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Indexing Office 2007 files on Alfresco 2.1CE

nicof — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:23:48 GMT

Hi everybody,I have installed OpenOffice.org 3.0 on our Centos 5 server, presuming, Alfresco could index MS Office 2007 files afterwards. Well, it doesn't work as is, so I would really appreciate any help.How do I have to configurate Alfresco to recognize Office 2007 files and to index them?Kind reg

Re: Indexing Office 2007 files on Alfresco 2.1CE

gluck113 — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:10:23 GMT

Hi
What does your log file tell you?
If it's something like this :

10:13:23,544 ERROR [org.alfresco.util.exec.RuntimeExecBootstrapBean] Bootstrap command failed:
Execution result:
   os:         Linux
   command:    "/$ALF_HOME/program/soffice" "-accept=socket,host=localhost,port=8100;urp;StarOffice.ServiceManager" "-env:UserInstallation=file:////$ALF_HOME" -nologo -headless -nofirststartwizard -nocrashrep -norestore
   succeeded: false
   exit code: 2
   out:
   err:        Cannot run program ""/$ALF_HOME/program/soffice"": java.io.IOException: error=2, No such file or directory
10:13:25,710 INFO [org.alfresco.repo.admin.ConfigurationChecker] The Alfresco root data directory ('dir.root') is: /$ALF_HOME/alf_data

I have the same problem. Even after following these instructions :http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=14304&p=47244&hilit=openoffice+location#p47244

Maybe something to do with the openoffice version? Because I can't find any start_oo.sh like it indicates in the wiki http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Setting_up_OpenOffice_for_Alfresco.

Any help would be greatfull

Re: Indexing Office 2007 files on Alfresco 2.1CE

nicof — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:20:43 GMT

I have no problems with OpenOffice, it works as intended for all files but the new office files.
Obviously, Alfresco does not know what to do with .docx etc., and I would like to know, how to teach it. ;ö)

Your error message indicaters, that your OpenOffice ist not situated under /$ALF_HOME/program/soffice. Presumed, you have installed OpenOffice, try the following:


cd /
find -name "soffice"‍‍‍

Replace /$ALF_HOME/program/ with the path to the result into your alfresco.sh or wherever your OOo is started and it should work.

Kind regards

Re: Indexing Office 2007 files on Alfresco 2.1CE

gluck113 — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:52:06 GMT

Well your luckier than me
In the lab 3 it has the office2007 MIME type integrated (I don't know if it really works). I think you would need to add a MIME type to your Alfresco : http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Adding_a_Mime_Type for the office2007.

I still have the same error, even if I changed the path in the alfresco.sh to where my soffice directory is. I even made links into a /program/ directory I created.
It must be somewhere else but don't know I'm quite new!