MS Office add-in and Office 2007

[aspa]

Hi,

I'm trying to use the Alfresco MS Office add-in with Alfresco 3.2.
The desktop environment includes Windows XP and MS Office 2007.
According to the Alfresco MS Office Wiki page the add-in should be compatible with MS Office 2007
but after installing it I don't see any sign of the add-in being available.
MS Office has ".NET Programmability Support" installed.

Is anyone succesfully using the add-in with MS Office 2007?
Were any special tricks required to get it working?

It appears that the MS Office add-in is not really part of the Alfresco roadmap, is it?

[mikeh]

Since Microsoft released their Sharepoint protocol and Alfresco now supports that interface natively, I can't see much further development time being allocated to the Office add-ins.

They do work with Office 2007 however. Make sure ALL instances of Word have shutdown when installing - that includes closing Outlook if you use Word for composing and reading e-mails.

Thanks,
Mike

[aspa]

Thanks for shedding some light on the future of the Office add-in and Sharepoint protocol support, Mike.
I re-installed the add-in and during the second installation the setup program installed the Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office (second edition runtime setup). After, that the add-in started working. There was a weird error message on the first startup though:

m_DefaultTemplate
wcservice/office/
OK

There's still CIFS, WebDAV and Sharepoint protocol support that can be used for MS Office integration.
Will CIFS and WebDAV be fully supported in the future?

[mikeh]

Please see this post for information about the debug pop-up: http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?p=80131#p80131

CIFS and WebDAV will always be natively supported by the Repository.

Thanks,
Mike

[pedro_kowalski]

As I travel through the forum I found that Alfresco developers are now interested in Share Point connector for Alfresco and left the Office Add-in as it is.

Does the Office add-in can be replaced with SP without any functionality deficency? I mean, can I for example (through SharePoint, from Office 2007) create new space, start new workflow, fill the meta-data of object, add categories, search for documents, etc?

Could anyone point what is the exact functionality of Alfresco SharePoint implementation vs Office Add-in?

Thanks in advance.