Download data to Excel from Matlab Web App Server

We have a server virtual machine that is hosting the APP, and several users(clients) would access the web app from their laptops. We would like to download data to Excel from the App and open the Excel file such that it hangs on user's screen (this way users can directly see the data in the workbook without needing to access the folder and manually open the file)

I have two questions in this process:

1. We are currently saving the file into a local drive (C drive) on VM and give all users permission to that drive. I'm wondering is it possible to save the file to a shared drive (say an S drive) that both the VM and client have access to?

2. After saving the file, how can we make the App automatically open the Excel file? We tried the "winopen(filename)" function, but the file will not get opened on the client side with the following error message.

Answer 1

[Mario Malic]

Hey,

1. What stops you from doing this? https://uk.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/425165-how-can-i-send-a-file-via-web-application
2. This is a no-go. https://uk.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/1808000-using-winopen-with-a-wepapp?s_tid=answers_rc1-3_p3_MLT Maybe you can figure something out from here, but I don't think this is worth wasting the time https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31472397/open-excel-file-through-normal-html-link