topic Re: Usability | Editing Word Doc 'in-line' in Alfresco Archive

Usability | Editing Word Doc 'in-line'

nishantanchal — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 06:14:15 GMT

I have uploaded a word doc and a text file (added content) and marked them as 'inline-editable'.Now when I select the edit option for the .txt it opens in the Editor in Alfresco's UI, while I am unable to get the same when I try to 'edit' the word doc.Is it not possible to see a word doc open in 'M

Re: Usability | Editing Word Doc 'in-line'

lakshmi — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:50:04 GMT

I did like to know…if this feature is available in alfresco?

Re: Usability | Editing Word Doc 'in-line'

norgan — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:25:48 GMT

Hi there,
i assume you refer to what you can see in the internet explorer with linked documents, but those are not "inline editors" but the real office, just opened in the browser window. I guess would have to do two different things -
1) include an editor, which can work with office docs and map it to new mime types. I don't know, though, if such an webpage inline editor exists - well except for google docs, that is
2) remap the office documents to mime type text/plain 🙂 that would give you the raw file.

Norgan

Re: Usability | Editing Word Doc 'in-line'

sacco — Wed, 21 May 2008 01:04:43 GMT

Sorry, no time to explain at length, but you may find some useful
hints on this topic:

http://forums.alfresco.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=10919

Re: Usability | Editing Word Doc 'in-line'

lakshmi — Wed, 21 May 2008 04:25:07 GMT

Hi Norgan and Sacco,

Thanks for the response and suggestions, I got it by setting the edit-link-type to webdav.

Thanks again!

Re: Usability | Editing Word Doc 'in-line'

sacco — Wed, 21 May 2008 13:08:40 GMT

Thanks for the response and suggestions, I got it by setting the edit-link-type to webdav.

You're welcome, but be aware that this solution works only for Internet Explorer.
Something similar could be implemented for Firefox by adding functionality to the
Firefox Add-on to open links of a particular class by passing the URL directly to an
external program, but this has not yet been done. I will probably implement this
sometime this Summer if nobody else does it first (essentially, when it manages to struggle
to near the top of my list) and will, of course, post the results here if and when I get
it done.

Cheers

Re: Usability | Editing Word Doc 'in-line'

lakshmi — Thu, 22 May 2008 05:40:17 GMT

Hiii,

Thats really nice, I will need this too i guess. Thanks again!!

Re: Usability | Editing Word Doc 'in-line'

ernest — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:00:34 GMT

Hi
Has anyone found out how to Configure Webdav editing in Firefox,yet? i have done this in IE and it is Working Perfectly,
But when i try in Firefox it does not want to work it take me to Google docs…
Please help!

Re: Usability | Editing Word Doc 'in-line'

norgan — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:22:21 GMT

Hi ernest,

Hi
Has anyone found out how to Configure Webdav editing in Firefox,yet?

see Saccos comment : It does not work with Firefox that way (yet) - well as of mai that is

You're welcome, but be aware that this solution works only for Internet Explorer.
Something similar could be implemented for Firefox by adding functionality to the
Firefox Add-on to open links of a particular class by passing the URL directly to an
external program, but this has not yet been done.

You could use the "open as webdav" plugin for firefox, if you are using windows.
-> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/540

Regards, Norgan

Re: Usability | Editing Word Doc 'in-line'

jharrop — Mon, 04 May 2009 00:48:49 GMT

I've made a proof of concept of editing a docx inline.

You can see it at http://docx2web.appspot.com

As you'll see, it isn't integrated with alfresco yet…

Re: Usability | Editing Word Doc 'in-line'

jharrop — Tue, 05 May 2009 14:21:31 GMT

http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=18703 explains the steps needed to add an inline editor (as opposed to one which uses WebDAV).