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Unable to preview the outlook message file (.msg) in Alfresco Share

hont_vn — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 10:54:43 GMT

Hi all,When I click to a Outlook message (.msg) in Alfresco Share (4.2.c), it's unable to preview with the message "The preview could not be loaded from the server". Anyone know how to configure or fix this issue in 4.2.c? I tried Google/Alfresco wiki/forum, but seemed this bug happened long time ag

Re: Unable to preview the outlook message file (.msg) in Alfresco Share

afaust — Sat, 27 Jul 2013 13:24:47 GMT

Hello,

the output in the log "Unsuported transformation attempted" says it all - conversion of Outlook MSG files is not supported by your Alfresco instance. I haven't looked into Alfresco 4.2 to closely to know if Outlook MSG files are now supported but until the latest 4.1.x, Alfresco by default can't handle MSGs, so I assume 4.2 can't as well as long as you don't configure your own, custom transformer.

Regards
Axel

Re: Unable to preview the outlook message file (.msg) in Alfresco Share

hont_vn — Mon, 29 Jul 2013 09:46:01 GMT

Hello Axel,

Thanks for your reply. Do you know how to configure custom transformer in order to support MSGs? I have tried the MediaViewers but it doesn't work.
https://code.google.com/p/share-extras/wiki/MediaViewers

Thanks,
Ho

Re: Unable to preview the outlook message file (.msg) in Alfresco Share

afaust — Mon, 29 Jul 2013 19:14:00 GMT

Hello,

I don't know of any ready-to-use transformers that you could simply configure. The MediaViewers addon certainly does not provide a transformer for Outlook message files.
There exist a few Java libraries that could be used to implement a content transformer (Apache POI HMSF, msgparser, Aspose.Email …), but you'd need to write the necesary Java code.

Regards
Axel