topic Re: Checkout to GoogleDocs failing in Alfresco Archive

Checkout to GoogleDocs failing

rockshore — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:26:06 GMT

Version: 3.4.dI wonder if someone has seen the following behaviour and can possibly lend some advice.Checkout to GoogleDocs appears to have stopped working just recently, with the following message appearing in Share:You cannot checkout 'google.xls' to Google Docs‍I've enabled debug mode and I get t

Re: Checkout to GoogleDocs failing

mikeh — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:48:46 GMT

Looks like Google has changed their service so that SSL is required. Try updating the URLs by adding these to the alfresco-global.properties file:

googledocs.url=https://docs.google.com/feeds/default/private/full
googledocs.downloadurl=https://docs.google.com/feeds/download
googledocs.spreadsheet.downloadurl=https://spreadsheet.google.com/feeds/download‍‍‍

Thanks,
Mike

Re: Checkout to GoogleDocs failing

rockshore — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 08:36:30 GMT

Thanks Mike, that worked a treat.

I came to the same conclusion after some fervent Googling, and found the following blog post by a Google Developer:

http://googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.com/2011/09/requiring-ssl-for-documents-list.html

Is it to be assumed that this will be patched in Alfresco 4?

Re: Checkout to GoogleDocs failing

fliot — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 10:22:24 GMT

Hi,

Regarding Google Docs integration,
Alfresco community 4.0.a is already outdated since Google now imposes SSL.

You can create simple Google Docs correcting .amp extensions with this tool :
http://code.google.com/p/acmt/wiki/HowTo

Regards,

Francois

Re: Checkout to GoogleDocs failing

sunnysharma — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 02:15:53 GMT

Thank you Mike. It worked for me.

Re: Checkout to GoogleDocs failing

zjao — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:52:30 GMT

It worked for me too, Thanks Mike