topic Re: How to edit online an office (OpenOffice/MS Office)? in Alfresco Archive

How to edit online an office (OpenOffice/MS Office)?

jlabuelo — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:15:59 GMT

Hi allWe are trying to edit content files stored in Alfresco, but we would like to be able to do it online, I mean we would like the user to be able to open the file (Open Office or MS Office) online, perform the changes and then save the file modified in the Alfresco ECM system.So far we have two q

Re: How to edit online an office (OpenOffice/MS Office)?

zaizi — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:48:46 GMT

Have you checked out Sharepoint Protocal in 3.0 http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Installing_Labs_3#Installing_SharePoint_Protocol_Support.

Does it satisfy your requirements?

Re: How to edit online an office (OpenOffice/MS Office)?

rogier_oudshoor — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 06:38:23 GMT

This is one of the major challenges currently in online collaboration. There are many options, but each has drawbacks:
1. Use ActiveX calls (IE) or Custom Extensions (Firefox) to force Office to open the webdav path (which will open directly) (but won't work with OpenOffice)
2. Use CIFS links (but CIFS isn't working 100% stable …)
3. Use Sharepoint protocol (but only works with Share …)
4. Use the OpenOffice & MSOffice plugins (but not 100% stable or functional …)

The problem really is a generic ECM problem. Even Sharepoint's implementation of the Sharepoint protocal isn't fully functional. If Alfresco once day can fully garantee both CIFS & Sharepoint protocals, that would be great.

Re: How to edit online an office (OpenOffice/MS Office)?

jlabuelo — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:59:52 GMT

Hi all I have tried to apply your instructions but still does not work for me. Let me explain you what I have done so far:

I have installed Sharepoint Protocol :

1) Installed the module vti-module.amp that is in the Alfresco Labs 3 in the folder "amps". To install it I used the apply_amps.bat that also comes with the Alfresco 3 installation. This created a new Alfreco.war and the old one got saved in a .bak file (alfresco.war-1234973702656.bak).

2) I downloaed the ROOT.war from http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Installing_Labs_3#SharePoint_Protocol_support and copied to

tomcat\webapps.

3) When I launch Alfresco and I log in the application as admin user using IE6 I try to open and edit an OpenOffice .odt file (which was previously set as online editable (link online Editing and flag Edit Inline set to true).
When I click in the link or in the button Edit Online Alfresco still opens the http editor for txt files showing the extrange symbols.

Any idea of what I am doing wrong?

Thanks a lot guys

In

web-client-config.xml in tomcat\webapps\alfresco\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco

I have this configuration:

    <!– the type of edit link to use, NOTE: inline editable will always take precedence –>
         <!– can be: http|webdav|cifs –>
         <edit-link-type>webdav</edit-link-type>‍‍‍

Re: How to edit online an office (OpenOffice/MS Office)?

t_broyer — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:40:20 GMT

In EditDocWebDavEvaluator and EditDocOnlineWebDavEvaluator (the code behind the "edit online" action and the now commented out "edit" action when edit-link-type is set to "webdav"), the documents are explicitly checked for not having the inlineEditable aspect ("inline" meaning here "through an editor integrated into the Alfresco Explorer", as for plain text and HTML fragments, which is somehow incompatible with editing through WebDAV).

Re: How to edit online an office (OpenOffice/MS Office)?

jlabuelo — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:47:41 GMT

Hey thanks a lot for the reply… but does this means that I will not be able to edit an office file online?… I will always have to download it, edit it, save it, and upload it to Alfresco? If not… any suggestion of how this can be done?

Cheers

Re: How to edit online an office (OpenOffice/MS Office)?

t_broyer — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:14:23 GMT

It means that you must not flag it as "inline editable".

Re: How to edit online an office (OpenOffice/MS Office)?

umeshcse3 — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:49:38 GMT

Hi,
I am having the same problem.
I am not able to open alfresco documents using webdav,Although I can copy the file from alfresco to local file system and then open it.
I am using alfresco 2.1 and windows Vista as its webdav client.

Can u tell me in brief what exact steps are required to do it.

Please reply ASAP.
Thanks in Advance.

Re: How to edit online an office (OpenOffice/MS Office)?

umeshcse3 — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 07:56:38 GMT

Hi all,

After investigation I found that it 'windows' WEBDAV limitation :

1) Alfresco webdav works fine with MS-OFFICE files (.doc.,.xls,.ppt).

i.e. using webdav feature of Alfresco we can online edit MS-OFFICE files
(.doc.,.xls,.ppt) without copying files on local system and then editing.

2) But other windows editor such as NOTEPAD and WORDPAD does not have inbuilt webdav-client support. Thus, files such as .txt,.rtf, etc. which are opened in these text editors are not online editable.