Writing file from JavaScript

Windows TS 6.1.0 build 6.1.0

I'm trying to use an ActiveX control within JavaScript running in a CGI window launched from TeamSite. I want to write text to a file on the TeamSite server.

I get the following error: "Automation server can't create object."

Is this error related to a browser setting, a server-side setting, or a limitation of the TeamSite CGI?

If this kind of thing can't be done on a TeamSite server, any other ideas on how to write a file from a JavaScript function? (Would a jsp help?)

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ISCBorisB

Is this error related to a browser setting, a server-side setting, or a limitation of the TeamSite CGI?

It's IE Settings. To fix it, you can either set your TS Site as "Trusted" (this is much safer) or modify the level that the
site is in. Tools-> Internet Options-> Security-> Pick Zone-> Custom Level-> Prompt or Enable "Run ActiveX controls and plug-ins"

msrich

Thanks much for the quick response. Sounds good; I'll try it.

However, if I can't get the security adjusted for all clients in all contexts, I might have to come up with something other than ActiveX. Would a JSP, servlet, or bean be a reasonable alternative?

Here's some context on the problem: I'm launching a CGI window (PERL that writes an HTML, with embedded JavaScript) that includes an XML in an iframe. The XML (displayed with an XSL) refers to a .jsp that gets called when the XML form is submitted. When I try a submit, the iframe refreshes and just displays the text of the .jsp. I don't have any evidence that the code in the .jsp ran.

Any further ideas on this appreciated.

ISCBorisB

Here's some context on the problem: I'm launching a CGI window (PERL that writes an HTML, with embedded
JavaScript) that includes an XML in an iframe. The XML (displayed with an XSL) refers to a .jsp that gets called when
the XML form is submitted. When I try a submit, the iframe refreshes and just displays the text of the .jsp. I don't
have any evidence that the code in the .jsp ran

This is not "some context of the problem", rather it's your solution to some problem we know next to nothing about.

In the first post you've mentioned that "I want to write text to a file on the TeamSite server."
To do that you run CGI script that generates iFrame that displays XML/XSL that either a)Runs ActiveX or
b)submits the Form to some JSP. What does ActiveX/JSP do in this house that Jack built? Why can't you
"write text to the File" from your CGI Script?

Forget for a moment about "How" you do something. Explain "What" you are trying to do, perhaps we can be
of better help. Btw, jsp source in your frame is pretty solid indication that it has not been run but rendered as text instead

msrich

At the risk of saying too much (again), I'm trying to let a user view a small section of a large XML file and specify updates to element values. I want to do two things with any specified updates: (1) apply them to the XML; (2) save them off so that I can reapply them later to an externally-refreshed copy of the XML.