Alfresco Share Zoho Integration

[tschaefer]

I have the technical question how Zoho integration can achieved in Alfresco Share.
Which alfresco extension.xml is to be edited, and in which line and which tags the Zoho key is to be inserted for getting the zoho integration to work?

Please see these talk that Zoho integration is in priciple possible in Alfresco Share. http://www.slideshare.net/mmahon/zoho-alfresco-share-integration
Further, I intend to use Share directly and do not want to use a new Alfresco Client only for this task.
Or can one give me a hint which is a good alternative to the zoho online editing solution in Alfresco Share

Thank in advance for your information!

Best regards

Thorsten

[wabson]

Hi Thorsten,

Zoho does look like a good viewer, but in order to use it you must post the contents to their servers, in order for it to be viewable.

Since it's unlikely that you would want all content viewed using that viewer to be made public, I imagine you would want to use the 'view a private document' capability that they offer.

http://apihelp.wiki.zoho.com/View-a-Private-Document.html

The docs mention that private documents can only be read once before they expire. So unless you want to post a fresh copy of the doc each time someone views it (clearly bad), you would need to cache the transformed document within Alfresco, after it has been processed by Zoho.

The Thumbnail service in the repository provides a not too difficult way of doing this, but currently a thumbnail is limited to a single content object. I don't know enough about Zoho's format to say whether you could grab the resulting content from its API and store it in a single object, but I'd suggest that is the best option if you're able to do that.

Of course, you would also need to consider how to view the content within Share once you get it back, but that's easy in Alfresco 4 with a bit of client-side JS.

Lastly it's also worth checking Zoho's terms of use, since it's a hosted service they may have caveats about how you can use the content that you transform using their service, and they will certainly have usage limits.

Hope that helps, and do post back with how you get on.

Thanks,
Will

[ttownsend]

I'm also interested in online/inline editing with Alfresco Share, and found this thread after googling for Alfresco/Zoho Integration.

I've seen Zoho integrated well in KnowledgeTree, but my clear DMS preference is Alfresco CE.  All good point, Will, on examining Zoho's policies to ensure they are agreeable to what one wants to achieve.  No point in editing a document inline if the owners of the editor's API/service own or have any rights on it.

For online document editing, I really do appreciate how Alfresco works; pretty much seamlessly with MS Office (especially on a Mac), and I use it constantly.  There is occasional muddling about with temp/.tmp stuff, but this is a minor annoyance.
For inline (web-based) editing, I'm stuck.  This is a huge feature for me since sometimes I prefer not to (or can't) work with locally installed editors.  Sometimes I want nothing more to think about that the browser's cache rather than temp/.tmp artifacts.

If I remember correctly, Alfresco EE has Google Docs integration built in, but CE does not.  Perhaps it can be configured in Alfresco CE 4.x?

So, in support of one of the OP's questions, does anyone know of a successful integration of an inline editor with Alfresco?  The bigger question, of course, is "how do I achieve web-based editing of common office MIME (.doc/docx, .ppt/pptx, .xls/xlsx, OpenOffice/LibreOffice) types in Alfresco?

I'm really looking forwards to some interesting ideas or methods!

Cheers,
Trevor

[wabson]

Hi Trevor,

Editing via Google Docs has been improved recently and is due to appear in the Cloud version of the product in the next few weeks. It will be available in both the Enterprise and Community versions in due course.

Note, the previous Google Docs integration is provided in both Enterprise and Community, but the focus is on providing syncronisation as well as editing capabilities. The newer integration focuses on the editing capabilities only, so it sounds like this might be more helpful to you.

I'd suggest you keep an eye out the the new feature in the cloud product, and give it a whirl when available so you can see if it's the kind of thing you're looking for.

Thanks,
Will

[ttownsend]

Hi Will,

Many thanks for the reply - yes, it sounds like this approach is the sort of thing I'm looking to achieve.  Inline editing is pretty important for a lot of the work I'll be doing with clients and for myself.

I'll give it a spin - when will this all be coming down the release pipe?

cheers,
Trevor

[ttownsend]

Hi Will,

As a suplemental question, has anyone over at Alfresco tested potential integrations of web OS's (oneye/eyeOS, Feng Office, etc.) for inline editing of content in an Alfresco repository?  This would be an interesting especially if a web OS instance can be hosted in a widget/iframe/something inside of Share. 

Cheers,
Trevor

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