Edit Online Everywhere

[cpo]

Sorry if this is discussed elsewhere.  I tried looking but didn't find anything.  The only time I have the edit online feature available in my install (4.2.d community) is when I browse to a site's document library and view the doc file from there.  If I go to My files, Shared files, or Repository to view a document the only option is Edit Offline.  I am running default install on a Ubuntu 12.04 server.  Is it possible to have the Edit Online option in all location?  Thanks

[afaust]

Hello,

the SharePoint protocol requires that a collaboration context (workspace) exists and Alfresco has mapped this collaboration context to a site. There is currently no way apart from a custom-compiled Alfresco SharePoint module (which I've implemented for a customer in the past) to use Edit Online outside of a site. But you could always use WebDAV to have a poor-mans alternative to SharePoint for online editing if you whip up a custom action that opens the WebDAV URL corresponding to an Office document in another tab / window (redirected to Office by your browser).

Regards
Axel

[joraff]

Thanks for the insight Axel. I like the direction the developers are heading, which I assume is to avoid cluttering up the sites lists with a lot of Home sites, but I wish they could have done this without loosing the sharepoint compatibility.

Do you know if any work is being done in trunk or 4.3 to establish a collaboration context for these two document libraries?

[marcus_svensson]

The alfresco roadmap states the following in the "next 6 months plan": * Support online Microsoft Office editing in the repository views

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Product_Roadmap

I wonder if this roadmap is up to date and still valid?

[patrickvanhoof]

Still no online edit available in My Files and Repository?

[afaust]

I believe the new AOS feature in Alfresco Enterprise does support Edit Online outside of a site. I haven't tried it myself but based on the evaluator configuration that action is set up to be used in My Files and Repository views.

AOS may be included in one of the next Community releases around end of this year.

[seth]

I too have been annoyed by this limitation, so I implemented a hack which makes it possible to perform "Edit Online" on any file, no matter if it is located on a site or not. The hack is available now as a share/repo module to install.
See http://alfrescoblog.magenta.dk/content/edit-online-outside-sites and https://github.com/magenta-aps/alfresco-edit-online-off-site for details.

I would leave to hear some feedback about this, as I have just developed it.