Sorry about blank reply!! Ack, itchy fingers!
Strange, check that there are no other Response Redirects or Url links as
part of this control. Also, maybe try clearing the Response object before
adding the new header and writing the file.
In general whenever I find I need to force the use to do a save as (as
below) I usually provide two buttons, one for save, one for open. The save
forces the dialog and the open just does a response.redirect. That way they
never have the need to click the Save button and then try and open it.
"john" <jc*******@dashgroup.com> wrote in message
news:0c****************************@phx.gbl...
Thanks, this seems to work. One small problem, when you
clict 'Open' it repeats the dialog and you need to click
Open a second time. But, much better than before.
-----Original Message-----
It is a tricky problem, most browsers try to do whatever
they can dependingon the type of file.
However, it is possible to override the headers of the
output to convincethe browser that it should try and do something else with
it.
Instead of just a hyperlink url, generate a control
(button / imagebuttonetc) with an event / postback
Then within the server side code (OnClick) use the
following with theResponse object.
Response.AppendHeader( "content-disposition", "attachment;
filename=MyReport.csv");
Response.WriteFile(Server.MapPath
("MyReport.csv")); Response.End();
Regards,
Robin
"John" <jc*******@dashgroup.com> wrote in message
news:01****************************@phx.gbl... Hi,
I generate a report in a comma delimited file and give it a name like MyReport.csv . I then set a Hyperlink
control to point tp the file
HyperLink1.text = "Download"
Hyperlink1.NavigateUrl = "MyReport.csv"
When the user clicks the HyperLink I would always like to see the dialog come up that asks if you want to 'Open' the file or 'Save' the file to disk.
I get mixed results. If the client has Excel installed
then this dialog does not come up and IE pops the file
into a spread sheet. If Excel is not installed then IE
pops the file up in a text window (same thing happens if I delete the csv from the folder options).
If I change the file extension to something strange
like .xyz123 then it always comes up with the dialog but I want the user to have the option to save the file as
csv.
Anyway, is there some way to force this to always come up with the Open or Save dialog?
Tks,
JOhn
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