Corey Roth [MVP]

Hi Corey,

I have just tried this solution and it does work however, if you have a managed document library with versioning enabled and the checkout/check in options it bypasses this allowing you to edit the document without the version number changing?

Maybe I am doing something wrong but this is how it appeared on my first attempt.

I just did a few tests and it did update the version number for me.  I tried it with having major versioning enabled.  I also tried it with and without checkins required.  I was testing a Word 2007 document in this case.  What kind of document were you trying it with?  Thanks.

Hi Corey,

I implemented your code, but unfortunately the document opens exactly the same without the Edit/Read option.  

In my code there is a <xl:choose> tag right after the close of the Title span; is this correct?

-GrandmasterPhil

After I posted I realized, I was not clear enough on the location it needs to go in.  There are actually two srch-Title spans.  The first one is used when there are no search results.  Put it after the second one.  Thanks.

Hi Corey,

But i can only found one srch-Title span. So where is the correct location to add in that bit of code?

Thank you!

Sorry, I was thinking of the srch-Description span.  Yes, there is only one srch-Title tag.  I usually put my link between the span and the xsl:choose that you mentioned.  

Also keep in mind the code I am adding adds a link to edit the document it doesn't change the default action of clicking on the title of the document.  If you want that action, you could add the onclick event from the code provided above on that link.

Hi Corey,

Thanks for that, so far all working good with office 2007.

but is your code work with Office 2003? Because in our organisation some of the machine still using office 2003 and It seems not not working well with it. It doesn't give you the read only or Edit option when you click on 'edit document'.

Thanks!

That is a good point.  I think the script for working with Office 2003 is a bit different.  I'll need to look around and see if I can find a machine to try it on.  Everything I have access to has been upgraded.

I visited a customer which wanted the option to directly open a document from the search results for

Hi Corey

Just what I needed, however, did you manage to find the code for Offfice 2003?

Cheers

Keith, someone provided me some JavaScript for that, but I can't seem to find it right now.  I'll keep looking.

Hi all,

I added the code:

<div class="srch-Description">

       <a href="{$url}" onclick="return DispEx(this,event,'TRUE','FALSE','FALSE','SharePoint.OpenDocuments.3','0

','SharePoint.OpenDocuments','','','','1','0','0','0x7fffffffffffffff')">Edit Document</a>

   </div>

to my results.aspx. The "Edit Document" link became visible, but when I clicked the "Edit Document" exactly the same happened as before.

What do I have to do with the "CoreResultsWebPart".

Thanks in advance.

Greetings,

John

John,

What version of Office are you using?  I've discovered that snippet only works with 2007.

Thanks,

Corey

Hi Corey,

I use MS office 2007. The extension of the most files on the SP server are doc file. This weekend I uploaded some docx files and started a full crawl. Unfortunately it didn’t work. I see a popup which asked to save or open the file. I only added the code you provided to the “core results” webpart, which displayed the edit text in the search results.

Any other ideas?

Thanks in advance

Greetings,

John

Hmmm, that is interesting.  The JavaScript there is effectively just the same JavaScript that is used in the context menu when you edit a document in a document library (which I assume works fine for you).  Let me dig a little and see if I can find anything else.

Dear All,

I really appriciate the effort of CoreyRoth. I face same problem as you all. I made little chnage in the script and it is now working on version office 2007 as wel as on version office 2003.

<div class="srch-Description">

<a onclick="return DispEx(this,event,'TRUE','FALSE','FALSE','','0','SharePoint.OpenDocuments','','1','','1','0','0','0x7fffffffffffffff')" onfocus="OnLink(this)" href="{$url}">Edit Document</a>

   </div>

@Somesh.  Thanks for the update on the script to work in Office 2003;

This works great for documents but for other items in search results like site or apge is also opening edit mode. Is there way to avoid edit option for site and pages in search results

@Sunny Sure.  You can add a check to verify that the file is a document, just put your link inside an xsl:if like this.

<xsl:if test='isdocument = 1'>

</xsl:if>

That is the syntax for SharePoint 2007.  If you are using SharePoint 2010, you would use:

<xsl:if test="isdocument = 'True'">

</xsl:if>

This is great. Thanks.

I can not beleive Microsoft haven't fixed this in SharePoint 2010.

