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Installing and Configuring OpenOffice for Alfresco

zipho — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 12:57:26 GMT

Hi! All I'm a new bee to Linux and Alfresco. I've installed Alfresco according to the guide on the README.txt file and it was successfull; now the problem comes when I have to include OpenOffice features in Alfresco. My Alfresco server is running Fedora Core 5, which comes with OpenOffice2.0.2; and

Re: Installing and Configuring OpenOffice for Alfresco

steve — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 17:11:08 GMT

Hello,

Take a look here:
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Installing_on_Linux

Also note that there are conversion issues in OpenOffice 2.0.2 that should be fixed in OpenOffice 2.0.3

Steve

Re: Installing and Configuring OpenOffice for Alfresco

zipho — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 07:26:59 GMT

Thank you Steve,

I followed the guide on the url that you gave me, and now my openoffice startup fine without Xwindow, but there is one other issue that I bumped into. When I set a rule to transform a content in Alfresco, openoffice applications do not appear as options in the drop-down list.

I hope you can make sense of what I'm trying to say.

Thank you again;
Zipho

Re: Installing and Configuring OpenOffice for Alfresco

zipho — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 12:20:10 GMT

Is there anybody with an insight to this, its been weeks trying to get openoffice to work with alfresco for document transformation, and it starts fine but as I indicated above, it doesn't get listed in the drop down list.

[root@ecm ]# ps -e
2309 ? 00:00:00 soffice
2328 ? 00:00:00 soffice.bin

Plz help, its kinda urgent……

Re: Installing and Configuring OpenOffice for Alfresco

steve — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 16:18:27 GMT

Hi,

Are you trying to convert to an OpenOffice document type?
If so, these conversions are not yet built into Alfresco.

You could take a look here about how you could add these yourself:
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Content_Transformations
and
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Simple_Customisations#Transformation_Mimetype

Hope this helps,

Steve