Document Management with MS Office Apps and ASP.net

[Robert Martinez]

I'm trying to figure out how to implement this:

I have a document management system set up in ASP.net, and it works fine.
However, the user is required to log onto the system and add documents to
the system. It's an added step, as for example, they have to create a
document in MS Word, save it, then load up the document management
application and upload the document into the system (the app uses MS Index
Server to index a particular network directory where the documents are
stored for the doc. mgmt. app.).

How can I add functionality to MS Office Apps (mainly Word and Excel, but
also non-MS apps like Adobe PDF documents, or regular txt files) so that not
only does the user have the "Save" option under file, but adding a "Save in
Document Management App" (or whatever), which would then either a) load up
the document management app and bring user directly to file upload screen
where they can upload the file and type in document information, or b) add
it directly to the document management application directly creating a
minimal record (just file name and date added).

I imagine I have to create some Windows.NET application, but am clueless.

Any advice would be appreciated.

REM

[Peter O'Reilly]

Look for WebDAV under the IIS help docs.
HTH
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Peter O'Reilly

[Robert Martinez]

Great, thanks. That, I think, solves half my problem. The document
management app has a data entry form to capture things like subject, date,
author, group, file name, file type, source, category (and a sub-category),
links for related documents, etc.

I am not certain if I can do this to create a partially filled in data entry
form: can I access the files properties and pull out things like the file
name, file type, date and author? At least this way, the document is not
only in the WebDAV directory, but its data entry form is partially filled
in. Now, the more difficult question, how can I allow the user to access
this form immediately once they save a document? Are you familiar with
iManage or PCDocs? These are (obviously) windows applications, and they
inject extra commands into the "File" menu which, when clicked, open up the
data entry form for the user (when the create a New document). Can I do
that with ASP.net?

Thanks for the help.

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