To Barry (was: RE: Publish 400+ Excel Spreadsheets?)

[SIANNON -at- VISUS -dot- JNJ -dot- com]

Apologies to the list, but every time I try to send email to Barry 
off-list, it claims he doesn't exist.

(If you use an alias, Barry, I think my server is choking on a missing 
setting on your end...I forget the name of it, MX-something-or-other, I 
think. On the flip side, your mailer daemon is amusingly polite: "Hi. This 
is the qmail-send program at aux153.plano.net. I'm afraid I wasn't able to 
deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; 
I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.")

------My original response re-forwarded:-------------------------
Ah, there is a desire to print the entire set at once?  Hmmm.  Given the 
volume of pages, it would take time for them to print, regardless of 
mechanism, so I assume such an action would not be performed lightly.  
Perhaps a script (VB?) tied to a button on the HTML page could perform a 
print file on all filenames linked to the page? That way, the person can 
also print only selected files if they need to (by printing from within the 
individual files).
 
The privileges will more likely be on the individual Excel "source" files 
-- the user of the web interface should have access to all the docs, 
through whatever means they would have access without the interface.
 
So, if I understand your requirements correctly, This is a summary of what 
you are designing:
-- It is a sort of "manager's interface", from which an authorized user can 
view the current version of individual ("source") docs, edit those docs if 
necessary, and print them individually or collectively, at his or her 
discretion.
-- Individual users will continue to edit/update the individual source docs 
directly, using Excel.
-- If access to the "manager's interface" needs to be restricted, that can 
be done by either placing the HTML file in a protected location (e.g., 
limited-access drive or folder), or somehow password-protecting the file 
(probably overkill, unless the HTML file is hooked into the company's 
intranet).
-- If access to individual source docs needs to be restricted, it can be 
done on a file-by-file basis, through wither drive permissions or either 
write-protection or password-protection within the Excel file itself.
 
Sounds like an interesting project!  Good luck!  :)
Shauna

-----Original Message-----
From: Barry Thistlethwaite [mailto:bthis -at- enotify -dot- com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 12:32 
To: Iannone, Shauna K. [VIS-Non J&J]
Subject: Re: Publish 400+ Excel Spreadsheets?


Thank you, Shauna! 

That makes sense for displaying individual sheets, but how would it allow 
printing of the entire set? And when you refer to privileges, do the 
privileges in Excel determine the access level in the HTML display?

Thank you for taking the time to respond. I love this e-List! 

  --Barry 

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