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[K-Schaedel]

When I open and edit an Excel file with Vuforia View, the file is not saved to the same location.

The temporarily downloaded file is saved locally.

[RolandRaytchev]

Hello @K-Schaedel,

hwo did you open the excel file? Which Vuforia Studio widget did you use? Or did you used javaScript? Or which functionality you did use in this case?  

[K-Schaedel]

Hello @RolandRaytchev 

I used the widget file and specified the file path.

[RolandRaytchev]

thanks for the feedback. Yes could reproduce this behavior. 

So when we test it on chrome in preview mode it will only upload the file (used a file from the app/resources/Uploaded/ folder)   to the default upload folder. 

- so, I think in mobile (I tested with Android Samsung S9+) it will load temporary and will ask the first time for the application what you want to open this file. I think that the second application (in this case excel) will not really have access  to the folder where the excel file is coming.

When  I search on my mobile device - connected to PC I will find the temporary copy in folder

Galaxy S9+\Phone\Documents\Vuforia View\Download

But so far, I see the Excel app has not access to this folder when we try to save the file.

Therefore it will ask for another folder

[K-Schaedel]

I use the Microsoft Surface Pro.
There is always a download from Google Chrome to the download folder.
But I don't want him to download the file, I want him to open it via the file path.
Is there a way to do this?

[RolandRaytchev · Accepted solution]

Hi @K-Schaedel,

unfortunately I do not have currently a Microsoft Surface device . So I tested it further on Dell Windows 10 and on Android

When on android I opened one time with Excel and I have an Excel app on the device it opened always after downloading the file in the Excel app

On windows when I clicked the link (file widget)  it did only downloads the file to the download default location. But when I first select the downloaded file and  select the option always open this file:

So, this will open then always the excel file when excel is already installed on the device

But when I try to save the file it will try to save it to the location where excel did open it - mean the download folder. It will never have a reference to the Vuforia view folder e.g.  app/resources/Uploaded/ts-test.xlsx

For example, you can check the reference on the file click event

$scope.testlink= function()
{
var file_folder= $scope.view.wdg['file-1']['url'] ;
//... do some action with this file_folder
}

But there is no trivial API there to notify excel to use this path (it is relative and required to know the location of the app folder)