open a file and specify an editor

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Joined: Mar 2006

Hi

I am looking for a way to browse my website, find a page that needs editing and then click on an 'edit this page' link which will then load the selected page in Frontpage. This is for an admin person and not for general public use, i know how to make the link visible only to the admin person and i know that frontpage is one of the html editors available on their pc. What i don't know is how to specify that the selected page be opened in frontpage instead of the default browser. Can anyone help?

Don

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Joined: Apr 2006

The big problem there is that many people will not have frontpage, dreamweaver etc. In fact there are many editors out there so how will you know which one to open it with? This could involve having to query the visitors hard drive to look for installed programmes, and that brings up all sorts of privacy issues, not to mention firewall warnings flashed up.

Why not give instructions to visitors to save as? What is the end goal of them opening up the page in an editor?

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Joined: Mar 2006

It's for administrative purposes and i know that the only people that need to use it have Frontpage.

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Is the page in PHP? If so, you can. You would have to write a PHP code that verifies the IP of the computer, and if it matches the admin IP it would display a link that goes to FrontPage (like C:...frontpage/frontpage.exe. The problem is it would only open FrontPage; it won't load the page they are viewing in FrontPage. Kind of defeats the purpose. But you can make a link that only appears to an admin Smiling

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