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I have trouble editing a word document in Activiti application

paiyyavj13 — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 20:19:09 GMT

I am opening a Microsoft word document which is part of a simple Review and Approve workflow, using the Open in Microsoft Button and the configurations are in place.The document opens in MS Word, I am able to edit it.... but I am unable to save it back to Activiti. The error message I get is that th

Re: I have trouble editing a word document in Activiti application

cjose — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 22:19:48 GMT

Do you have "Allow editing documents in Office" checkbox ticked on the form field configuration of Review Form?

Also, check if you have correct permissions on the folder that you configured in activiti-app.properties for the property "contentstorage.fs.rootFolder"

Re: I have trouble editing a word document in Activiti application

paiyyavj13 — Fri, 20 Jan 2017 08:11:29 GMT

Hi Ciju,

Thank you for your response, permissions was the issue.

I was logged in as an user with admin privileges locally on my laptop so I assumed I had permissions for the data folder, but I had to explicitly give permissions for my user on the folder(in Windows) to get this thing working...

Regards.

Re: I have trouble editing a word document in Activiti application

gets_sanket_pat — Mon, 12 Jun 2017 18:48:53 GMT

I tried giving the permission but still not able to edit.

Re: I have trouble editing a word document in Activiti application

cjose — Mon, 12 Jun 2017 19:29:48 GMT

Could you please confirm the version you are using?

Re: I have trouble editing a word document in Activiti application

gets_sanket_pat — Mon, 12 Jun 2017 19:45:43 GMT

I am using Alfresco activiti 1.6.0.

I also have created the new thread. It has more information.

Thanks