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BadBlue Word Sharing - Frequently Asked Questions
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New! Starting with BadBlue 1.7,
Word documents display in WYSIWYG (rich text) format with
images, tables and full formatting supported.
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How do I get started?
It's easy to share your Office files.
First thing you'll need to do is to determine what to share.
From the Manage tab, click on
Setup search tab. This will let you select files
or even entire folders that can be searched by other users.
Later on, if you wish, you can even
password protect shared areas and
enforce other security rules to protect
your data from unauthorized access.
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Select files or folders to share
Press the browse button to select a file to share. Even if you want to share an entire folder,
select a single file, click OK on the file box and then check the
Share all files in this folder checkbox. Then press the
Share! button. Do this as many times as you need for the
different files or folders you need to share.
When you're done
setting up files and folders for sharing, just
click on Home (upper lefthand corner) and you're
ready to do a search.
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Search & review results
From the Search tab, enter your search terms. You can use a file extension
(e.g., doc) if you wish. When you find
a useful result, click the file name to download it. Or, to simply
display the Word document in HTML format automatically, click on
the Live View link next to the file name.
The Word file will be rendered into HTML "on the fly" (see inset)
along with images, tables and full formatting.
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Setting up the Folders tab
You can also set up the Folders tab to allow live views of Office data.
From the Manage tab, click Setup folders tab. Name
the folder, select a file in the folder you'd like to share, then click the
Add virtual directory button.
The folder will now appear in the Folders
tab and any Office documents can be "live viewed".
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Let friends or colleagues surf to your PC
Now that you've set up BadBlue to share or publish files, you can
have your colleagues or friends surf to your PC and search for, display
and/or download the files to which you've given them access. See the
BadBlue General Use FAQ for more detailed
instructions about having others surf/browse to your PC.
While remote users can see your main menu, they are only able to
search for the files you've specified.
Your administrative menu options can only be
controlled by you, from your PC.
If you want to password protect your files or otherwise secure
access to your PC, please read the BadBlue Security
FAQ.
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What other file formats are supported?
BadBlue can instantly publish and transcode Access
and Excel files into HTML live.
How can other users browse directly to my PC to search it?
See the BadBlue General Use FAQ which
describes how to find your IP address or set up a domain name
so that other users can surf directly to your PC, search it and
download or display files.
Why are there asterisks all over my document when it's displayed?
BadBlue PE supports only a limited preview of live Word documents.
You'll need to upgrade to BadBlue Enterprise Edition
to get full Word, Excel and Access sharing capabilities.
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Can I prevent Word documents from being downloaded and allow them only to be viewed?
Yes. From the BadBlue main menu, use the Setup search tab menu
and scroll to the bottom of the page. Change the
Live View Only setting to Yes and then press the
Update button. Once you exit and restart BadBlue,
authorized users searching your machine will only be allowed to
choose the Live View option; they will not be permitted
to download Office files directly.
Can I password protect my files?
Yes. See the FAQ on how to
password protect
your files.
Can I generate a 'permanent' link (URL) to the "live view" of my document?
Yes. To generate a permanent, static link (URL) to a live view of your document,
search for it normally and then click on the Live View option to
generate the normal, dynamic link. For example, a dynamic link that
results from a search and a live-view might read:
http://.../ext.dll?MfcISAPICommand=LoadPage&page=doc.htx&a0=/get/153/filename.doc&a1=...
To turn this link into a permanent URL,
you can replace the search index ("153", in the example above) with
the path number ("path9", in the example below).
The path-number can be determined by reading the EXT.INI file.
http://.../ext.dll?MfcISAPICommand=LoadPage&page=doc.htx&a0=/get/path9/filename.doc&a1=...
Using the path-number instead of a search index will generate a completely
static link that will never change unless you change the EXT.INI file.
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What does the Word display look like in a browser?
Note: starting with BadBlue 1.7,
Word documents display in WYSIWYG (rich text) format with
images, tables and full formatting supported.
Does the free BadBlue Personal Edition support Word publishing/transcoding?
Yes, BadBlue PE supports limited previews of Word document data over the web.
And BadBlue Enterprise Edition
supports unlimited viewing of documents and other Office files.
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