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Share, External SSO, and Sharepoint

joraff — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 17:33:15 GMT

Hi Everyone,I've successfully gotten the external authentication subsystem to auth /share and /alfresco (community 4.2.e), and now I'm working on trying to get the Sharepoint/Edit Online action to appear in Share.According to another forum post, the action checks appear to fail at the first step: a

Re: Share, External SSO, and Sharepoint

eswbitto — Fri, 08 Nov 2013 19:11:53 GMT

If the documents that you are working on are word documents then the "Edit Online" will show up. You won't get it for other file extensions like pdf.

If that isn't the case have you made sure you have a valid SSL certificate? Sharepoint likes to have a SSL connection from server to destination.

The way that we have it setup is with LDAP and apache doing the SSL instead of tomcat and have no issues with editing online.

It might help if you give server environment info.

Re: Share, External SSO, and Sharepoint

joraff — Mon, 11 Nov 2013 18:42:56 GMT

Turns out it was working all along, but I was accessing a file in the new My Files context, which alfresco does not map to a collaboration context for sharepoint.

Created a site, added an office doc and the option appears.

This is a bit of a bummer - I think our users would have used and enjoyed online office editing from the My Files and Shared Files contexts.

Re: Share, External SSO, and Sharepoint

102020 — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 20:46:00 GMT