Issue with "Custom web view in File Dialog Box" in Office 2013

Hi,

I have a custom “web view for file dialog” that used to work in Office 2010 and no longer works in the 2013 version.

By “web view for file dialog box” I mean the feature described here:

-          http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms947923.aspx

-          http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/hh967656(v=office.14).aspx

The issue is that, in Office 2013, it is only possible to navigate to a sub-path of the current location and not to other paths. Below is an example:

1. The user opens Microsoft Word, hits CTRL+S and enters “ http://myportal/firstlib” in the Save File Dialog;
2. A custom web view is displayed containing the following “links”:
3. <tr id=’http://myportal/firstlib/folder1’ fileattribute=’folder’ …>…</tr>
4. <tr id=’http://myportal/secondlib/folder1’ fileattribute=’folder’ …>…</tr>
5. <tr id=’http://myportal/secondlib’ fileattribute=’folder’ …>…</tr>
6. The user clicks the first link. He gets properly redirected to  http://myportal/firstlib/folder1 ;
7. Clicking the other two links doesn’t work properly. Instead of navigating to the link URLs, the file gets saved in the currently displayed location (i.e.,  http://myportal/firstlib )

As mentioned above, all links work properly in Office 2010 (Word, Excel).

I have checked this with the custom view implemented in both SP2010 (SP2) and SP2013 (SP2), so the issue seems to be on the client-side (Microsoft Office).

Would anybody know if this is a bug or a “feature”?

Or else, how could I implement navigation inside an Office Open/Save dialog. I’ve tried using “javascript:window.navigate(…)”,  “javascript:location.href=…” and “<a target=”_self” href=’…’>…</a>”, but they cause a new IE window to pop up and the current location in the Open/Save dialog remains the same.

The issue can be reproduced by editing the file “[14 or 15 hive]\TEMPLATE\FEATURES\DocumentLibrary\DocLib\FileDlg.htm”, replacing the <ows:View Name="FileDialog"/> tag with the following hard-coded table (make sure to replace the URL in there):

<table id="FileDialogViewTable" style="cursor: default" cellpadding="2" width="100%" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr fileattribute="folder" id=”http://myportal/secondlib" onmousedown="selectrow()" onclick="selectrow()"><td valign="top">Documents</td></tr></table>