Detecting Client dll's

Hi Everyone,

I am working on some integration projects and was wondering if there is a way to accomplish processing a web version of the profile's if I cannot detect the client dll's on the machine running my app. The point would be to allow the user to process a friendly, attractive...Interwoven based profile for the requested operation even if they do not have a worksite client installed. My app is server based so In the background I can have an IIS server running, but I cannot assume there is worksite web installed.

Any and all help is appreciated.

Thanks
MF

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STodd

Would it not be easier to check the registry..?

Every client installation has an INSTALLPATH / INSTALLROOT value set...

Migrateduser

The detection of the DLL's whether through the registry or other means is really not the goal. I see now that my subject line was misleading. What I am trying to accomplish is: I would like to get a hold of web (asp) based forms for the profiling and search functions of WorkSite...so I can use them in the event the local, thick-client DLL's are missing and the program tries to re-route through the main Middle-Tier of my app....where I am guaranteed to have the local dll's and IIS. This configuration means that as a fail safe, I could allow the user to function in my app as though they have Worksite even though really I am processing everything on the server via IIS and sending down the results and forms that are web based but still feature rich and have a familiar interface and functionality.

Does anyone know of the existance of forms such as these? I can be sure there is the local DLL's and IIS but I cannot rely on WorkSite WEb being available...therefore these forms must be able to run independently.

Thanks,
Mike

dabird

The search and profile forms in WorkSite Web are only available through the WorkSite Web client. The form definitions are stored in the resource page, which is created when the admin first logs in to WSW. Therefore, if you don't have WSW installed, you won't be able to access the forms.

In your second post, you state that you can't rely on WSW being 'available'. If WSW is installed and was connected to at least once by an admin (but not necessarily available), you could, in theory, locate the resource page in the DMS and extract the form definitions. Further, if an admin configured role-based forms through WSW, then you could even provide role-based forms to your users, rather than a generic form. Given that you are using WSW functionality, I suggest that you check with your Interwoven sales rep on what licenses you may need to accomplish this.