The secret to using the common dialog from VBScript (or VBA or JScript, for that matter) is that you have to have its license installed on your machine. Certain development tools, such as Visual Basic 6, will install the license, but it’s also installed by the free Microsoft HTML Help Editor (this is a pretty … Read more
When they click a button to download the file, you can add the HTML5 attribute download where you can set the default filename. That’s what I did, when I created a xlsx file and the browser want to save it as zip file. <a href=”https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3102226/path/to/file” download=”renamed.txt”>Download</a> <a href=”downloads/export.xlsx” download=”Data-Export.xlsx”>Download Export</a>
In case anyone is still wondering… I did it like this: <a href=”data:application/xml;charset=utf-8,your code here” download=”filename.html”>Save</a> can’t remember my source but it uses the following techniques\features: html5 download attribute data URI’s Found the reference: http://paxcel.net/blog/savedownload-file-using-html5-javascript-the-download-attribute-2/ EDIT: As you can gather from the comments, this does NOT work in Internet Explorer (however works in Edge v13 … Read more