[mtorbin]

Hey all,

Ok, so here's the problem. On our current Intranet, we have a link where a user can download a document. The document is currently in PDF format. However, the users would prefer to use XLS format. The problem with this is if the user does not do a right-click "save as" then the document tries to open (assuming they do a double-click) and this causes the network to take a dive.

Is there some sort of code that I can write that will either:

1) Create a button that when clicked/double-clicked/whatever will open
the "save link as..." dialog box.

2) Keep users from ever being able to double click/triple click/whatever
on the link causing this issue to occur?

Basically, how do I solve this problem?

- MT

[TwoD]

Don't know how to solve your first problem but there's a way to prevent users from clicking more than once on a link.

Instead of directly linking to the file you could make the link call a JS function and have it check if the link has been clicked before (The function sets a variable to true when started and resets it again after some time using setTimeOut). If not, then change the documents location to the link.