Inline editing of Microsoft Office documents

[warrenzhai]

My company is looking to adapt a content management system at the department level.  One of the features we are looking for is inline editing of office documents.  Is there any possibility that Alfresco would support this in the near future?

[unknown-user]

double post sorry (forum reply displays an error each time, for me, even if the message is posted)

[warrenzhai]

ditto on the interest.

[gavinc]

Hi,

Here is the scenario where the edit link should open Office documents in edit mode.

1. The config item kev mentioned is set to "webdav"
2. The item is NOT set to be inline editable, this will take precedence
3. You are using IE
4. You have the "SharePoint.OpenDocuments.1" ActiveX object installed on your machine.
5. The file has an extension of .doc, .dot, .xls or. ppt

Furthermore, this will only work from the edit icon. The link in the view details page is a read-only link so it will not attempt to open the file in edit mode.

The handling of opening the file is done in /scripts/webdav.js if you want to investigate what is going on in there.

What version of Alfresco are you using?

[unknown-user]

Thank you for helping!

Presently, i use windows version of alfresco 1.2.1 (fresh install)

I checked what you point out.. it looks fine.

When i click the edit icon, it leads to the the checkout alfresco dialog, here is the edit icon html link :

<a href='#' onclick="document.forms['browse']['browse:act'].value='browse:_id104';document.forms['browse']['id'].value='870387b4-d9e3-11da-86c8-e9dc056ac461';document.forms['browse'].submit();return false;" class=inlineAction><img src="/alfresco/images/icons/edit_icon.gif" border=0 alt="Editer" title="Editer" align=absmiddle></a>‍

and then, even with correct web client config (webdav instead of http), and using IE, the link on the dialog is the following :

http://xxxxxxx:8080/alfresco/download/attach/workspace/SpacesStore/870387b4-d9e3-11da-86c8-e9dc056ac...‍

This does not make the document open itself using the Sharepoint activeX

When everything work, the webdav edit link is the first one, (edit icon in the Space) or the second one (checkout dialog) ?

[unknown-user]

I switched to linux debian, everything work as expected (see above)

The only settings i changed is the default behavior (webdav instead of http). I  ran alf_stop.sh and then again alf_start.sh, and now i can edit my Office documents inline.

Thank you! (im adding this on the bug report i raised)

[akshayakher]

Hello there,

I just went through this whole thread, it was just great to see that i will be able to edit office documents inline…so i followed the procedure step by step..

1. I added

<!– the type of edit link to use, NOTE: inline editable will always take precedence –>
         <!– can be: http|webdav|cifs –>
         <edit-link-type>http</edit-link-type>

in the file web-client-config.xml file

I have tried with http and also with webdav.

2. stopped and started the alfresco server.
3. Then when I clicked on the edit button of the document, there is no action.
4. So I went to the view details page, and made the document "Allow Inline Editing" even then "Edit Inline: No " shows NO.
5. After this when you click to edit the document, It takes you to the checkout page, which again does not solve the purpose.

I am going through the AJAX website to check the functionality, meanwhile if anybody has tried this and has been sucessful will be able to help me out.

Thanks
Akshaya

[akshayakher]

I have noticed one more thing, If I keep the EditInline feature NO, and then click on the edit icon. It asks me for the Alfresco DAV Server's Username and Passowrd.

Does anybody have any idea where can I locate this username and password.

Thanks
Akshaya

[schneika]

The Alfresco Roadmap 2007 speaks from a Office-Plugin. Are there more informations. is it possible to edit office-document inline?

[mikeh]

Hi,

The Office Add-In will integrate with Word 2003 (initally) and allow you to manage the current open document and the Alfresco repository - you won't need to launch the web client separately to check in/out, etc.

Thanks,
Mike