How do you edit SharePoint documents from within Confluence?

Brian Louks

Using Confluence 3.5.13, SharePoint Connector 1.4.7, SharePoint 2010, what's the trick to actually being able to edit a SharePoint document from within Confluence? I tried specifying the columns in the sp-list macro, but specifying an "Edit" column just gave me a "-" that didn't do anything

Brian Louks

This might be out of scope for this forum (maybe it's a SharePiont issue), but when I click to open a document in SharePoint, I see:

• How would you like to open this file? (Read Only / Edit)
• If I select "Edit", it allows me to save it back to SharePoint

When I click to open the document through Confluence, I see:

• A prompt that says "What do you want to do with MyDocument.doc?" with the following options:
  • Open
    The file won't be saved automatically
  • Save
  • Save as
• If I click one of the "Save" options, it just saves it to my file system.
• If I click the "Open" option, it opens Read-Only.
  When I try to save the document, it does indeed try to save it back to SharePoint, however, it prompts me with a "Save-As" dialog, and does not let me overwrite the existing file

I've verified that the links are the same (whether I click through SharePoint to get the doucment, or through Confluence, it's the same underlying http link). So it's really just that when I click through the document on Confluence, it doesn't prompt me with that initial "How would you like to open this file?" prompt.