CreateEditDocumentURL API

Creates a time-limited WebDAV URL for directly opening and editing a specific document in a WebDAV-enabled application such as Microsoft Office. The returned URL points to the document file and can be passed to Office applications to open it for in-place editing via WebDAV.

Endpoint

/srv.asmx/CreateEditDocumentURL

Methods

GET /srv.asmx/CreateEditDocumentURL?authenticationTicket=...&DocumentPath=...
POST /srv.asmx/CreateEditDocumentURL (form data)
SOAP Action: http://tempuri.org/CreateEditDocumentURL

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
`authenticationTicket`	string	Yes	Authentication ticket obtained from `AuthenticateUser`.
`DocumentPath`	string	Yes	Full infoRouter path of the document to edit (e.g. `/MyLibrary/Reports/Budget.xlsx`). The document must exist and be of a WebDAV-editable type (e.g. Office documents).

Response

Success Response

<response success="true">
  <Value>/dav/sid-3f2504e0-4f89-11d3-9a0c-0305e82c3301/MyLibrary/Reports/Budget.xlsx</Value>
</response>

Element / Attribute	Description
`success`	`true` if the URL was generated successfully.
`Value`	The WebDAV path to the document. Prepend the server base URL (e.g. `https://yourserver`) to form the full URL to pass to a WebDAV client or Office application.

Error Response

<response success="false" error="Error message" />

Required Permissions

Any authenticated non-anonymous user may call this API. The document at DocumentPath must be accessible to the user (Read permission is sufficient to generate the URL).

Example

GET Request

GET /srv.asmx/CreateEditDocumentURL
  ?authenticationTicket=3f2504e0-4f89-11d3-9a0c-0305e82c3301
  &DocumentPath=/MyLibrary/Reports/Budget.xlsx
HTTP/1.1

POST Request

POST /srv.asmx/CreateEditDocumentURL HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

authenticationTicket=3f2504e0-4f89-11d3-9a0c-0305e82c3301
&DocumentPath=/MyLibrary/Reports/Budget.xlsx

SOAP Request

<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
               xmlns:tns="http://tempuri.org/">
  <soap:Body>
    <tns:CreateEditDocumentURL>
      <tns:authenticationTicket>3f2504e0-4f89-11d3-9a0c-0305e82c3301</tns:authenticationTicket>
      <tns:DocumentPath>/MyLibrary/Reports/Budget.xlsx</tns:DocumentPath>
    </tns:CreateEditDocumentURL>
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

Using the returned URL

Prepend your server's base URL to form the complete WebDAV address:

https://yourserver/dav/sid-3f2504e0-4f89-11d3-9a0c-0305e82c3301/MyLibrary/Reports/Budget.xlsx

Pass this full URL to an Office application (e.g. via ShellExecute on Windows, or the Office URI scheme ms-word:ofe|u|<url>) to open the document for direct editing.

Notes

The returned Value is a document-specific WebDAV path. It points directly to the file and is intended for single-document edit sessions. To mount the entire infoRouter file system as a drive, use CreateDiskMountURL instead.
Each call creates a new dedicated OfficeEdit DAV session ticket for the current user. This session is separate from the user's main authentication ticket.
If the full WebDAV URL would exceed 215 characters (combined server base URL and encoded document path), the server automatically uses a short path format instead: /dav/sid-{ticket}/~D{documentId}.{extension}.
The session ticket embedded in the URL has a limited lifetime. Generate the URL immediately before opening the document; do not cache and reuse it later.
The document does not need to be checked out before calling this API. The WebDAV client is responsible for checkout/check-in via the DAV protocol during the edit session.

CreateDiskMountURL - Create a root-level WebDAV mount URL for the entire infoRouter file system
GetDocument - Retrieve properties and metadata of a document
GetDownloadInfo - Get download URL and metadata for a document

Error Codes

Error	Description
`[900] Authentication failed`	Invalid or missing authentication ticket.
`[901] Session expired or Invalid ticket`	The ticket has expired or does not exist.
`Document not found`	The `DocumentPath` does not refer to an existing document.

For detailed documentation visit: https://support.inforouter.com/api-docs/CreateEditDocumentURL