Software to Open Attachment based on file extension

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How do you get Notes Client to recognize what software product to be called based on the file extension ?

How do you add more extensions and have them relate to a particular product ?

Thanks.

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Subject: Software to Open Attachment based on file extension

If you are exclusively on windows platforms for the client, you can do this with an API call to ShellExecuteA(). I’ve uploaded a sample on how to do this on my blog.

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Subject: Software to Open Attachment based on file extension

Thanks Jeremy… I was looking for an answer on how to get the Notes Client to recognize Excel 2007 files, when the user clicks the Open button on the Attachment box, which appears when you double click on an attachment.

Right now, we get a message that the attachment type is not known.

Is it a change in the Notes.ini file that’s needed ?

Tom.

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Subject: RE: Software to Open Attachment based on file extension

Tom,

When you use the “Open” function with a right click on a attachement, the application which will be used is the one which is registered in windows as the default application for this extension.

To know (and modify) which application is the default for a specified extension, open a Windows Explorer. Menu Tools->Folder options. The select the tab “File Types”.

When the registered files types list is displayed scroll down until you find the xls extension.

Select the xls extension, and use the button change to assign the application you want (excel in this case).

I’m not sure if you have to restart your notes client or not after this change to have it work.

I would say no but I’m not sure.

Hope this helps

Renaud

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Subject: RE: Software to Open Attachment based on file extension

Thanks Renaud , that’s perfect…

Tom