topic Re: Microsoft Word as Content Type in Alfresco Archive

Microsoft Word as Content Type

mviswam — Tue, 22 May 2012 08:36:54 GMT

Is it technically possible to add Microsoft Word as custom content type and bring them as an option in the Create Content drop down list in Alfresco Share?This is one of our criteria to select a DMS for our Enterprise use…Please guide.

Re: Microsoft Word as Content Type

mrogers — Tue, 22 May 2012 11:00:59 GMT

To be pedantic :roll: MS word is a mime-type rather than a content type.   Content Type means something different in Alfresco.

You would normally create your content in Word and add it to alfresco over SPP or one of the other filesystem protocols.   Or drag and drop a word doc into share.

You could create a word doc on the server however that's probably not what you really want.    The point is that share is a web application but word is not.

Re: Microsoft Word as Content Type

mviswam — Thu, 24 May 2012 08:45:28 GMT

Noted.

In fact we want to create a word file from Alfresco Share. For eg. We have a word template for our official faxes and we intend our user to log into Alfresco share and create the document from here with the required fields like addressee and number etc as properties of the document and save it there.

And this document should be saved in a pre-defined folder only.

Can this feature be developed and achieved in Alfresco?

Re: Microsoft Word as Content Type

mrogers — Thu, 24 May 2012 09:19:30 GMT

Yes of course.

Re: Microsoft Word as Content Type

mviswam — Thu, 24 May 2012 11:10:22 GMT

In this case I would like to present a POC with a sample doc for the approval of this project.

Please guide me with few steps to achieve this.

Re: Microsoft Word as Content Type

zaizi — Thu, 24 May 2012 17:04:28 GMT

Already done. See http://www.slideshare.net/zaiziltd/tax-and-duty-manuals-publishing-for-revenue-commissioners. Slide 5 shows the screen show that pops that lets you select the MS Word template you want to select.

Ainga

Re: Microsoft Word as Content Type

mviswam — Tue, 29 May 2012 06:28:55 GMT

We need consultancy support in this matter to implement Alfresco as our DMS. We are in Dubai, and we would appreaciate if we could get any kind of support (on-site or remote) to achieve this feature.