Can someone post a version of this for SharePoint 2010.  It will be greatly appreciated.

@David Have you tried it with 2010 yet?  I'm not sure how much the JavaScript has changed or not so I am curious.  If it doesn't work, I'll start seeing if I can find a solution.

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Tried this code (with the xsl document test) on Sharepoint 2010 and works nice! Thanks!

@Petr Excellent!  Glad to know it works on 2010 as well.  Thanks for trying it out.

Hi Corey,

your solution worked for me but I have a machine in the Farm in which it doesn't work.

I noticed that also when I try to edit a document from document Library it doesn't work. The window ReadOnly/Edit mode doesn't appear, SP opens the doc in read-only mode.

Any Idea?

Thanks for your support

Can an argument to the javascript be changed so that the document opens up without the dialog asking "Read-only" or "Edit"?

@Geoff I think it's possible but I think it depends on your version of SharePoint and Office to make it actually happen.  I'd have to dig more into it.

"i'm trying to use this and it is launching a dialog "What do you want to do with xxx.docx" with options Open (this file won't be saved automatically), Save or Save as.  Is this a problem with IE9 or Sharepoint 2010?  I can't get the edit dialog to come up.  When you click open on the dialog i mentioned above it opens the doc read only which is no good....

you can ignore my previous comment, here is my revised working version, filtering out pdfs (which you can't edit anyways) and files that reside on the file share (start with servername rather than http) our search crawls file share and sharepoint, the edit link doesn't work for file share type files

<xsl:if test="not(contains($url,'.pdf'))">

<xsl:if test="contains($url,'http')">

<xsl:if test="isdocument = 'True'">

<div class="srch-Description">

       <a href="{$url}" onclick="return DispEx(this,event,'TRUE','FALSE','FALSE','SharePoint.OpenDocuments.3','0','SharePoint.OpenDocuments','','','','3','0','0','0x7fffffffffffffff','','')">Edit Document</a>

   </div>

</xsl:if>

</xsl:if>

</xsl:if>

if the current user has permission on document item level then only i have to open document in edit mode..or edit link should be visible..then what should do...plz guide...

Hello Corey, It's great solution, but I want this funtionallity with "Check User Permission".

Means, If current logged in user has Edit permission on that perticular document then only "Edit Document" link appear. Other wise not.

Thanks in advance

@Keyur I would push back on that requirement as it will not easily be achieved.  In order to accomplish that, you would have to make a call to the API for every result returned and see if the user has edit permission or not.  This would be hard to implement, require heavy use of the client API and would not likely perform well.

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Is there a description of the DispEx parameters?

@Markus I don't know that there is.  I discovered the use of it simply by inspecting a page.

Hi,

Can yuou please tell me where do I find the results.aspx page? I';m using sharepoint designer 2010 (and sharepoint 2010) and simply can not find the page to edit.

@PaulJones you will find the results.aspx page in your search center.  If you do not have a search center yet you can create one from the new site menu.

Is there a similar solution for adding a "View Properties" or Edit Properties" link in the search results?

Can you tell me what we would need to adjust within the  - return DispEx(event.srcElement,event,'TRUE','FALSE','FALSE','SharePoint.OpenDocuments.3','0','SharePoint.OpenDocuments','','','','1','0','0','0x7fffffffffffffff'); to open in Multi-edit Mode and not to lock others out of the file

@Greg.  Yes see this link.  www.dotnetmafia.com/.../introducing-document-link-handler-for-moss-2007-enterprise-search.aspx

@Tina I'm not sure off hand.  If I figure it out, I'll post here.

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Is there a similar solution for adding a "Check In "and "Check Out " link in the search results?

@subbu Not that I know of.  One could possible be developed.

Is it possible to hide Edit link for users that only have read permissions for document? It's confusing if they click on Edit but it opens as Read Only because of security.

@Vlad good question.  That would require a heap of code to make work and it wouldn't be very efficient since you would have to write something to check if the user has permissions or not for each result.

Corey, I am unable to edit the web part as the XSL editor is grayed out.    Where via SP2010 Designer would I add your snippet?

I am not a developer (an infrastructure guy) who has to dabble in SP.... many thanks.

@Michael be sure and uncheck use location visualization first.

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