Hi,
I recently installed Alfresco 4.0d community edition on a Linux Debian server. As a client, I use a Linux desktop. The primary interface I'd like to use is Alfresco Share. My problem is that editing documents is quite complex:
- Download it to the local system
- edit it
- upload it again.
The flash uploader does not work, btw., it seems that the Linux flash plugin has some problems with it, so this does not ease the editing process.
However, what I did is mount the alfresco repository with either CIFS and/or WebDAV (DavFS) from my linux client, so I can see everything on a file system base. Therefore an ideal solution to my problem seems to be that Alfresco Share offers me an "edit" link, which points to the file in my mounted file system, something like:
file:///mnt/alfresco/site/documentLibrary/somefile.ods
This solution sounds very obvious to me, however, this is either not implemented or I can't find resource of how to do so. I would assume that this configuration is done on a per-user base, as not all users have their alfresco mounted on the same path, so the most simple solution would be some prefix for the download path that can be configured on a per-user base.
Or, maybe, there's some better way to do this? Or am I overlooking an even more obvious way to seamlessly edit document from a Linux client?
Any help is appreciated!
Best Regards,
Hermann
