Re: [viewvc-users] ViewVC and Office 2007

C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> Ghassemi, Hamid wrote:
>> Thanks, using the correct Mime Types took care of the download issue as a
>> zip file.  However, there is the issue of viewing the file which would
>> open the file as text, hence seeing un-readable characters.  Is there is
>> a setting in ViewVC configuration file which will prevent this from
>> happening?
> 
> ViewVC exposes to the templates a flag that it calculates (prefer_markup)
> which effectively means, "ViewVC does/doesn't think this file's contents are
> viewable in a web browser".  If you wanted to, you could tweak your file.ezt
> template to check this flag and, if set, show only the log message for the
> file/revision and a notice saying that the file's contents are viewable,
> plus perhaps a link to the "download" URL for that file/rev.
> 
> Something like these edits to file.ezt (the plus signs indicate inserted lines:
> 
>    ...
>      [end]
>      </div>
> 
>    + [if-any prefer_markup]
> 
>      [define last_rev]0[end]
>      [define rowclass]vc_row_even[end]
>    ...
> 
> and:
> 
>    ...
>      [end]
>      [end]
> 
>    + [else]
>    + <p><strong>This file's contents are not viewable.  Please
>    +    <a href="[download_href]">download</a> this version of the
>    +    file in order to view it.</strong></p>
>    + [end]
> 
>      [include "include/props.ezt"]
>      [include "include/footer.ezt"]
> 

You know, enough people have asked this question in the past that I just
committed a solution for it to ViewVC's trunk, and backported it for release
in ViewVC 1.1.2.  Now, in the file.ezt, there's a small configuration
section in which admins can tweak a single definition value and get the
behavior I describe above.

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C. Michael Pilato <[email protected]>
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