topic OpenOffice/Preview No Worky in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/openoffice-preview-no-worky/m-p/242731#M195861 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Guys, </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I'm really hoping you can help…&nbsp; Alfresco is running but won't talk to OpenOffice. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>My system once had all the pieces working fine. Then I decided to test backup/restore… so I backed up everything and removed Alfresco. Then I did a fresh install: </SPAN><BR /><SPAN> - Alfresco 3.2 CE</SPAN><BR /><SPAN> - Separate MySQL install</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>My Alfresco install included OpenOffice. However, once I got Alfresco running again, the OpenOffice preview function wasn't working. Checking the log, I found the dreaded:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>15:34:12,932 INFO&nbsp; [org.alfresco.config.JndiPropertyPlaceholderConfigurer] Loading properties file from class path resource [alfresco/alfresco-shared.properties]<BR />15:34:17,739 WARN&nbsp; [org.alfresco.util.OpenOfficeConnectionTester] An initial OpenOffice connection could not be established.<BR />15:34:17,741 INFO&nbsp; [org.alfresco.repo.management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] Startup of 'thirdparty' subsystem, ID: [default] complete<BR />15:34:18,208 INFO&nbsp; [org.alfresco.repo.admin.ConfigurationChecker] The Alfresco root data directory ('dir.root') is: C:\Alfresco\alf_data<BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><SPAN> </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Arrg!&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Ok, I've tried a lot of things without luck to get this running. Including updating my global-properties file:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR /># Sample custom content and index data location<BR />#————-<BR />dir.root=C:/Alfresco/alf_data<BR /><BR />#<BR /># Sample database connection properties<BR />#————-<BR />db.name=alfresco<BR />db.username=alfresco<BR />db.password=alfresco<BR />db.host=localhost<BR />db.port=3306<BR /><BR />#<BR /># External locations<BR />#————-<BR />#ooo.exe=C:/Alfresco/<A href="http://OpenOffice.org/program/soffice" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">OpenOffice.org/program/soffice</A><BR />#ooo.exe=C:\\Alfresco\\OpenOffice.org\\program\\soffice.exe<BR />ooo.exe=C:\\Program Files (x86)\\OpenOffice.org 3\\program\\soffice.exe<BR />#ooo.exe=C:/Program Files (x86)/OpenOffice.org 3/program/soffice.exe<BR />ooo.user=${dir.root}/oouser<BR />img.root=C:/Alfresco/ImageMagick<BR />swf.exe=C:/Alfresco/bin/pdf2swf<BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>As you can see, I've also tried installing OO separately and then pointing to it - no luck. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I've checked firewall settings:</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I have a tcp port open to 50500 (Openoffice)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I have a tcp port open to 8100 (Openoffice)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I have a program exception for C:/Program Files (x86)/OpenOffice.org 3/program/soffice.exe</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Any ideas????</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:38:14 GMT n0hr 2009-10-05T22:38:14Z OpenOffice/Preview No Worky https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/openoffice-preview-no-worky/m-p/242731#M195861 Guys, I'm really hoping you can help…&nbsp; Alfresco is running but won't talk to OpenOffice. My system once had all the pieces working fine. Then I decided to test backup/restore… so I backed up everything and removed Alfresco. Then I did a fresh install: - Alfresco 3.2 CE - Separate MySQL installMy Al Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:38:14 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/openoffice-preview-no-worky/m-p/242731#M195861 n0hr 2009-10-05T22:38:14Z Re: OpenOffice/Preview No Worky https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/openoffice-preview-no-worky/m-p/242732#M195862 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I have updated </SPAN><A href="http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Installing_and_Configuring_Alfresco_Community_Edition_3.2#OpenOffice" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Install and Configure Alfresco 3.2 Community Edition wiki page</A><SPAN>. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Hope it helps.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:58:41 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/openoffice-preview-no-worky/m-p/242732#M195862 rliu 2009-10-07T16:58:41Z