Online Editing of Microsoft Office Documents

[#1]

For editing Microsoft Office Documents I installed the MS Office SharePoint Protocol Support according to http://docs.alfresco.com/community/topic/com.alfresco.community.doc/tasks/SharePoint-install.html. Moreover I checked, that
the directory /webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/module/org.alfresco.module.vti/context exists. I also configured the alfresco-global.properties and added vti.server.external.port and vti.server.external.host.

I used IE to access the sites, but the action "edit online" is missing at all word documents.

I can't figure out the root cause, because there isn't any useful or complete documentation about the configuration of the online-editing feature.

Why is the "edit online" missing? And whats the root cause?

Thanks in advance

[linuxyeti]

I've worked out the chrome conuumdrum my self …

In chrome,

    Goto settings
    Advanced settings
    Content settings ( Under Privacy heading)
    Plug Ins
        Manage Exceptions
        Add [*.]wm-vms-alf-01.fq.dn:8080 and set to allow


Obviously, the hostname will require setting to your host accordingly

[midoscofield]

Hello,
I have the Same problem with the Edit Online on ALfresco 5.0.b,it works only on IE11.
So can you Explain to us the steps?
Thanks.

[linuxyeti]

Hi

If you have managed to get edit online working in IE, you are pretty closeto getting chrome to work. after that just carry out the above for chrome. I'm not a heavy user of chrome, or windows for that matter, I did end up runnig chrome as an administrator I think, the first time I noticed the ability to manage plugins.

Ahh, I missed a bit, Content settings is under the Privacy heading, even if Run Automatically is selected, it didn't work, until I added the site as an exception.

Cheers

Tony

[linuxyeti]

Hi All

I missed one step, from what I listed above

Create, or edit, {ALFRESCO_HOME}/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/vti-custom-context.xml

See attached :- Just rename it from vti-custom-context.txt to vti-custom-context.xml

[redraccoon]

Hi i was looking for an other problem but I saw the issue "missing online edit button"

I just had this problem today and I solved it by adding the missing amp "alfresco-aos-module-1.1.amp" If you can preview but not edit online it's this one you need, and as it's an official amp from alfresco you can download it on the nexus wich mean all you have to do is add the dependencie in the repo pom.xml like this

    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.alfresco.aos-module</groupId>
      <artifactId>alfresco-aos-module</artifactId>
      <version>1.1</version>
      <type>amp</type>
    </dependency>
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be carefull to don't put this one in "depedency management"

[gabriel_silva]

Hi Red, how are you?

Which directory this file is located?

Regards.