Hello,
I'm writing a web-based application for my company. In this application, I need to show various documents (including Excel spreadsheets and Word documents) in my browser. This works fine, but if someone has their computer set to opening the files directly in Excel (for example), and someone else is already reading them, they get a nasty error box that says something along the lines of "this document is already open by (user), do you want to open it write-protected, notified when the user closes it, or abort". Is it possible to force the application to open this document write-protected (they are not for editing, anyway) from the server side (which is done in PHP)? Or must each user select some "force write-protected" preference in Excel, Word, etc.?
Thanks for any help!
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