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External calls to AOS

gluck113 — Tue, 27 Jun 2017 15:46:03 GMT

Hello community, I have a question concerning external calls to AOS (Alfresco Office Services). By external calls I mean a business application that uses Alfresco as a purely backend repository, would like to be able to have an equivalent to "Online Editing" directly accesible in it.I tried copying

Re: External calls to AOS

mehe — Tue, 27 Jun 2017 16:28:49 GMT

You have just to build the MS URI schemes: Office URI Schemes

If you peek with the browser developer tools, you can see the uri in the network tab.

Opening (for edit) mydoc.docx from site mysite on my server would be something like

ms-wordfe|u|https://myserver/alfresco/aos/Sites/mysite/documentLibrary/mydoc.docx

Re: External calls to AOS

gluck113 — Wed, 28 Jun 2017 07:16:07 GMT

Thanks I found that information also shortly afterwords and your example works.

So this solution works for Office 2012 SP2 to 2016 (at least).

Since Microsoft has been known to change this protocol quite frequently we will see in futur.

I'll attach here the Microsoft description as PDF just in case... 🙂

Re: External calls to AOS

mehe — Wed, 28 Jun 2017 12:55:40 GMT

Seems to work with the 2010 Edition too

Re: External calls to AOS

cesarista — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 07:04:27 GMT

Hi Martin Ehe‌

This is very nice, and conceptually similar to the online edition with Libreoffice registering webdav protocol.

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Regards.

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