Storing Attachments in R/3

Hello,
I am using the following blog to store Attachments in R/3 :
/people/raja.thangamani/blog/2007/06/27/organize-your-business-attachments-from-web
and able to store/retrieve Attachments on Portal. But when i try to open a document of type .doc or .xls in Portal it opens in a new window and then closes automatically in one second. The same document when i open in R/3 Transaction OAOR it works fine.
Although when I open a document of type PDF in Portal or R/3 it works fine. What can cause this.
Any help would be highly appreciated.
Regards,
Anil

Hi
change the code : WDFileDownloadBehaviour.OPEN_INPLACE.ordinal()); to WDWebResourceType.PDF or WDWebResourceType.DOC (select the appropriate form given options)
See the point number 10 . in the same document .
Best Regards
Satish Kumar

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