MS Office plugin floating in 2007

[rscheele]

Hello,

the Office plugin works fine in 2007, except for the fact that it is floating instead of a task pane. Has someone any idea howto make it a 'static' pane like in 2003?

[mikeh]

It would need certain parts rewriting against the Office 2007 libraries instead of the 2003 versions.

You'd then also need to handle the two different windowing modes in 2007 (swapped in the Options dialog):

1 - single application window for multiple documents
One add-in instance which needs to update it's context depending on the currently active document

2 - multiple application windows; one..many per document
Many add-in instances (one per application window) which don't update when the currently active document changes

The beginnings of such a solution are in SVN (projects/extensions/AlfrescoOffice2007) but because the Office 2003 add-ins functionally work, this project was shelved. If I recall correctly, the Word 2007 version was pretty much complete (but very untested!). Feel free to continue it and contribute back! 

Thanks,
Mike