Opening your Editor

Perhaps the primary function of Enfold Desktop is to let you upload multiple files (i.e. .doc, .pdf, .mp3 ) at the same time and to change their workflow state easily.

But Enfold Desktop makes it easier to add/edit html files inside one of your Plone folders. It also lets you drop existing .txt or .html files into a Plone folder and -- voila! -- have them appear as web pages when published.

When your Plone site is set up to support Enfold Desktop, a link will usually be created at the bottom of the page. It will say View in Enfold Desktop (or whatever your site administrator configures it to say). If everything is set up correctly, when you click this link, the following things will happen:

1. You will briefly see a free-floating bubble indicating that Enfold Desktop is starting.
2. You will be prompted for user name and password. (If you have not previously set up a session for this website, one will be created for you using this login information).
3. An application will open for editing this document.

There are two different ways in which you would use Enfold Desktop to edit documents. This will be explained below. But before doing this, let's first make sure that your Windows machine knows which application that Enfold Desktop should use for editing.

Setting up your editor

When in File Explorer, Windows opens a file for editing or reading by examining its file extension. For example, if you double-click on a pdf file, the file association menu will determine which application will open (in most cases it will be Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat).

But what happens if you wish to edit a file ending in .html or .htm? What happens if you try to upload a file which doesn't have a file extension at all? Sometimes further steps will be involved (such as configuring the edit action associated with a file type). This is further complicated by the fact that Office 2007 sometimes sets itself as the default editing application for HTML documents.

With some items (such as Plone documents), double-clicking it will cause it to be viewed in the web browser. That is equivalent to the Open action and is not useful for editing.

Here are steps to make sure that HTML files (and by implication the Plone document type) open up inside the correct editing application. You may have to perform one or more of these steps in order to get your file associations to work correctly.