.
>
>Shortcuts behave a lot like files. They can be opened and created,
>indexed
>in search, and shared with other users. Unlike regular files, shortcuts
>do
>not contain any content, and when synced to a desktop are opened as
>URLs in
>the user's browser. Synced shortcut files are assigned the
>.glinkextension.
>
>For information and code samples for shortcuts, see Create a shortcut
>to a
>file
><https://developers.google.com/drive/web/integrate-create#create_a_shortcut_to_a_file>
>.

If you have full rights on your hosting, there is a fuse Ffilesystem in USEr space) module to allow you to connect an s3 volume as a local mount. That might help from an access pov
Thanks,
Ash

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