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Using Alfresco Share javascript functions from Aikau

daforce93 — Mon, 20 Jun 2016 16:08:52 GMT

Hi everyone,This question is more about Aikau than Share, but there wasn't a dedicated Aikau forum (that I could see), so I figured this would be the best place to post this question. Anyway, in my local Alfresco Share installation, there's an action for MS Word, PowerPoint, and Excel documents, cal

Re: Using Alfresco Share javascript functions from Aikau

afaust — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 08:26:36 GMT

Hello,

the onActionEditOnline function is part of the YUI-based document library components that will not be loaded in Aikau-based pages. You could technically include it manually, but bridging the Aikau-YUI divide can be quite a challenge especially given the dependencies that the YUI components bring in terms of event handling, expected data formats etc. It would be better to use a proper Aikau-based edit online functionality as part of a client-side service.
I have written such a service with edit online functionality in one of my recent projects. Unfortunately code ownership lies with the customer so I can't readily share the code…

Regards
Axel

Re: Using Alfresco Share javascript functions from Aikau

daforce93 — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 13:22:01 GMT

Thanks! What do you mean by "proper Aikau-based edit online functionality"?

Re: Using Alfresco Share javascript functions from Aikau

afaust — Thu, 23 Jun 2016 07:32:42 GMT

I mean writing an Aikau service that handles edit online functionality instead of trying to wrangle an existing, but largely incompatible construct (YUI document library function for edit online) in there.

Re: Using Alfresco Share javascript functions from Aikau

ddraper — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 09:47:44 GMT

We have been in the process of working through porting the remaining Document Library actions to Aikau, and the Edit Online action is one of these. This epic lists all the action issues, this would be the most relevant issue.

The Aikau team is a component (rather than feature) team and delivers requirement made by other feature teams. Because no feature team have required the edit online action we haven't implemented it yet.

We did actually take a look at this action during a couple of sprints, but it remains unfinished. If there is sufficient demand from the community to implement this action (before there is demand from within the Alfresco feature teams) then we will implement this.