[Zope] Re: ExternalEditor plugin for MS Project?

Larry J. C. Prikockis larry_prikockis at natureserve.org
Mon Sep 29 10:34:03 EDT 2003


On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 15:14:20 -0700, Andy McKay wrote:

> Larry J. C. Prikockis wrote:
>> I'm wondering if anyone's hacked together an External Editor plugin for
>> Microsoft Project... From looking at the code for the Word, Excel, etc.
>> plugins, it doesn't seem to be too complex.  
>> 
>> However- my knowledge of MSOffice COM scripting is even more tenuous than
>> my knowledge of Python.  As near as I can tell, Project seem to be a bit
>> more of a unique beast than Word/Excel/Powerpoint.
> 
> You dont need to do a "plugin". Just upload a project file with the MS 
> project extension. Clicking on it should load it in MS Project... after 
> that who knows...

by George!  you're right!! For some reason, the first time I tried this, I
got an error message.  Perhaps I had the path to the ms project executable
wrong.  Anyway-- now my most demanding user will have to find a new reason
to gripe about Zope :-)  thanks.

Larry

(who prefers to gripe about MS Project... ugh!)




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