Most user friendly way to browse document libraries for saving documents

We are trying to figure out the most user friendly way to save office documents to different site collection document libraries. The locations appear fine when we click "save as" for recent folders. We can even click browse and use
the up arrow for getting closer to the root path of the site. This works fine, but there is not an easy way navigate to a different site collection. Sure, I can copy/paste the web address in the file path, but I think that is asking too much for
basic end users. Is there a different approach I am not aware of?
Thanks,

How about Link a library to the Windows Favorites Folder, the use favorite to save document.
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Hi,
Is there any customizing we can do in order to group the characteristics?
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I'd like my technically unversed users to have, on demand, the benefit of chown commands giving them ownership of certain files being executed on remote servers. I'd like this to be doable without administrators' involvement and with no physical access to the servers by any of the users being entailed.
By "benefit of chown commands" I mean the results a competent user would get entering the command if he or she were actually doing so. By "technically unversed" I mean specifically that said users aren't and won't ever be trained to ssh into subject servers and issue chown commands themselves directly.
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I'm guessing that something the user at his or her own machine does involving a file he or she has selected would constitute an Apple Event which a process on the client would send to a process on the server. Then I expect the server process would issue the chown command locally respectively of
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2) subject user's identity.
Finally, I expect some feedback might contingently be sent to client process incidentally to need to give user feedback.
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First, if I understand you correctly, I'd be using
Curl and, say, Perl rather than Applescript to get
this done. In other words, what you wrote in
Applescript is about all I'd need in that
language--yes?
That's correct, give or take any errors in the script. (For obvious reasons I didn't test it.)
Then, please note that I want to chown, not chmod. Is
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Nope. (Beyond what you pointed out below.)
I am looking at Perl documentation and read that "on
most systems, you are not allowed to change the
ownership of the file unless you're the superuser..."
(http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/chown.html).
However, isn't apache running as root?
I never thought about that. Wow, this is complicated! Are you really sure you can't make do with chmod instead?
Anyway, the answer is yes and no. The main Apache process usually runs as root, but executes CGI scripts (and other requests) as another user to avoid inherent insecurity. So unless you do something terribly, terribly insecure, you will not be able to chown from Perl. (And, although I am often lax about security, enabling root access for CGIs strikes even me as dangerous, which means it's a very bad idea.)
Really what you want is for the CGI, which does not run as root, to hand off to another process which does. I'm not a Unix guru, and would never claim to be, but I think the two following methods might work:
1. Set up a cron job running as root which looks in a directory once every minute/hour/whatever. The file name should be the user to change the owner to, and it should contain a delimited (in some form; return is possibly safe) list of files. Have the cron job walk through the list of files and use chown, then clobber the contents of the file. (Note that a CGI can use "chmod", which can make sure that the files it creates in the directory are readable by the cron job.) (Also note that you'll want to use flock to avoid race conditions between the cron job and the CGI!) This method would not be instantaneous, since the cron job only runs periodically.
2. Set up a script which runs as root which takes a line of text in the format:
user:path/to/file
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A. Whatever you do, make sure that the binary/script/whatever running as root can't be written to by anyone who doesn't have root permissions.
B. Make sure to check that the user and file actually exist before doing anything with them. (And make sure to do it in the root process, since you have no guarantee that someone won't figure out what's going on and come up with some clever injection scheme to make your root process break security.) (And don't do it by passing a command to the shell; use Perl's chown or some equivalent, so that you'll be somewhat less vulnerable.)
C. For that matter, don't forget to check and make sure that the path you're about to chown is within the share point, and that the user you're going to chown to makes sense in context, so that nobody can (for example) take over someone else's user directory, or get write permission to /sbin, or something evil like that. (In fact, it might be for the best if you limited the chown operations to files only, just to be sure.)
Also, I get the part about how a constraint involving
"do shell script" method argues against using pure
Applescript in this case. But just for my information
is Applescript otherwise sufficiently capable?
If it weren't such matter of getting everything on
one line, could Applescript send commands between
hosts, convert local paths to paths on servers, issue
change ownership commands, and handle authentication?
Do methods adequate to those purposes exist in
Applescript?
Or would using multiple scripting languages be
entailed anyway? I'm guessing the latter.
Yes and no. Helpful answer, right?
First and foremost: AppleScript was originally created as a language to control programs, which would have an extensible grammar through the installation of files called "Scripting Additions". It has since been puffed up via AppleScript Studio to an application-building language in its own right, but the language itself does not have support for a lot of things which, nevertheless, the language can do by controlling another program or by extension.
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I'd stick with a CGI and the cron/named pipe scheme. No matter what you do you're going to have a little extra security risk, just because chown requires root permissions, but minimizing that risk is probably a good thing.

The most performance friendly way to do this ?

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