File associations within ITS / WAS ... jpg, gif, etc.

[Former Member]

Hello ... I'm finding is that when you click on a jpg attachment in the portal, it does NOT use the local windows file associations to determine what program to open the file with. However, once you select a program to open the file, the portal will continue to use that program, regardless of what the Windows defaults are. In this case I'm using a SAP GUI for HTML transaction Iview (QA33) in NW 2007s SP12 and IE 6.0. Although this is SAP GUI for HTML, it does fire off a Java applet when I display attachments (using classes Download.class and Execute.class among others). Where is this file association information stored? In the portal? Browser? JVM? Java stack? I know it is a client specific setting somewhere because different programs launch on different workstations. I'd like to be able to modify and/or set defaults for this association ... any help greatly appreciated!!

[former_member316351 · Accepted solution]

Hello Timothy,

I think you may be referring to the ITS download and file type association. Please see note 1058218 for more information about this and the execookie.txt file. Thanks.

Edgar

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

That is exactly what I was looking for ... thank you very much .. FYI, the note that you refer to also references note 554492 which gives more detail. Problem solved ... thanks again!!